Carrier profile · USDOT 940337 · MC-403978 · Updated Jul 17, 2026

KW International Inc

93 power unitsavg 6.2 yrMulti-region · 15 statesCARSON, CA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-403978 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 6.4%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 94 vehicle and 129 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

3.3% · 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.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

127 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '26 · 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 93-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
93
Inspections · 24 mo
129
Annualized
≈65 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

28%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
3%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
11%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
85%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
17%
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 Driving31 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance24 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 6 OOS
  • 393.30 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 392.82 Using a hand-held mobile phoneUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 3, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 78 total · 5 in 24 mo

78
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
20
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262022
20252021
20242012
20232002
20221011
20213013
20204034
20199019
20181001
20176126
20164004
2015151114
2014110111
2013130311
20121011
20062012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 23, 2026WI01Yes
May 27, 2026OH02Yes
May 1, 2025CT01No
Mar 26, 2025MI02Yes
Oct 15, 2024CA00Yes
Jun 4, 2024CA01Yes
May 1, 2023TX00Yes
Feb 13, 2023DE00Yes
Jan 19, 2022CA01Yes
Nov 18, 2021OH00Yes
Nov 15, 2021PA00Yes
Aug 27, 2021IL01Yes
Sep 28, 2020MI01Yes
Jul 9, 2020TN00Yes
Jun 15, 2020CA05Yes
Jan 28, 2020TX02Yes
Aug 13, 2019NJ00Yes
Jul 9, 2019VA00Yes
Jun 13, 2019NJ00Yes
May 23, 2019MI00Yes
Apr 4, 2019NC00Yes
Apr 3, 2019NY00Yes
Apr 1, 2019IL01Yes
Mar 14, 2019IN00Yes
Jan 11, 2019NJ00Yes