Carrier profile · USDOT 928809 · MC-400625 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

WINDWALKER TRANSPORTATION INC

81 power unitsavg 5.6 yrNational · 30 statesSIOUX FALLS, SD87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-400625 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linkswindwalkertransportation.comFMCSA 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 29.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 93 vehicle and 228 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

28.6% · 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 6.2 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

217 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 15

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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 81-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
81
Inspections · 24 mo
228
Annualized
≈114 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

72%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
71%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
3%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
59%
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 Driving82 · 2 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance29 · 9 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance29 · 26 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance12 · 6 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance11 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance7 · 6 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving6 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

40 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 11, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

23ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
11False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 91% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 70 total · 13 in 24 mo

70
Total crashes
13
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
23
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20264014
20258038
20241001
20233023
20225015
20214014
20203013
20192002
20182022
20174013
20162011
20155015
20142002
20134004
20121001
20115015
20107055
20092012
20083003
20062012
20031011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 2, 2026WY01Yes
May 1, 2026NJ00Yes
Mar 15, 2026IA00Yes
Feb 25, 2026CA00Yes
Dec 13, 2025IA01Yes
Nov 28, 2025NY01Yes
Oct 28, 2025PA00Yes
Jul 22, 2025IA00Yes
Jun 3, 2025NY00Yes
May 1, 2025IA00Yes
Mar 27, 2025KS00Yes
Feb 27, 2025PA01Yes
Nov 19, 2024SD00Yes
Dec 20, 2023PA01Yes
Oct 30, 2023IA01Yes
Mar 29, 2023IA00Yes
Jul 28, 2022NY00Yes
Apr 14, 2022MN01Yes
Mar 1, 2022OR00Yes
Feb 14, 2022IA00Yes
Feb 14, 2022SD00Yes
Oct 13, 2021MO01Yes
Sep 27, 2021WY00Yes
Aug 27, 2021WY00Yes
Feb 4, 2021NE00Yes