WCWASTE CONNECTIONS OF KANSAS INC 88

WASTE CONNECTIONS OF KANSAS INC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 8.9% (24-mo)101 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.8% (24-mo)125 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

10.3% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 5.2 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 244-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
244
Inspections · 24 mo
125
Annualized
≈63 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

10%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
51%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
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 Maintenance19 · 3 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving11
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance10
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance8
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance6
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance6 · 5 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance5
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 225 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 144 total · 5 in 24 mo

144
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
34
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20254004
20244004
20234004
20225115
20216016
20206016
20193023
20185025
20175015
20167017
20155015
20149019
20135015
20122012
20113013
20104014
20096045
20088018
20076026
20069138
20057017
20048118
20039049
20026026
20016016
20002002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
07/01/2025KS00Yes
05/23/2025KS00Yes
03/31/2025KS00Yes
01/24/2025KS00Yes
10/29/2024KS00Yes
06/21/2024KS00Yes
06/04/2024KS00Yes
03/20/2024KS00Yes
11/25/2023KS00Yes
09/21/2023KS00Yes
07/19/2023KS00Yes
02/16/2023KS00Yes
12/26/2022KS01Yes
06/17/2022KS00Yes
04/21/2022KS10Yes
04/15/2022KS00Yes
02/04/2022KS00Yes
11/10/2021KS00Yes
10/28/2021MO01Yes
10/01/2021KS00Yes
05/28/2021KS00Yes
05/25/2021KS00Yes
03/01/2021KS00Yes
12/10/2020KS00Yes
11/03/2020KS00Yes