Carrier profile · USDOT 854215 · MC-376623 · Updated Jun 27, 2026

Midwest Transport Specialists Inc

25 power unitsavg 5.5 yrMulti-region · 14 statesKANSAS CITY, KS81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-376623 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksmidwestts.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 23.5%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 — 17 vehicle and 39 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

42.9% · 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

37 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '25 · 5

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
≈0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 25-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
25
Inspections · 24 mo
39
Annualized
≈20 / yr
Coverage
≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

51%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
44%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
51%
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 Driving18 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

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

4ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
3False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 41 total · 2 in 24 mo

41
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
22
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20252002
20243003
20232012
20211001
20208068
20183033
20173113
20154044
20142012
20135115
20121001
20111011
20102011
20092012
20072022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 6, 2025CA00Yes
Sep 17, 2025NE00Yes
Aug 8, 2024KS00Yes
Feb 29, 2024IN00Yes
Jan 23, 2024MO00Yes
Jul 27, 2023MO01Yes
Jan 30, 2023MO00Yes
Mar 26, 2021MO00Yes
Nov 25, 2020KY00Yes
Oct 13, 2020NE01Yes
Aug 21, 2020IA01Yes
Aug 11, 2020NE02Yes
Aug 10, 2020NJ01Yes
May 15, 2020CO01Yes
Mar 15, 2020AL01Yes
Jan 14, 2020KY00Yes
Jun 5, 2018MO01Yes
Mar 1, 2018MO01Yes
Feb 26, 2018KS02Yes
Oct 19, 2017TN00Yes
Jun 11, 2017VA10Yes
May 12, 2017TN01Yes
Dec 10, 2015IA01Yes
Mar 13, 2015NJ01Yes
Mar 12, 2015TX01Yes