Carrier profile · USDOT 2903480 · MC-977094 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

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13 power unitsavg 12.5 yrMulti-region · 9 statesHAMMOND, LA68/100
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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 60.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 15.6%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 23 vehicle and 32 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

70.0% · 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 26.1 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

31 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '25 · 3

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
≈1.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 13-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
13
Inspections · 24 mo
32
Annualized
≈16 / yr
Coverage
≈1.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

27%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
81%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
60%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
91%
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.

  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance23 · 9 OOS
  • 392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving13 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 10 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance11 · 7 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance8 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 3 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 3 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

22 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jul 23, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
4False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 55% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 11 total · 2 in 24 mo

11
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
5
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20262002
20241010
20232011
20221001
20211001
20201011
20191001
20181010
20171011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Feb 1, 2026TX00Yes
Feb 1, 2026TX00Yes
Jan 1, 2024TX01No
Nov 16, 2023TX01No
May 19, 2023LA00Yes
Jul 26, 2022LA00Yes
Jan 26, 2021IL00Yes
Dec 22, 2020WI01Yes
May 13, 2019TN00Yes
Apr 20, 2018LA01No
Jan 12, 2017LA01Yes