Carrier profile · USDOT 3063794 · MC-56820 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Northwest Alabama Transport Inc

DBA NWA TRANSPORT

23 power unitsavg 10.9 yrRegional · 3 statesMUSCLE SHOALS, AL80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-56820 ACTIVE
Verified linksnwalatransport.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 58.3%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 — 12 vehicle and 25 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 36.3 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

24 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 3

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
≈0.5 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 23-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
23
Inspections · 24 mo
25
Annualized
≈13 / yr
Coverage
≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

70%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
34%
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 Driving23 · 0 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.104 Cargo securement — tiedownsVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Nov 2, 2023. 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
0Drove over hours

Crash history· 15 total · 6 in 24 mo

15
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20255014
20241010
20221001
20211001
20203003
20193013
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Apr 21, 2026AL00Yes
Sep 17, 2025AL00Yes
Jul 22, 2025TN00Yes
Apr 28, 2025TN00Yes
Apr 16, 2025KY00Yes
Apr 2, 2025TN01No
Feb 29, 2024TN02No
Jan 25, 2022AR00Yes
Nov 8, 2021AL00Yes
Oct 13, 2020KY00Yes
Jul 23, 2020NY00Yes
Apr 14, 2020OK00Yes
Sep 19, 2019LA00Yes
Jul 24, 2019WV01Yes
May 21, 2019KS00Yes