Carrier profile · USDOT 205160 · MC-158798 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Great Plains Trucking Inc

DBA GREAT PLAINS TRUCKING

85 power unitsavg 3.7 yrNational · 39 statesSALINA, KS88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-158798 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT

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 7.5%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 — 53 vehicle and 114 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

14.3% · 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 3.2 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

111 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Aug '25 · 11

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
0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 85-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
85
Inspections · 24 mo
114
Annualized
57 / yr
Coverage
0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

24%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
24%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
8%
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 Driving34 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance4 · 3 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.80 Rear-vision mirrorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

4 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Oct 6, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

2ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 120 total · 5 in 24 mo

120
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
6
Fatal
41
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254114
20241010
20237027
20222002
20218218
20206036
20193123
20186026
20174014
20164004
20156025
20146006
20134014
20122002
20111001
20101111
20096006
20082022
20074014
20064034
20054034
20042102
20034013
20023022
20013013
20006054
19995014
19971010
19961001
19955023
19944013
19921011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 30, 2025MO00Yes
Jun 28, 2025NE01Yes
Feb 3, 2025TX10Yes
Jan 15, 2025KS00Yes
Dec 19, 2024MO01No
Dec 14, 2023MO00Yes
Nov 21, 2023GA00Yes
Nov 3, 2023IN00Yes
Sep 26, 2023VA00Yes
Jun 28, 2023KS01Yes
May 15, 2023IA00Yes
Mar 28, 2023OR01Yes
Sep 20, 2022IL00Yes
Mar 3, 2022IA00Yes
Jul 26, 2021VA00Yes
Jun 21, 2021MO00Yes
Jun 4, 2021KS10Yes
Mar 30, 2021KS00Yes
Mar 16, 2021OK00Yes
Feb 25, 2021IL00Yes
Jan 13, 2021WA00Yes
Jan 4, 2021ME12Yes
Nov 25, 2020IA00Yes
Jul 27, 2020WY01Yes
Jun 19, 2020CO00Yes