Carrier profile · USDOT 244002 · MC-174127 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Mid-western Car Carriers Inc

128 power unitsavg 5.7 yrNational · 17 statesKANSAS CITY, MO81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-174127 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
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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 28.9%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 — 38 vehicle and 101 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 3.8 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

97 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 9

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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 128-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
128
Inspections · 24 mo
101
Annualized
≈51 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

47%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
41%
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 Driving83 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 7 OOS
  • 393.128 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

15 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Sep 19, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

14ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
1False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 90 total · 11 in 24 mo

90
Total crashes
11
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
28
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20257017
20247017
20235005
20225025
20218038
20205025
20193013
20182002
20174004
20153023
20145015
20135134
20113013
20101010
20082002
20073023
20063013
20053013
20045025
20032012
20021001
20012011
20001001
19993013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 26, 2026MO00Yes
Feb 10, 2026MS01Yes
Dec 16, 2025MI01Yes
Nov 20, 2025MO00Yes
Sep 29, 2025MI00Yes
Aug 7, 2025MI00Yes
Jul 15, 2025AL00Yes
May 25, 2025MS00Yes
Feb 25, 2025MO00Yes
Dec 13, 2024MI00Yes
Sep 18, 2024IN00Yes
Jul 9, 2024AR00Yes
Jun 24, 2024IL00Yes
Jun 12, 2024MO00Yes
Jun 2, 2024MI01Yes
May 28, 2024MO00Yes
Dec 14, 2023MO00Yes
Dec 10, 2023GA00Yes
Dec 1, 2023SC00Yes
Jun 8, 2023MI00Yes
Jan 3, 2023MO00Yes
Dec 8, 2022LA00Yes
Nov 22, 2022IL00Yes
Mar 3, 2022MO04Yes
Mar 2, 2022TN01Yes