Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 2850190

MWS INTERMODAL SERVICES LLC

SAINT LOUIS, MO 94

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 16.7%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 — 18 vehicle and 28 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · latest 6-mo window▲ Rising

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending up 6.2 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.

Expected band
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.7 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 20-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
20
Inspections · 24 mo
28
Annualized
≈14 / yr
Coverage
≈0.7 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
2%
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 Driving22
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 5 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance9 · 3 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance7 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance5
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance3
  • 177.823 Other violationOther2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent 02/01/2024. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 15 total · 2 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241001
20231011
20211011
20205025
20192002
20183012
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/06/2025KS00Yes
11/11/2024KS00Yes
08/01/2023MO02Yes
02/23/2021MO02Yes
12/24/2020IN00Yes
10/21/2020MO00Yes
10/21/2020MO01Yes
08/26/2020MO01Yes
02/24/2020MO00Yes
09/30/2019MO00Yes
08/21/2019IL00Yes
11/08/2018MO00Yes
06/13/2018MO01No
05/09/2018MO00Yes
03/30/2017MO02Yes