Carrier profile · USDOT 1301864 · MC-507538 · Updated Jun 21, 2026

Bowerman Trucking Inc

102 power unitsavg 3.5 yrNational · 20 statesSEARCY, AR88/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-507538 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksbowermanonline.comFMCSA 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 14.1%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 0.4%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 199 vehicle and 270 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

18.8% · 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 1.5 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

265 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Oct '24 · 20

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
≈1.3 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 102-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
102
Inspections · 24 mo
270
Annualized
≈135 / yr
Coverage
≈1.3 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

43%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
18%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
Driver Fitness
.06measure
SMS · per-BASIC
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
32%
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 Driving51 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance32 · 27 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance21 · 3 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance14 · 5 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance12 · 0 OOS
  • 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving10 · 0 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance8 · 0 OOS
  • 393.55 Antilock brake system (ABS)Vehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance6 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

20 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Jan 8, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

11ELD device issues
2No log / no ELD
0False logs
5Drove over hours

1 ELD violation in the last 24 months.

Crash history· 66 total · 9 in 24 mo

66
Total crashes
9
In last 24 mo
1
Fatal
18
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263003
20256036
20242012
20238027
20226116
20215025
20201011
20192002
20184004
20172002
20163013
20154014
20141011
20134014
20124023
20113003
20102002
20092002
20081001
20072012
20051011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
May 18, 2026MO00Yes
Feb 6, 2026AR00Yes
Jan 12, 2026IL00Yes
Dec 30, 2025AR00Yes
Aug 26, 2025MO00Yes
Jul 27, 2025AL01Yes
Apr 30, 2025GA00Yes
Mar 24, 2025OK01Yes
Mar 21, 2025AR01Yes
May 10, 2024MI00Yes
Jan 18, 2024AL01Yes
Dec 14, 2023GA00Yes
Nov 7, 2023KS00Yes
Sep 2, 2023AL00Yes
Aug 7, 2023AR00Yes
May 26, 2023TN01No
Apr 14, 2023KS00Yes
Mar 31, 2023AR03Yes
Jan 22, 2023TX00Yes
Dec 14, 2022TN00Yes
Nov 29, 2022AR00Yes
Jun 21, 2022TX20Yes
Apr 13, 2022IN00Yes
Mar 24, 2022MO01Yes
Jan 6, 2022KY00Yes