Carrier profile · USDOT 328785 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Buddy Head Livestock Trucking Inc

1 power unitavg 18 yrLocal · 1 statesLEBANON, TN50/100

AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWNRATED SATISFACTORY

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

Vehicle OOS 100.0%24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 100.0%24-mo cumulative

030%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 1 vehicle and 1 driver inspections over 24 months.

Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay

No roadside inspections on the FMCSA record in this window

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.

Expected band

Under-inspected

Expected

Well-monitored

Heavily inspected

≈0.5 / unit·yr

thin signalabundant signal

Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 1-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 1
Inspections · 24 mo: 1
Annualized: ≈1 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

Unsafe Driving

6.27measure

SMS · per-BASIC

Hours-of-Service

7measure

SMS · per-BASIC

Driver Fitness

10measure

SMS · per-BASIC

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

8measure

SMS · per-BASIC

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.

383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance1 · 1 OOS
396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance1 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

1 hours-of-service / ELD violation on record · most recent Oct 28, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

0ELD device issues

1No log / no ELD

0False logs

0Drove over hours

Crash history· 36 total · 0 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2023	1	0	0	1
2019	1	0	0	1
2017	1	0	1	1
2014	1	0	0	1
2011	1	0	1	1
2009	2	1	1	2
2008	1	0	1	1
2007	3	0	1	2
2005	3	0	0	3
2004	3	0	3	3
2002	2	0	0	2
2001	1	0	0	1
2000	3	0	1	3
1999	1	0	1	1
1998	5	0	2	3
1997	3	0	1	2
1995	1	0	1	1
1994	2	0	0	2
1993	1	0	0	1

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Oct 5, 2023	KS	0	0	Yes
Jan 24, 2019	OK	0	0	Yes
Oct 28, 2017	KY	0	1	Yes
Feb 8, 2014	AR	0	0	Yes
Nov 16, 2011	TN	0	2	Yes
Feb 11, 2009	KS	0	0	Yes
Feb 6, 2009	MO	1	2	Yes
May 16, 2008	KS	0	2	Yes
Mar 8, 2007	OK	0	0	Yes
Feb 5, 2007	PA	0	1	No
Jan 15, 2007	OK	0	0	Yes
Oct 3, 2005	MO	0	0	Yes
Sep 14, 2005	AR	0	0	Yes
May 20, 2005	KS	0	0	Yes
Oct 3, 2004	KY	0	1	Yes
Sep 3, 2004	NE	0	1	Yes
Apr 20, 2004	NE	0	1	Yes
Apr 27, 2002	MO	0	0	Yes
Mar 28, 2002	IL	0	0	Yes
Sep 5, 2001	IL	0	0	Yes
Aug 1, 2000	MO	0	0	Yes
Jun 17, 2000	OK	0	1	Yes
Mar 28, 2000	KY	0	0	Yes
Sep 22, 1999	MO	0	1	Yes
Sep 22, 1998	KY	0	1	No