Carrier profile · USDOT 1294590 · MC-501955 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Bacon By Gosh Inc

DBA BY GOSH

101 power unitsavg 4.9 yrRegional · 6 statesHENRY, TN88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-501955 ACTIVE
Verified linkstoshfarms.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 6.9%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.3%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 131 vehicle and 317 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

6.5% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 2.3 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

304 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Jan '25 · 19

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
≈1.6 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 101-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
101
Inspections · 24 mo
317
Annualized
≈159 / yr
Coverage
≈1.6 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

41%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
9%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
16%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
9%
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 Driving97 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance8 · 8 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance7 · 4 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance5 · 4 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance5 · 2 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
  • 391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness2 · 2 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 15, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
1False logs
1Drove over hours

Trending worse — 100% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 35 total · 5 in 24 mo

35
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
17
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20255025
20241001
20221001
20211001
20202111
20195024
20184014
20171111
20155035
20123023
20111010
20092022
20082002
20071011
20051011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Dec 4, 2025KY01Yes
Aug 13, 2025OH00Yes
May 20, 2025TN02Yes
Mar 10, 2025KY00Yes
Jan 8, 2025TN00Yes
Jan 17, 2024TN00Yes
Oct 10, 2022TN00Yes
Aug 31, 2021KY00Yes
Mar 3, 2020TN00Yes
Feb 5, 2020TN11No
Oct 28, 2019TN01Yes
Oct 17, 2019KY01No
Sep 11, 2019KY00Yes
Aug 18, 2019KY00Yes
Apr 2, 2019TN00Yes
Nov 1, 2018KY01Yes
Aug 15, 2018KY00Yes
Jul 15, 2018KY00Yes
Jul 12, 2018TN00Yes
Aug 21, 2017TN13Yes
Nov 5, 2015KY01Yes
May 13, 2015KY02Yes
Mar 12, 2015KY00Yes
Feb 17, 2015KY00Yes
Jan 12, 2015KY01Yes