Carrier profile · USDOT 1726556 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Midwest Solid Waste

DBA ANKENY SANITATION INC

79 power unitsavg 4.4 yrLocal · 1 statesANKENY, IA74/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linksankensanitation.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 46.2%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 11.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 13 vehicle and 44 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

66.7% · 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 31.5 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

42 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Aug '25 · 5

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 79-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
79
Inspections · 24 mo
44
Annualized
≈22 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
90%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
19%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
51%
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 Driving112 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 4 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving8 · 0 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness7 · 7 OOS
  • 383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness7 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.134 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance4 · 4 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 95 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 43 total · 6 in 24 mo

43
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
16
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20253003
20241010
20232012
20224014
20211011
20202012
20197026
20182012
20173013
20163012
20144023
20122012
20095024
20081011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 7, 2026IA00Yes
Apr 8, 2026IA00Yes
Mar 18, 2026IA00Yes
Sep 17, 2025IA00Yes
Apr 14, 2025IA00Yes
Jan 14, 2025IA00Yes
Apr 1, 2024IA01No
Sep 5, 2023IA00Yes
Jul 12, 2023IA01Yes
Dec 22, 2022IA00Yes
Dec 16, 2022IA00Yes
Oct 3, 2022IA02Yes
Jun 2, 2022IA00Yes
Aug 16, 2021IA01Yes
Oct 26, 2020IA00Yes
Aug 31, 2020IA01Yes
Dec 17, 2019IA00Yes
Dec 3, 2019IA00Yes
Nov 12, 2019IA00Yes
Oct 2, 2019IA01Yes
Aug 29, 2019IA01No
Jul 7, 2019IA00Yes
Jun 4, 2019IA00Yes
May 9, 2018IA01Yes
Feb 20, 2018IA00Yes