Carrier profile · USDOT 1407098 · MC-597961 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

MICHAEL W HALTER LLC

DBA MIKE HALTER TRUCKING

4 power unitsavg 10.7 yrMulti-region · 8 statesSPRINGFIELD, MN82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-597961 ACTIVEHAZMAT
Verified linksmikehaltertrucking.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 —24-mo cumulative
050%
Driver OOS 20.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 10 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

9 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Nov '25 · 2

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 4-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
4
Inspections · 24 mo
10
Annualized
≈5 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

96%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
52%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
50%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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 Driving15 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 1 OOS
  • 391.15 Driver qualificationsDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 21, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 10 total · 1 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
1
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241001
20201011
20161011
20151011
20141011
20131001
20121011
20112012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Nov 14, 2025IA00Yes
Jan 9, 2024MO00Yes
Mar 10, 2020MN02Yes
Sep 14, 2016KS02Yes
Sep 20, 2015MN01Yes
Oct 25, 2014VA01Yes
Jul 1, 2013NE00Yes
Aug 22, 2012SD01Yes
May 27, 2011MN00Yes
May 19, 2011UT02Yes