Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 226751

SIEDHOFF DISTRIBUTING CO

UNION, MO 88

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 9.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 62 vehicle and 127 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 21.4 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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
0.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 77-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
77
Inspections · 24 mo
127
Annualized
64 / yr
Coverage
0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

3%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
18%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
25%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
17%
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 Driving20
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance5
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance3
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance3
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 03/02/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

16ELD device issues
5No log / no ELD
0False logs
0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 85 total · 7 in 24 mo

85
Total crashes
7
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
33
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262121
20254014
20242102
20235025
20223013
20211011
20206026
20194024
20186036
20172002
20161001
20153023
20144024
20131001
20122012
20113003
20104004
20091001
20081001
20074034
20062002
20051001
20032012
20022012
20011001
20004004
19991001
19983023
19973031
19961101
19954033
19942012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
03/17/2026IN12Yes
02/04/2026IN01No
10/13/2025MO01Yes
08/12/2025MO00Yes
02/18/2025MO00Yes
01/17/2025MO00Yes
10/30/2024KY10Yes
04/01/2024MO00Yes
11/10/2023MO00Yes
08/23/2023TN00Yes
05/25/2023CA02Yes
05/25/2023CA02Yes
01/27/2023IN00Yes
12/27/2022WI00Yes
09/14/2022MO00Yes
05/10/2022MO01Yes
12/22/2021IL01Yes
12/28/2020MO00Yes
10/06/2020MO00Yes
08/26/2020MO01Yes
06/04/2020OH00Yes
04/03/2020IA00Yes
01/04/2020MO01Yes
10/02/2019MO02Yes
06/14/2019MO00Yes