Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1759992

GREG HANSON

KARLSTAD, MN 87

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 30.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 40 vehicle and 88 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

35.3% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

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

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 28-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
28
Inspections · 24 mo
88
Annualized
≈44 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

62%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
75%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
20%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
75%
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.

  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance25 · 8 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving22
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance14
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance14 · 12 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance13 · 5 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance12 · 3 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance7

ELD & hours-of-service

42 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/16/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

22ELD device issues
9No log / no ELD
1False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 82% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 25 total · 3 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
3
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20251001
20241001
20231001
20223003
20211001
20202002
20172012
20163012
20151001
20142012
20122002
20112002
20101011
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/21/2026MN00Yes
05/14/2026OH01Yes
01/19/2025NM00Yes
04/22/2024NY00Yes
04/24/2023AR00Yes
06/30/2022MN00Yes
06/03/2022TN00Yes
06/02/2022TX00Yes
01/14/2021MN00Yes
10/29/2020IL00Yes
07/25/2020MT00Yes
06/22/2017IN00Yes
01/07/2017MN01Yes
11/22/2016MN00Yes
07/14/2016SD00Yes
02/24/2016MN01No
08/10/2015ND00Yes
02/05/2014TX00Yes
01/22/2014PA02Yes
07/13/2012MN00Yes
03/19/2012AL00Yes
11/29/2011MN00Yes
08/02/2011MN00Yes
01/25/2010ND01Yes
10/29/2009SD01Yes