Carrier profile · USDOT 748112 · MC-440102 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Dan Welch Trucking Inc

18 power unitsavg 9.6 yrRegional · 3 statesHAMILTON, OH94/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-440102 ACTIVE
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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 22.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 9 vehicle and 15 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 27.8 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

15 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 4

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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 18-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
18
Inspections · 24 mo
15
Annualized
≈8 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

22%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
49%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
84%
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 Driving15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 2 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving5 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.19 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Dec 9, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 18 total · 4 in 24 mo

18
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252002
20242011
20231011
20203012
20192002
20162022
20151001
20141011
20121001
20051001
20031010
20001010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 14, 2025KY00Yes
Feb 14, 2025KY00Yes
Dec 20, 2024OH00Yes
Aug 29, 2024OH02No
Feb 9, 2023OH02Yes
Nov 21, 2020OH02No
Apr 12, 2020KY00Yes
Jan 3, 2020OH00Yes
Jul 25, 2019KY00Yes
May 14, 2019OH00Yes
Sep 28, 2016OH01Yes
Apr 15, 2016OH01Yes
Oct 2, 2015OH00Yes
Jan 24, 2014KY02Yes
Aug 24, 2012OH00Yes
Jan 21, 2005KY00Yes
Jul 8, 2003OH01No
Mar 10, 2000OH01No