Carrier profile · USDOT 827290 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Northwest Respiratory Services LLC

48 power unitsavg 7.4 yrMulti-region · 9 statesEAGAN, MN100/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORYHAZMAT
Verified linksnwrespiratory.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 9.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 88 vehicle and 98 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

10.5% · 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 7.7 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

94 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '25 · 10

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 48-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
48
Inspections · 24 mo
98
Annualized
≈49 / yr
Coverage
≈1.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

15%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
29%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
2%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
26%
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 Driving34 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 172.516 Other violationOther6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 177.817 Other violationOther5 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.81 HornVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness3 · 3 OOS
  • 177.834 Other violationOther3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 136 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 13 total · 0 in 24 mo

13
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
3
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20222002
20212012
20181001
20171001
20162002
20151001
20121001
20081011
20042012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 19, 2022WI00Yes
Apr 26, 2022MN00Yes
Jul 2, 2021MN00Yes
May 6, 2021MN01Yes
Dec 10, 2018MN00Yes
Mar 7, 2017MN00Yes
Nov 3, 2016NE00Yes
Sep 2, 2016MN00Yes
Sep 25, 2015MN00Yes
Oct 16, 2012MN00Yes
Feb 14, 2008MN01Yes
Dec 11, 2004IA01Yes
Oct 7, 2004MN00Yes