Carrier profile · USDOT 1711596 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Owatonna Bus Co Inc

0 power unitsavg 8.7 yrLocal · 1 statesOWATONNA, MN100/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkscavaliercoaches.netFMCSA 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 7.4%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 — 27 vehicle and 33 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

11.8% · 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 7.6 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

33 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 10

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
20%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
official FMCSA
Vehicle Maintenance
0violations
official FMCSA

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 Driving12 · 3 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 57 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 12 total · 0 in 24 mo

12
Total crashes
0
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20221010
20211001
20202002
20191001
20181001
20172021
20121001
20111011
20091001
20061011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 12, 2022MN01No
Mar 10, 2021MN00Yes
Feb 14, 2020MN00Yes
Jan 14, 2020MN00Yes
Dec 9, 2019MN00Yes
Oct 4, 2018MN00Yes
Oct 18, 2017MN01No
Oct 6, 2017MN01Yes
Dec 10, 2012MN00Yes
May 22, 2011MN09Yes
Jan 5, 2009MN00Yes
Apr 3, 2006IA02Yes