Safety · Carrier profile · USDOT 1496662

WINDSTREAM COMMUNICATIONS LLC

LITTLE ROCK, AR 87

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 30.7%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 6.1%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 75 vehicle and 115 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

25.0% · 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 18.7 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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.0 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 2,243-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
2,243
Inspections · 24 mo
115
Annualized
≈58 / yr
Coverage
≈0.0 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

9%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
22%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
83%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
12%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
49%
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 Driving79
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance49 · 16 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance34
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance32
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving23
  • 393.43 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance20 · 19 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving16
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness8 · 8 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 07/18/2025. 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· 59 total · 20 in 24 mo

59
Total crashes
20
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20266016
20258018
20248018
20239039
20225014
20211010
20203003
20181001
20163013
20152002
20142002
20136035
20122002
20111001
20101001
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/26/2026KY00Yes
05/29/2026GA00Yes
05/19/2026NC01Yes
04/08/2026IA00Yes
03/02/2026GA00Yes
02/24/2026PA00Yes
10/22/2025GA00Yes
08/22/2025TX01Yes
07/04/2025TX00Yes
03/24/2025KY00Yes
03/21/2025MO00Yes
02/27/2025TX00Yes
01/13/2025TX00Yes
01/02/2025IA00Yes
11/11/2024GA00Yes
10/21/2024GA00Yes
10/10/2024GA01Yes
09/09/2024PA00Yes
09/03/2024GA00Yes
08/01/2024MO00Yes
06/03/2024IA00Yes
05/21/2024KY00Yes
11/29/2023NC00Yes
10/30/2023MO00Yes
08/16/2023KY00Yes