Carrier profile · USDOT 2289427 · MC-966701 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Holmes Livestock Logistics LLC

11 power unitsavg 3.3 yrLocal · 2 statesKALONA, IA82/100

CARRIER ACTIVEMC-966701 ACTIVE

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 —24-mo cumulative

050%

Driver OOS 10.0%24-mo cumulative

030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 0 vehicle and 10 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

8 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Mar '25 · 2

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.

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 11-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.

Registered power units: 11
Inspections · 24 mo: 10
Annualized: ≈5 / yr
Coverage: ≈0.5 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

36%

Unsafe Driving

Vektor peer est.

Hours-of-Service

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

21%

Driver Fitness

Vektor peer est.

Controlled Substances

0violations

clean · per-BASIC

Vehicle Maintenance

0violations

clean · 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.

392.2 State/local traffic law violation (speeding, etc.)Unsafe Driving17 · 2 OOS
383.71 Commercial Driver's License (CDL)Driver Fitness1 · 0 OOS
390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
391.11 Driver not qualifiedDriver Fitness1 · 1 OOS
392.16 Failure to use seat beltUnsafe Driving1 · 0 OOS
396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance1 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

No hours-of-service or ELD violations on record across 17 inspections — a clean logging history.

Crash history· 17 total · 1 in 24 mo

Total crashes

In last 24 mo

Fatal

Injury

Year	Crashes	Fatal	Injury	Tow
2024	2	0	0	2
2023	2	0	1	2
2022	1	0	0	1
2021	1	0	0	1
2019	1	0	0	1
2018	2	1	1	2
2017	2	0	0	2
2016	2	0	1	2
2015	4	1	2	4

Date	State	Fatalities	Injuries	Tow-away
Oct 2, 2024	IA	0	0	Yes
Mar 20, 2024	IA	0	0	Yes
Oct 21, 2023	IA	0	0	Yes
Oct 15, 2023	IA	0	1	Yes
Dec 19, 2022	IA	0	0	Yes
Nov 15, 2021	IA	0	0	Yes
Sep 24, 2019	IA	0	0	Yes
Oct 25, 2018	IA	0	0	Yes
Aug 2, 2018	IA	1	2	Yes
Sep 19, 2017	IA	0	0	Yes
Feb 13, 2017	IA	0	0	Yes
Sep 27, 2016	IA	0	0	Yes
Sep 7, 2016	IA	0	2	Yes
Nov 17, 2015	IA	0	0	Yes
Jul 21, 2015	IA	0	1	Yes
Jun 26, 2015	IL	0	1	Yes
Mar 13, 2015	IA	1	0	Yes