BTBARD TRANSPORT INC 100

BARD TRANSPORT INC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 16.4% (24-mo)73 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.2% (24-mo)187 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

19.5% now● Stable

Holding near 19.5% — under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 99-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
99
Inspections · 24 mo
188
Annualized
≈94 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

48%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
78%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
7%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
33%
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 Driving76
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance15 · 12 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance8 · 5 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 3 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance4
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving4
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3
  • 393.60 Windshield / glazingVehicle Maintenance2
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance2

ELD & hours-of-service

13 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/15/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

6ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
6False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 67% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 16 total · 10 in 24 mo

16
Total crashes
10
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
2
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20257017
20243013
20231001
20221001
20201001
20191001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/06/2026AR00Yes
02/18/2026MN00Yes
11/29/2025IA00Yes
08/29/2025IN00Yes
05/30/2025AR00Yes
05/23/2025TN00Yes
05/01/2025AL01Yes
04/02/2025TX00Yes
01/07/2025CA00Yes
10/11/2024IL00Yes
04/27/2024NM01Yes
02/28/2024AZ00Yes
04/18/2023IN00Yes
08/20/2022KY00Yes
08/14/2020KY00Yes
07/20/2019TN00Yes