Carrier profile · USDOT 89212 · MC-630826 · Updated Jul 18, 2026

Earp Meat Company Inc

DBA EARP DISTRIBUTION

56 power unitsavg 6.5 yrRegional · 6 statesEDWARDSVILLE, KS88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-630826 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY

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 18.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 33 vehicle and 90 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · 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 8.0 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 Dec '24 · 7

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
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 56-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
56
Inspections · 24 mo
90
Annualized
45 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

10%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
4%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
46%
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 Driving16 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

11 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Sep 24, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

8ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 78 total · 4 in 24 mo

78
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
32
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20243003
20231001
20222002
20212022
20202002
20196016
20163013
20156026
20143023
20131001
20121011
20112021
20101001
20082021
20072012
20063003
20054124
20046026
20034114
20021011
20012012
19992012
19981010
19973021
19961001
19952020
19943033
19936025
19922001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 1, 2025MO00Yes
Nov 18, 2024KS00Yes
Oct 20, 2024KS00Yes
Sep 21, 2024KS00Yes
Jun 20, 2023MO00Yes
Feb 18, 2022IA00Yes
Jan 3, 2022KS00Yes
Jul 7, 2021MO01Yes
Jun 28, 2021KS01Yes
Dec 18, 2020KS00Yes
Jul 3, 2020MO00Yes
Dec 1, 2019KS00Yes
Oct 11, 2019MO00Yes
Sep 25, 2019KS00Yes
Jul 26, 2019MO01Yes
May 31, 2019MO00Yes
May 29, 2019KS00Yes
Dec 7, 2016MO00Yes
May 31, 2016MO00Yes
Jan 19, 2016IA01Yes
Dec 21, 2015NE02Yes
Aug 9, 2015NE02Yes
Jun 12, 2015KS00Yes
May 31, 2015MO00Yes
May 17, 2015MO00Yes