Carrier profile · USDOT 1799691 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Cherokee Distributing Company

107 power unitsavg 6.1 yrLocal · 1 statesKNOXVILLE, TN80/100
AUTHORITY STATUS UNKNOWN
Verified linkscherokeedistributing.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 50.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 3.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 6 vehicle and 29 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

100.0% · 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 39.4 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

28 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Dec '24 · 4

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
≈0.1 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 107-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
107
Inspections · 24 mo
29
Annualized
≈15 / yr
Coverage
≈0.1 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

8%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
Hours-of-Service
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
30%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
69%
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 Driving11 · 1 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 5 OOS
  • 392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving2 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance2 · 2 OOS
  • 393.53 Automatic brake adjusters / indicatorsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.25 Lighting device requirementsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
  • 383.23 Operating without a valid CDLDriver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 55 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 25 total · 2 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
13
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20251001
20241011
20231001
20223013
20203023
20192012
20184014
20171011
20163023
20151001
20131001
20112021
20101011
20091011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jan 24, 2025TN00Yes
Dec 19, 2024TN01Yes
Mar 15, 2023TN00Yes
Sep 2, 2022TN01Yes
Jun 28, 2022TN00Yes
Mar 10, 2022TN00Yes
Sep 9, 2020TN00Yes
May 18, 2020TN01Yes
Mar 9, 2020TN01Yes
Sep 24, 2019TN00Yes
Jun 19, 2019TN01Yes
Dec 28, 2018TN00Yes
Sep 17, 2018TN00Yes
Sep 5, 2018TN01Yes
Mar 20, 2018TN00Yes
Apr 14, 2017TN01Yes
Dec 30, 2016TN02Yes
Oct 18, 2016TN00Yes
Sep 29, 2016TN01Yes
Feb 20, 2015TN00Yes
Jul 25, 2013TN00Yes
Jul 6, 2011TN03No
Apr 22, 2011TN01Yes
Mar 3, 2010TN01Yes
Mar 18, 2009TN01Yes