Carrier profile · USDOT 288471 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Walter E Nelson Co

59 power unitsavg 7.3 yrRegional · 5 statesPORTLAND, OR88/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY

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 8.7%24-mo cumulative

050%nat'l 22.26%

Driver OOS 6.3%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 69 vehicle and 96 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

12.5% · 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 3.8 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

94 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 9

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

≈0.8 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Within the expected band for a 59-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.

Registered power units: 59
Inspections · 24 mo: 96
Annualized: ≈48 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.8 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

42%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

12%

Hours-of-Service

Vektor peer est.

40%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

25%

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.

393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance21 · 0 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving21 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance18 · 0 OOS
391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness7 · 1 OOS
383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness6 · 6 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 3 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS
172.202 Other violationOther3 · 0 OOS
393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Feb 19, 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· 15 total · 4 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2026	2	0	0	2
2025	1	0	0	1
2024	2	0	1	2
2023	1	0	1	1
2020	1	1	0	1
2019	1	1	1	1
2018	1	0	0	1
2016	2	0	0	2
2014	1	0	1	1
2012	1	0	0	1
2002	1	0	0	1
1997	1	0	1	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Feb 24, 2026	OR	0	0	Yes
Jan 14, 2026	OR	0	0	Yes
Oct 6, 2025	WA	0	0	Yes
Oct 17, 2024	WA	0	1	Yes
Jul 25, 2024	WA	0	0	Yes
Jul 24, 2023	OR	0	3	Yes
Nov 25, 2020	OR	1	0	Yes
Sep 8, 2019	OR	1	4	Yes
Aug 9, 2018	OR	0	0	Yes
Dec 12, 2016	OR	0	0	Yes
Apr 4, 2016	OR	0	0	Yes
Nov 20, 2014	OR	0	1	Yes
Aug 17, 2012	WA	0	0	Yes
Jan 14, 2002	WA	0	0	Yes
Jan 21, 1997	OR	0	2	Yes