Carrier profile · USDOT 834420 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Waste Connections of Colorado Inc

480 power unitsavg 6.1 yrLocal · 2 statesDENVER, CO88/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkswcnx.orgFMCSA SAFER

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 9.8%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 2.7%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 41 vehicle and 73 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 5.2 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

73 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 8

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 480-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
480
Inspections · 24 mo
73
Annualized
≈37 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
.03measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
42%
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 Driving31 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
  • 392.9 Failure to secure load / cargo not securedUnsafe Driving3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.134 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 111 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 103 total · 8 in 24 mo

103
Total crashes
8
In last 24 mo
5
Fatal
25
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20254004
20246026
2023103210
20226026
20213023
20204013
20197137
20185105
20174024
20163013
20155015
20144023
20133012
20126016
20111011
20106016
20093003
20084014
20075005
20053003
20042002
20031011
20022002
20013003
20001010
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 16, 2026CO00Yes
Feb 21, 2026CO00Yes
Sep 26, 2025CO00Yes
Sep 22, 2025CO00Yes
May 28, 2025CO00Yes
Feb 10, 2025CO00Yes
Nov 19, 2024CO00Yes
Sep 9, 2024CO00Yes
Aug 12, 2024CO00Yes
Apr 8, 2024CO01Yes
Feb 29, 2024CO00Yes
Jan 25, 2024CO01Yes
Nov 2, 2023CO00Yes
Oct 30, 2023CO00Yes
Oct 5, 2023CO11Yes
Aug 21, 2023CO00Yes
Aug 10, 2023CO00Yes
Aug 1, 2023CO00Yes
Jul 10, 2023CO00Yes
May 30, 2023CO11Yes
May 25, 2023CO00Yes
Apr 6, 2023CO10Yes
Nov 4, 2022CO00Yes
Jul 20, 2022CO00Yes
Jun 22, 2022CO00Yes