Carrier profile · USDOT 1906875 · MC-684301 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

USA Trucking LLC

47 power unitsavg 6.9 yrNational · 30 statesWATERLOO, IA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-684301 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 17.9%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 — 84 vehicle and 170 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

8.0% · 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 12.3 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

163 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '25 · 14

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.

Heavily inspected
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.8 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Among the more heavily-inspected carriers for its size — abundant roadside signal. Coverage isn't the question here; the out-of-service and crash record is.
Registered power units
47
Inspections · 24 mo
170
Annualized
≈85 / yr
Coverage
≈1.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

75%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
63%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
49%
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 Driving30 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 12 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance17 · 5 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

33 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 10, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

20ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
6False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 62 total · 5 in 24 mo

62
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262112
20252002
20241011
20231001
20224124
20216026
20201111
2015120112
20149029
20139019
20126026
20115005
20103003
20091001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 19, 2026AR11Yes
Jan 16, 2026SD00Yes
Sep 19, 2025WI00Yes
May 21, 2025OK00Yes
Dec 20, 2024WI01Yes
Jan 5, 2023IA00Yes
Nov 6, 2022MO10Yes
Jul 16, 2022TN02Yes
Apr 15, 2022MN00Yes
Apr 13, 2022MN01Yes
Dec 23, 2021MD00Yes
Nov 11, 2021SD00Yes
Sep 3, 2021ND00Yes
Mar 31, 2021OK01Yes
Jan 14, 2021MO00Yes
Jan 13, 2021OK01Yes
Oct 10, 2020KY15Yes
Nov 12, 2015MO00Yes
Aug 18, 2015IN00Yes
Jul 16, 2015WV00Yes
Jun 24, 2015GA02Yes
Jun 19, 2015SD00Yes
Jun 16, 2015AR00Yes
May 13, 2015KY00Yes
Mar 5, 2015TX00Yes