Carrier profile · USDOT 428568 · MC-224540 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Bluegrass Trucking Inc

43 power unitsavg 9.2 yrRegional · 5 statesHARRODSBURG, KY87/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-224540 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 33.3%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 — 18 vehicle and 29 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

33.3% · 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 31.8 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

29 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Apr '26 · 5

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.

Thin coverage
Under-inspected
Expected
Well-monitored
Heavily inspected
≈0.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 43-unit fleet — the out-of-service and violation signals above rest on a small sample, so weight them cautiously. Thin coverage on a young authority is itself a flag.
Registered power units
43
Inspections · 24 mo
29
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

10%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
73%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
56%
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 Driving12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance2 · 1 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
  • 393.207 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.122 Parts & accessories (vehicle condition)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS
  • 393.11 Required lamps/reflectors missingVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

5 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 4, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

1ELD device issues
0No log / no ELD
2False 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· 38 total · 4 in 24 mo

38
Total crashes
4
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
14
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20252002
20241011
20223023
20213003
20194014
20186035
20174014
20163013
20155014
20143022
20121010
20091001
19951011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 6, 2026KY00Yes
Nov 4, 2025KY00Yes
Sep 30, 2025KY00Yes
Oct 7, 2024OH01Yes
Aug 10, 2022KY02Yes
May 10, 2022TN01Yes
Apr 13, 2022KY00Yes
Sep 20, 2021TN00Yes
Jul 23, 2021KY00Yes
Feb 3, 2021TN00Yes
Dec 10, 2019AR00Yes
Aug 15, 2019GA00Yes
Apr 25, 2019AR00Yes
Apr 24, 2019TN03Yes
Dec 18, 2018TN00Yes
Sep 19, 2018TN01Yes
Sep 14, 2018AL00Yes
Mar 13, 2018KY01No
Feb 19, 2018TX00Yes
Jan 16, 2018TN01Yes
Nov 17, 2017KY00Yes
Jun 12, 2017KY00Yes
Mar 8, 2017TN02Yes
Feb 28, 2017GA00Yes
Jun 3, 2016TN01Yes