Carrier profile · USDOT 49717 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Northern Indiana Public Service Company

DBA NIPSCO

139 power unitsLocal · 2 statesMERRILLVILLE, IN88/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN

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 — 6 vehicle and 12 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 36.7 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

9 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 2

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.

Thin coverage

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.0 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 139-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: 139
Inspections · 24 mo: 12
Annualized: ≈6 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

30%

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 Driving8 · 0 OOS
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
393.110 Cargo securement — number of tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
390.19 Unified registration / MCS-150Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 13 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 106 total · 3 in 24 mo

106

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025	2	0	1	2
2024	2	0	0	2
2023	8	0	4	7
2022	6	0	3	6
2021	5	0	0	5
2020	4	0	1	4
2019	4	0	0	4
2018	5	0	1	5
2017	3	0	1	3
2016	5	0	0	5
2015	5	0	1	5
2014	3	1	2	3
2013	2	0	1	2
2012	1	0	1	1
2011	2	0	1	2
2010	2	0	0	2
2009	3	0	1	3
2008	9	2	4	9
2007	1	0	0	1
2006	2	0	0	2
2005	4	0	3	4
2004	2	0	0	2
2003	6	2	4	6
2002	7	0	3	6
2001	4	0	2	4
1999	3	0	2	3
1998	3	0	3	2
1997	2	0	1	2
1996	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
Sep 12, 2025	IN	0	Yes
Apr 1, 2025	IN	1	Yes
Nov 18, 2024	IN	0	Yes
Mar 17, 2024	IN	0	Yes
Oct 4, 2023	IN	0	Yes
Aug 16, 2023	IN	1	No
Aug 4, 2023	IN	0	Yes
Jun 21, 2023	IN	0	Yes
Jun 21, 2023	IN	0	Yes
Jun 18, 2023	IN	1	Yes
Jun 18, 2023	IN	1	Yes
Jan 30, 2023	IN	1	Yes
Oct 18, 2022	IN	0	Yes
Sep 26, 2022	IN	1	Yes
Sep 2, 2022	IN	0	Yes
Jul 2, 2022	IN	0	Yes
Jun 1, 2022	IN	1	Yes
Mar 11, 2022	IN	1	Yes
Nov 2, 2021	IN	0	Yes
Jul 2, 2021	IN	0	Yes
May 21, 2021	IN	0	Yes
Apr 17, 2021	IN	0	Yes
Jan 2, 2021	IN	0	Yes
Oct 30, 2020	IN	0	Yes
Aug 13, 2020	IN	0	Yes