LANDUS COOPERATIVE

DBA: LANDUS

DOT# 723167 MC# 821078 Des Moines, IA Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(515) 817-2100 chase.hunter@landus.ag 220 Sw 9th Street Ste 300, Des Moines IA 50309
343 power units 315 drivers
HazMat
Not enough record
Graded once the record supports it
28 yrs history · 24 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
343
Drivers · CDL
315 · 186
Annual miles
3.5M unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 254 0 0 254
Tractors 66 9 0 75
Trailers 192 1 0 193

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
Registered
01-07-1998 (28 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
04-16-2025 (Biennial Update)
FRED Score Date
Nov 08, 2026
Officer
SAM CATON
Officer
CHASE HUNTER

Cargo

60.5
medium risk
Machinery/Large Objects Liquids/Gases General Freight Other: DRY FERTILIZER Grain/Feed/Hay Dry Bulk Farm Supplies Chemicals
High-Risk Cargo
Machinery Large, General Freight

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

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 343 power units is real, but the roadside record corroborates little of it — 22 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).

Not enough record to grade yet.

24 inspections and 2 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months fit anything from an Excellent fleet to a Poor one.

Similar fleets: intrastate fleets of 200–499 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 0.42×–1.64×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
1.5 vs 1.5 for similar fleets
Likely 0–4 crashes
This motor carrier
1.5
Similar fleets
1.5

A record this thin can't pin that down: about a 1-in-8 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 (343 power units).
What the record shows
Crash history
betterworse
Lower so far, not yet proven. 2 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months (about 1 a year); similar fleets have about 1.5 a year. Too short a record to be sure, so the grade counts its crash record as about 7% below typical. The grade counts 5 crashes in its 36-month scoring window, recent ones weighted most.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Mixed. Unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 2.55× the rate expected for its inspections, but out-of-service orders 0.67×. 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.

  • Driver qualification
    1 out-of-service violation against drivers: 1 no valid CDL (Apr 2026).
    Ask: driver qualification files and hiring standards.
  • Hazmat violations
    1 hazmat violation, 1 out of service.
  • Filed fleet not seen on the road
    Only 22 of the 343 filed power units were seen at a roadside inspection in 24 months (24 inspections in all). The crash expectation assumes all 343 are running. Intrastate fleets of 200–499 trucks in Iowa are rarely inspected (about 1 a year for every 27 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 Apr 2025).
Strengths
  • 2 crashes in 24 months. No injuries, no fatalities.
  • Driver out-of-service rate 4.2% vs 8.5% for intrastate motor carriers.
  • No FMCSA BASIC alerts.
Data flags
  • Dangerous driving: 1
  • High speeding: 8
  • 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.

Track record

FMCSA record, Oct 2024 – Sep 2026 · grade scored on Oct 1, 2023 → Oct 31, 2026
Crashes
2
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
24
21% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
40.0%
2 of 5
Intrastate avg 30.6%
Driver out-of-service
4.2%
1 of 24
Intrastate avg 8.5%
Violations
30
4 out-of-service

Inspected about as often as intrastate fleets of 200–499 trucks in Iowa (about 26 in 24 months would be typical; 50% of them had none).

Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q4 '24: 8 inspections, 0 out of service 8 Q4 '24 Q1 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '25 Q2 '25: 4 inspections, 0 out of service 4 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 3 inspections, 0 out of service 3 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 2 inspections, 1 out of service 2 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 3 inspections, 1 out of service 3 Q2 '26 Q3 '26: 2 inspections, 0 out of service 2 Q3 '26
vs 60 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.003 0.010
Inspections 0.06 0.19
Violations 0.04 0.04
Critical violations 0.01 0.01

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: intrastate fleets, 200–499 power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

30 violations · 24 months
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    16 · 0 OOS
    Speeding 10 · Seat belt 3 · Reckless / lane 2 · Phone use 1
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    11 · 2 OOS
    Lights 5 · Brakes 1 · Cargo securement 1 · Tires 1 · Other parts 3
  • Driver fitness No alert
    2 · 1 OOS
    No valid CDL 2
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
  • Hazmat
    1 · 1 OOS
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
2 crashes
  • Feb
    5
    2026
    Iowa
    Property damage only
    Daylight, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.
  • Nov
    24
    2025
    Iowa
    Property damage only
    Wet road, daylight, fog, two-way trafficway divided unprotected median.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since
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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026)
primary $1,000,000 + excess $4,000,000 (total $5,000,000) · NATIONWIDE AGRIBUSINESS INSURANCE CO.
on record since Jun 1, 2022 · FMCSA minimum $5,000,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since Jun 2012
Cargo filing
not required by FMCSA (household-goods motor carriers only); the cargo policy is not on FMCSA's record
36 months to May 14, 2026
  • One liability insurer throughout
  • No gap in filed liability coverage while liability was required

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since Apr 29, 2016)

Who insures fleets like this →

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) 23
  • Minnesota 1

Mostly inspected in its home state (96%).