Carrier profile · USDOT 2529848 · MC-879056 · Updated Jul 29, 2026

Winds Transportation Inc

63 power unitsavg 4.5 yrNational · 22 statesMILTON, VT81/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-879056 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 22.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 83 vehicle and 198 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

22.2% · 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 3.2 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

189 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 14

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.

Well-monitored
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 63-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
63
Inspections · 24 mo
199
Annualized
≈100 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

93%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
72%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
45%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
54%
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 Driving134 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance40 · 12 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance19 · 14 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance16 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance15 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance15 · 3 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance10 · 6 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

57 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 13, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

40ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
9Drove over hours

Trending worse — 60% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 44 total · 11 in 24 mo

44
Total crashes
11
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
11
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20257007
20247037
20235035
20224124
20215015
20203003
20193013
20182002
20163013
20152002
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 10, 2026MA00Yes
May 22, 2026VT00Yes
May 11, 2026NJ00Yes
Dec 9, 2025NY00Yes
Nov 28, 2025VT00Yes
Oct 21, 2025MI00Yes
Oct 2, 2025VA00Yes
Jul 29, 2025MA00Yes
Jul 11, 2025VT00Yes
Mar 27, 2025SC00Yes
Dec 1, 2024NY01Yes
May 29, 2024VA00Yes
Apr 3, 2024TN02Yes
Feb 14, 2024VT00Yes
Jan 25, 2024GA00Yes
Jan 16, 2024NY00Yes
Jan 15, 2024TN01Yes
Nov 26, 2023NY01Yes
Oct 7, 2023PA00Yes
Sep 30, 2023VT01Yes
Feb 10, 2023VA01Yes
Jan 10, 2023PA00Yes
Sep 30, 2022NC02Yes
Jun 10, 2022NY01Yes
Apr 17, 2022NY00Yes