Carrier profile · USDOT 1347420 · MC-592418 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Prairie States Trucking Inc

67 power unitsavg 9.6 yrRegional · 5 statesSIOUX FALLS, SD86/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-592418 ACTIVE
Verified linksprairiestatestrucking.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 53.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 13 vehicle and 47 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

20.0% · 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 81.4 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

47 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 7

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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 67-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
67
Inspections · 24 mo
49
Annualized
≈25 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

33%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
19%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
70%
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
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 7 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance4 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 62 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 10 total · 5 in 24 mo

10
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
1
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20255005
20212002
20151011
20141001
20071001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Oct 21, 2025SD00Yes
Oct 1, 2025SD00Yes
Jul 8, 2025SD00Yes
May 15, 2025SD00Yes
Mar 26, 2025SD00Yes
Nov 3, 2021SD00Yes
Apr 29, 2021SD00Yes
Aug 25, 2015SD01Yes
Dec 29, 2014SD00Yes
Jun 18, 2007SD00Yes