Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 679136

VAN METER INC

CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 100

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 13.2%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 — 38 vehicle and 70 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · 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 10.9 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

≈0.2 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Few roadside inspections for a 148-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: 148
Inspections · 24 mo: 70
Annualized: ≈35 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

18%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

Driver Fitness

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

33%

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 Driving21
393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance11
393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 6 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5
393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance4
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance4
393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance2
395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance2
395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance2

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 05/27/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues

0No log / no ELD

1False logs

0Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 10 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2023	1	0	1	1
2022	2	1	2	2
2021	1	0	0	1
2020	2	0	2	1
2017	1	0	0	1
2014	1	0	0	1
2006	2	0	1	2

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
12/19/2023	MN	0	1	Yes
11/29/2022	MN	0	2	Yes
04/27/2022	IA	2	1	Yes
04/27/2021	IA	0	0	Yes
10/09/2020	IA	0	1	No
02/26/2020	IA	0	1	Yes
08/11/2017	IA	0	0	Yes
02/04/2014	IA	0	0	Yes
10/23/2006	IA	0	1	Yes
08/16/2006	IA	0	0	Yes