Carrier profile · USDOT 2451293 · MC-846202 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Cold Way Transportation LLC

33 power unitsavg 6.7 yrMulti-region · 13 statesEL PASO, TX82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-846202 ACTIVERATED CONDITIONAL
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Safety

Roadside out-of-service rates versus the national benchmark, inspection and crash trends, decoded violation themes, and ELD / hours-of-service integrity — the full safety picture behind the verdict.

Out-of-service rate· 24-mo cumulative · vs national

Vehicle OOS 6.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 47 vehicle and 95 driver inspections over 24 months.

Vehicle OOS rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 4.1 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark uses the same metric and is shown on the chart.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

90 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 8

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS

Monthly FMCSA roadside inspections across the 24 charted calendar months. Bars show level-qualified vehicle and driver populations; one inspection can qualify for both. The line shows inspections with any out-of-service result.

Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal

Inspection coverage

How heavily FMCSA inspects this fleet for its size — it tells you how much to trust the safety signals above. Thin coverage on a young authority is a fraud signal nobody else surfaces.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 33-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
33
Inspections · 24 mo
95
Annualized
≈48 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

70%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
96%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
89%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
Vehicle Maintenance
Vektor peer est.

Percentile = standing among same-exposure peers (higher = worse). FMCSA publishes percentiles for only some carriers (shown official); elsewhere we show a Vektor peer-percentile estimate, or the absolute SMS measure when there are too few inspections to rank.

Violation themes· decoded · grouped by BASIC

What this carrier actually gets cited for — FMCSA violation codes decoded into plain English, ranked by frequency.

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving48 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance28 · 12 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance19 · 1 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance12 · 2 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 5 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness5 · 5 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

62 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 28, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
6No log / no ELD
22False logs
12Drove over hours

Trending worse — 79% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 29 total · 7 in 24 mo

29
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20244024
20232022
20225105
20213003
20204004
20193003
20182021
20162012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 6, 2026GA00Yes
Oct 31, 2025NM01Yes
Jun 18, 2025IL00Yes
May 25, 2025TX00Yes
Nov 14, 2024NM00Yes
Oct 2, 2024AR00Yes
Sep 25, 2024LA02Yes
Jun 27, 2024TX01Yes
Oct 24, 2023AL01Yes
Feb 14, 2023TX01Yes
Dec 19, 2022MS00Yes
Nov 27, 2022TX00Yes
Feb 2, 2022CO00Yes
Jan 8, 2022IA00Yes
Jan 8, 2022NM10Yes
May 4, 2021TN00Yes
Feb 14, 2021TX00Yes
Feb 8, 2021IA00Yes
Dec 6, 2020TX00Yes
Dec 1, 2020CO00Yes
Oct 12, 2020TX00Yes
Aug 26, 2020CO00Yes
Oct 4, 2019LA00Yes
Jun 29, 2019CO00Yes
Mar 8, 2019TX00Yes