Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 288471

WALTER E NELSON CO

PORTLAND, OR 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 7.5%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 5.3%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 67 vehicle and 94 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 4.5 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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.8 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 59-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 59
Inspections · 24 mo: 94
Annualized: ≈47 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

45%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

18%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

77%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

27%

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.

393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving21
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance18
391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness7 · 1 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness6 · 6 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 3 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5
172.202 Other violationOther3
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 02/19/2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues

3No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

Crash history· 15 total · 4 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	2	0	0	2
2025	1	0	0	1
2024	2	0	1	2
2023	1	0	1	1
2020	1	1	0	1
2019	1	1	1	1
2018	1	0	0	1
2016	2	0	0	2
2014	1	0	1	1
2012	1	0	0	1
2002	1	0	0	1
1997	1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
02/24/2026	OR	0	0	Yes
01/14/2026	OR	0	0	Yes
10/06/2025	WA	0	0	Yes
10/17/2024	WA	0	1	Yes
07/25/2024	WA	0	0	Yes
07/24/2023	OR	0	3	Yes
11/25/2020	OR	1	0	Yes
09/08/2019	OR	1	4	Yes
08/09/2018	OR	0	0	Yes
12/12/2016	OR	0	0	Yes
04/04/2016	OR	0	0	Yes
11/20/2014	OR	0	1	Yes
08/17/2012	WA	0	0	Yes
01/14/2002	WA	0	0	Yes
01/21/1997	OR	0	2	Yes