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Midwest Solid Waste

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DBA ANKENY SANITATION INC

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN

Vektor Rating VR

74/100

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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 38.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 12.8%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

24-mo population · 13 vehicle / 39 driver checks

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

50.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling
How to read this trend

Vehicle-level inspections resulting in a vehicle OOS order, pooled over each trailing six-month window. Trending down 2.6 pts across the window. The national vehicle benchmark measures the same population.

Roadside inspection history· 24 calendar months · current month partial

37 inspections · Dec '24–Nov '26

Vehicle-levelDriver-levelAny OOS
How to read monthly counts

Monthly FMCSA records across 24 calendar months, including the current partial month. This calendar window differs from the rolling day-level inspection summary. Vehicle and driver populations can overlap within one inspection. The line shows inspections with any OOS result.

Inspection coverage· annual inspections / registered power unit

Annual inspections per registered power unit.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.2 / 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.
Registered power units
79
Inspections · 24 mo
39
Annualized
≈20 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Nov 2026

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

Recorded violations · ranked by frequency

  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving120 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance10 · 4 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
  • 393.134 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness3 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 96 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 43 total · 6 in 24 mo

Total crashes
In last 24 mo
Fatal
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20253003
20241010
20232012
20224014
20211011
20202012
20197026
20182012
20173013
20163012
20144023
20122012
20095024
20081011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 7, 2026IA00Yes
Apr 8, 2026IA00Yes
Mar 18, 2026IA00Yes
Sep 17, 2025IA00Yes
Apr 14, 2025IA00Yes
Jan 14, 2025IA00Yes
Apr 1, 2024IA01No
Sep 5, 2023IA00Yes
Jul 12, 2023IA01Yes
Dec 22, 2022IA00Yes
Dec 16, 2022IA00Yes
Oct 3, 2022IA02Yes
Jun 2, 2022IA00Yes
Aug 16, 2021IA01Yes
Oct 26, 2020IA00Yes
Aug 31, 2020IA01Yes
Dec 17, 2019IA00Yes
Dec 3, 2019IA00Yes
Nov 12, 2019IA00Yes
Oct 2, 2019IA01Yes
Aug 29, 2019IA01No
Jul 7, 2019IA00Yes
Jun 4, 2019IA00Yes
May 9, 2018IA01Yes
Feb 20, 2018IA00Yes