Butts Foods LP
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 rate· vehicle OOS · vehicle-level inspections · 6-month trailing
Roadside inspection history· 24 charted calendar months · vehicle / driver level · any-OOS overlay
14 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '25 · 5
Inspection coverage· expected vs observed · the fraud signal
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.
- Registered power units
- 27
- Inspections · 24 mo
- 17
- Annualized
- ≈9 / yr
- Coverage
- ≈0.3 inspections / unit · yr
BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026
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 Driving10 · 0 OOS
- 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 4 OOS
- 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance3 · 1 OOS
- 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness2 · 1 OOS
- 392.22 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
- 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance2 · 0 OOS
- 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance2 · 0 OOS
- 392.3 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS
- 392.5 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 1 OOS
- 392.7 Driving of commercial motor vehiclesUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
ELD & hours-of-service
6 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent May 21, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.
Trending worse — 50% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months.
Crash history· 46 total · 2 in 24 mo
| Year | Crashes | Fatal | Injury | Tow | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2019 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 2018 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2013 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| 2012 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| 1998 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Date | State | Fatalities | Injuries | Tow-away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 13, 2024 | AL | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Nov 7, 2024 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Aug 23, 2023 | MS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 6, 2022 | TN | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Aug 2, 2022 | MS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Jul 22, 2021 | MS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 3, 2020 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Apr 7, 2020 | MS | 0 | 1 | No |
| Feb 21, 2020 | MS | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Dec 23, 2019 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 3, 2019 | MS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Aug 24, 2019 | AL | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| May 13, 2019 | AL | 0 | 2 | Yes |
| Apr 5, 2019 | GA | 0 | 1 | No |
| Jan 10, 2019 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Dec 21, 2018 | TN | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Oct 18, 2018 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 25, 2018 | AR | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Mar 16, 2018 | MS | 0 | 1 | Yes |
| Sep 6, 2016 | MS | 0 | 1 | No |
| May 12, 2016 | TN | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Feb 18, 2016 | MS | 0 | 3 | Yes |
| Jan 6, 2016 | KS | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Feb 20, 2015 | AL | 0 | 0 | Yes |
| Sep 2, 2014 | MS | 0 | 1 | Yes |