Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1726556

MIDWEST SOLID WASTE

ANKENY, IA 74

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 43.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 16 vehicle and 51 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

50.0% · 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 7.8 pts 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 79-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
79
Inspections · 24 mo
51
Annualized
≈26 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

33%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
89%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
19%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
47%
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 Driving112
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 4 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving8
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness7
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7
  • 393.134 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 93 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 43 total · 6 in 24 mo

43
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20253003
20241010
20232012
20224014
20211011
20202012
20197026
20182012
20173013
20163012
20144023
20122012
20095024
20081011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
05/07/2026IA00Yes
04/08/2026IA00Yes
03/18/2026IA00Yes
09/17/2025IA00Yes
04/14/2025IA00Yes
01/14/2025IA00Yes
04/01/2024IA01No
09/05/2023IA00Yes
07/12/2023IA01Yes
12/22/2022IA00Yes
12/16/2022IA00Yes
10/03/2022IA02Yes
06/02/2022IA00Yes
08/16/2021IA01Yes
10/26/2020IA00Yes
08/31/2020IA01Yes
12/17/2019IA00Yes
12/03/2019IA00Yes
11/12/2019IA00Yes
10/02/2019IA01Yes
08/29/2019IA01No
07/07/2019IA00Yes
06/04/2019IA00Yes
05/09/2018IA01Yes
02/20/2018IA00Yes