Carrier profile · USDOT 2567961 · MC-897046 · Updated Jul 24, 2026

WIDER GROUP INC

172 power unitsavg 6.6 yrMulti-region · 14 statesHIGHLAND, IN87/100
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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 27.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 48 vehicle and 109 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

37.5% · 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 7.2 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

107 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '26 · 10

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
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 172-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
172
Inspections · 24 mo
109
Annualized
≈55 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

56%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
91%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.15measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
77%
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 Driving94 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance25 · 5 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance13 · 11 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance10 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance9 · 1 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 4 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

40 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 28, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

4ELD device issues
7No log / no ELD
14False logs
10Drove over hours

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

Crash history· 50 total · 6 in 24 mo

50
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262012
20254014
20236026
20227046
2021120212
20208028
20194014
20186026
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 16, 2026MN00Yes
Mar 3, 2026VA01Yes
Dec 9, 2025WI00Yes
Oct 18, 2025OH01Yes
Feb 19, 2025MN00Yes
Feb 15, 2025MN00Yes
Oct 9, 2023ID00Yes
Oct 3, 2023MT00Yes
May 29, 2023IL00Yes
Apr 28, 2023IL01Yes
Mar 29, 2023IL03Yes
Mar 9, 2023MO00Yes
Dec 15, 2022IA01Yes
Sep 28, 2022IL01No
Jun 21, 2022KS00Yes
May 11, 2022OK00Yes
Mar 2, 2022AR02Yes
Jan 18, 2022PA00Yes
Jan 9, 2022TN02Yes
Dec 11, 2021WV00Yes
Nov 22, 2021TX00Yes
Sep 24, 2021IN00Yes
Sep 22, 2021OH00Yes
Sep 16, 2021GA01Yes
Aug 26, 2021KY00Yes