Carrier profile · USDOT 211635 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Northern States Power Company

DBA XCEL ENERGY

1,128 power unitsavg 5 yrMulti-region · 8 statesMINNEAPOLIS, MN88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksxcelenergy.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 17.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 4.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 39 vehicle and 76 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 9.6 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

76 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 9

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 1,128-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
1,128
Inspections · 24 mo
76
Annualized
≈38 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

8%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
60%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
37%
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.

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 130 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 108 total · 9 in 24 mo

108
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
38
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20256026
20243003
20234014
20226036
20213012
20201011
20196026
20182002
20174024
20163103
20152002
20149048
20138018
20125015
20118037
20104024
20093023
20082002
20071001
20065025
20051011
20045015
20033023
20025023
20011011
20005143
19961001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 11, 2026MN00Yes
Mar 10, 2026MN00Yes
Dec 5, 2025MN00Yes
Nov 17, 2025WI00Yes
Aug 28, 2025MN01Yes
Jul 29, 2025MN01Yes
Jul 28, 2025MN00Yes
Apr 30, 2025MN00Yes
Sep 23, 2024MN00Yes
Jul 16, 2024MN00Yes
Mar 25, 2024MN00Yes
Dec 29, 2023MN00Yes
Nov 22, 2023MN00Yes
May 16, 2023MN00Yes
Jan 12, 2023MN01Yes
Dec 14, 2022WI00Yes
Nov 14, 2022MN00Yes
Sep 7, 2022MN01Yes
Aug 30, 2022MN00Yes
Jul 20, 2022MN01Yes
Apr 21, 2022MN01Yes
May 26, 2021MN00Yes
Mar 24, 2021MN01No
Feb 4, 2021MN00Yes
Mar 4, 2020MN01Yes