Carrier profile · USDOT 108547 · MC-881458 · Updated Jun 30, 2026

Hood Industries Inc

DBA HOOD DISTRIBUTION

132 power unitsavg 5.8 yrNational · 29 statesHATTIESBURG, MS88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-881458 ACTIVE
Verified linkshoodindustries.comFMCSA SAFER

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 12.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 116 vehicle and 228 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.2% · 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 6.7 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

224 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jul '25 · 15

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
≈0.9 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 132-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
132
Inspections · 24 mo
228
Annualized
≈114 / yr
Coverage
≈0.9 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

28%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
34%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
23%
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 Driving45 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance17 · 14 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance11 · 0 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance9 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance9 · 2 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving9 · 0 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

33 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jun 2, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

23ELD device issues
1No log / no ELD
4False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 83% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 56 total · 6 in 24 mo

56
Total crashes
6
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
21
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20253013
20242012
20232002
20212002
20202002
20193013
20181011
20172002
20162002
20153013
20131001
20122012
20104004
20094033
20084033
20073013
20063012
20043013
20012122
19991001
19983022
19963023
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 13, 2026NC00Yes
Oct 31, 2025AL00Yes
May 30, 2025ME01Yes
Apr 10, 2025MS00Yes
Nov 15, 2024SC01Yes
Aug 21, 2024GA00Yes
May 23, 2023PA00Yes
Mar 20, 2023TN00Yes
Jul 19, 2021VT00Yes
Jan 6, 2021NY00Yes
Sep 1, 2020FL00Yes
Jun 24, 2020AL00Yes
Oct 25, 2019IN00Yes
Oct 1, 2019MA00Yes
Jan 21, 2019GA01Yes
Jul 30, 2018NC01Yes
Sep 12, 2017AZ00Yes
Jan 31, 2017GA00Yes
Mar 1, 2016TN00Yes
Jan 26, 2016NY00Yes
Oct 12, 2015FL00Yes
Aug 14, 2015KY00Yes
Feb 26, 2015GA01Yes
Jun 18, 2013FL00Yes
Aug 10, 2012VT01Yes