Carrier profile · USDOT 1436462 · MC-542695 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Cowart Mulch Products Inc

93 power unitsavg 8.1 yrRegional · 7 statesSUGAR HILL, GA74/100
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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 47.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 17 vehicle and 53 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

40.0% · 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 7.7 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

52 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Feb '25 · 7

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 93-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
93
Inspections · 24 mo
53
Annualized
≈27 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

41%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
52%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
46%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
69%
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 Driving47 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 6 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance4 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving4 · 0 OOS
  • 393.201 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.100 Cargo securement (general)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 3 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance3 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

19 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 7, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

12ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
5False logs
2Drove over hours

Trending worse — 92% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 49 total · 6 in 24 mo

49
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
9
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20255105
20241001
20233013
20222102
20213003
20203012
20193003
20186016
20173003
20167047
20152012
20143003
20122002
20111001
20101001
20092012
20081001
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Mar 23, 2026SC00Yes
Sep 30, 2025GA10Yes
Aug 19, 2025GA00Yes
May 30, 2025FL00Yes
Mar 31, 2025GA00Yes
Jan 23, 2025FL00Yes
Feb 19, 2024GA00Yes
Dec 7, 2023TN00Yes
Oct 13, 2023FL01Yes
Feb 7, 2023GA00Yes
Jul 22, 2022GA10Yes
Apr 18, 2022GA00Yes
Dec 27, 2021SC00Yes
Oct 4, 2021GA00Yes
Mar 23, 2021FL00Yes
Aug 20, 2020GA00Yes
Jun 10, 2020GA00Yes
May 29, 2020GA01No
Aug 12, 2019GA00Yes
Jul 1, 2019TN00Yes
May 30, 2019FL00Yes
Dec 4, 2018GA00Yes
Oct 29, 2018GA01Yes
Apr 18, 2018GA00Yes
Apr 13, 2018GA00Yes