NORTH IOWA COOPERATIVE ELEVATOR

DOT# 1025908 Thornton, IA Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(641) 998-2711 sturgess@nicoop.com 105 South First Street, Thornton IA 50479
55 power units · all owned 48 drivers
HazMat Intrastate Only
Not enough record
Graded once the record supports it
24 yrs history · 3 roadside inspections

FMCSA Live Status

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
55
Drivers · CDL
48 · 48
Annual miles
546k unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 14 0 0 14
Tractors 12 0 0 12
Trailers 38 0 0 38

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
Registered
05-06-2002 (24 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
06-20-2025 (Biennial Update)
FRED Score Date
Nov 08, 2026
Officer
SARAH STURGES
Officer
CRAIG BACKHAUS

Cargo

21.9
minimal risk
Liquids/Gases Grain/Feed/Hay Dry Bulk Chemicals

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Exposure Unverified

The expected crashes on this page assume the filed fleet of 55 power units is real, but the roadside record corroborates little of it — 3 units seen in 24 months, 0.03 inspections per filed unit-year. Verify the fleet size before relying on the crash expectation.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).

Intrastate operation

Runs within Iowa only. Intrastate fleets in Iowa are inspected about 1 a year for every 11 trucks; interstate fleets, about 1 a year for every 2 trucks. So this record rests mainly on crash reports, which states file for intrastate trucks too, and few inspections are ordinary here.

Not enough record to grade yet.

3 inspections and no crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 50–99 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

80% likely range 0.02×–1.60×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.1 vs 0.2 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.1
Similar fleets
0.2

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-10 chance it runs at Poor-level crash rates.

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Loss runs for the last 3 years, and confirm the fleet is operating at its filed size (55 power units).
What the record shows
Crash history
betterworse
Too little record to tell. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.2 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Better than peers. Violations 0.48× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate -6%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The estimate already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are context only.

  • Filed fleet not seen on the road
    Only 3 of the 55 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months (3 inspections in all). The crash expectation assumes all 55 are running. Intrastate fleets of 50–99 trucks in Iowa are rarely inspected (about 1 a year for every 19 trucks), so the roadside record can't confirm the fleet either way.
    Ask: how many trucks are actually operating, with the vehicle schedule (the MCS-150 was last updated Jun 2025).
Data flags
  • Unreliable reported mileage
    The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
  • Estimated mileage
    No usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.
  • Limited inspection history
    Fewer than 5 roadside inspections on record, so there isn't enough data to score this motor carrier with high confidence — the score leans more on peers.

Track record

FMCSA record, May 2025 – May 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
3
67% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
—
no inspections
Intrastate avg 30.6%
Driver out-of-service
0.0%
0 of 3
Intrastate avg 8.5%
Violations
1
0 out-of-service

Inspected about as often as intrastate fleets of 50–99 trucks in Iowa (about 6 in 24 months would be typical; 47% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q2 '25: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q2 '26
vs 74 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.000 0.015
Inspections 0.04 0.36
Violations 0.01 0.34
Critical violations 0.00 0.05

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, 50–99 power units, minimal-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

1 violation · 24 months
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    1 · 0 OOS
    Speeding 1
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Driver fitness No alert
    0
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    0
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months

No reportable crashes on the FMCSA record in the last 24 months.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

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No MC, FF or MX docket on FMCSA's registration for this motor carrier, so there are no insurance filings to show. FMCSA collects filings only from registered for-hire authorities; other motor carriers keep proof of insurance (MCS-90) at their place of business.

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state
  • Iowa (HQ) 3