Carrier profile · USDOT 156451 · MC-143881 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Hotard Coaches Inc

0 power unitsavg 5.6 yrRegional · 7 statesNEW ORLEANS, LA88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-143881 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
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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 0.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.0%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 99 vehicle and 43 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window● Steady

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Holding steady 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

100 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '26 · 27

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.

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving
0violations
official FMCSA
Hours-of-Service
0violations
official FMCSA
Driver Fitness
0violations
official FMCSA
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
clean · per-BASIC

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.

  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 395.26 ELD — required data elementsHOS Compliance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Aug 3, 2023. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 84 total · 16 in 24 mo

84
Total crashes
16
In last 24 mo
3
Fatal
54
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20265154
20255045
202410067
20232011
20222012
20214114
20201001
20194024
201811078
20175035
20165035
20155024
20146135
20121001
20112022
20101011
20091010
20081010
20071010
20062021
20052012
20033023
19991011
19972022
19952022
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jul 13, 2026LA02Yes
Jul 2, 2026LA01Yes
May 18, 2026TX55Yes
Feb 4, 2026TX01No
Jan 16, 2026LA01Yes
Dec 2, 2025TX04Yes
Aug 14, 2025TX00Yes
Mar 5, 2025TX060Yes
Mar 5, 2025TX060Yes
Mar 5, 2025TX060Yes
Nov 18, 2024MO00Yes
Nov 15, 2024TX01No
Nov 14, 2024TX02No
Oct 17, 2024TX00Yes
Sep 5, 2024TX01Yes
Aug 20, 2024TX00Yes
Jun 21, 2024LA02No
Mar 9, 2024LA02Yes
Jan 12, 2024TX00Yes
Jan 4, 2024TX02Yes
Jul 30, 2023TX01No
Jun 23, 2023AL00Yes
Sep 2, 2022TX00Yes
May 5, 2022LA01Yes
Dec 6, 2021TX01Yes