Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 623172

NTS LLC

KANSAS CITY, KS 86

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 75.0%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 — 4 vehicle and 7 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 14.0 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 13-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
13
Inspections · 24 mo
7
Annualized
≈4 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
79%
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.

  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance6 · 4 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving4
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance1
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 14 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 16 total · 0 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20231011
20171011
20164023
20112011
20101010
20091001
20061001
20042012
19982012
19971010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/19/2023KS01Yes
05/03/2017KS01Yes
12/09/2016KS00Yes
10/12/2016KS01No
09/20/2016CO01Yes
05/16/2016KS00Yes
10/28/2011KS00Yes
05/13/2011MO01No
01/23/2010PA01No
03/19/2009MO00Yes
05/19/2006KS00Yes
12/11/2004MO00Yes
08/18/2004KS01Yes
04/03/1998MO02Yes
02/05/1998MO00Yes
06/03/1997KS02No