Carrier profile · USDOT 323557 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

The Empire District Electric Company

DBA LIBERTY

206 power unitsLocal · 2 statesJOPLIN, MO74/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY

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

Vehicle OOS 50.0%24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative

030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 2 vehicle and 2 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · latest 6-mo window

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. More resolved windows are needed to establish a trend. 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

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

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

≈0.0 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 206-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: 206
Inspections · 24 mo: 2
Annualized: ≈1 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

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

Vehicle Maintenance

2.4measure

SMS · per-BASIC

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 Driving3 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
393.51 Brake warning devicesVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 5 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 50 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2025	1	0	0	1
2023	1	0	0	1
2022	1	0	0	1
2021	2	0	1	1
2018	2	0	1	2
2017	3	0	1	3
2016	2	0	1	1
2015	2	0	1	2
2014	1	0	0	1
2012	2	0	1	2
2011	1	0	1	1
2010	1	0	1	1
2009	3	0	1	2
2007	2	0	0	2
2006	2	0	0	2
2005	3	0	2	3
2004	4	1	2	4
2003	2	0	0	2
2002	2	0	1	1
2001	1	0	0	1
1999	1	0	1	1
1998	1	0	1	1
1997	2	0	1	2
1996	1	0	1	1
1995	2	0	0	2
1994	3	0	0	3
1993	2	0	0	2

Date	State	Injuries	Tow-away
Sep 18, 2025	MO	0	Yes
Oct 9, 2023	MO	0	Yes
Jan 31, 2022	MO	0	Yes
Jun 10, 2021	OK	0	Yes
Apr 12, 2021	MO	2	No
Nov 2, 2018	KS	0	Yes
Oct 3, 2018	MO	2	Yes
Nov 7, 2017	MO	1	Yes
Jul 10, 2017	MO	0	Yes
Feb 2, 2017	MO	0	Yes
Jun 8, 2016	MO	0	Yes
Jan 29, 2016	MO	1	No
Apr 15, 2015	MO	0	Yes
Jan 14, 2015	MO	1	Yes
May 23, 2014	MO	0	Yes
Sep 4, 2012	MO	2	Yes
Feb 29, 2012	MO	0	Yes
May 30, 2011	MO	2	Yes
Dec 16, 2010	MO	2	Yes
Jul 27, 2009	MO	0	Yes
May 8, 2009	MO	0	Yes
Jan 22, 2009	MO	1	No
Oct 29, 2007	MO	0	Yes
Sep 17, 2007	MO	0	Yes
Dec 4, 2006	MO	0	Yes