Carrier profile · USDOT 374303 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Elder Corporation

89 power unitsavg 7.8 yrLocal · 1 statesDES MONIES, IA94/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED CONDITIONALHAZMAT
Verified linkseldercorp.comFMCSA SAFER

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 10.0%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 — 10 vehicle and 18 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

16.7% · 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 11.1 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

18 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 89-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
89
Inspections · 24 mo
18
Annualized
≈9 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

8%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
12%
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 Driving21 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 172.301 Other violationOther1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 172.400 Other violationOther1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 31 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 36 total · 1 in 24 mo

36
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
8
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241001
20236016
20223012
20213003
20202002
20194004
20181011
20172002
20163013
20151001
20131011
20121001
20082002
20071001
20062012
20051011
20031011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 8, 2025IA00Yes
Jun 8, 2024IA00Yes
Jul 25, 2023IA00Yes
Jul 25, 2023IA00Yes
Jun 29, 2023IA00Yes
Jun 21, 2023IA01Yes
Jun 8, 2023IA00Yes
May 11, 2023IA00Yes
Oct 23, 2022IA01No
Jul 12, 2022IA00Yes
Apr 14, 2022IA00Yes
Oct 9, 2021IA00Yes
Sep 20, 2021IA00Yes
Sep 13, 2021IA00Yes
Sep 22, 2020IA00Yes
Aug 3, 2020IA00Yes
Oct 4, 2019IA00Yes
Aug 23, 2019IA00Yes
Aug 16, 2019IA00Yes
Jun 26, 2019IA00Yes
Oct 22, 2018IA01Yes
Aug 3, 2017IA00Yes
Apr 3, 2017IA00Yes
Aug 10, 2016IA00Yes
Jun 7, 2016IA00Yes