Carrier profile · USDOT 1448815 · MC-550181 · Updated Jun 13, 2026

Shepard Trucking LLC

12 power unitsavg 18.1 yrRegional · 6 statesHELENWOOD, TN80/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-550181 ACTIVE
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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 60.0%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 5.9%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 10 vehicle and 34 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 14.3 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

31 inspections in the charted months · busiest month Sep '24 · 5

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
≈1.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Within the expected band for a 12-unit fleet — FMCSA has inspected this carrier often enough that the out-of-service and violation signals above are statistically trustworthy.
Registered power units
12
Inspections · 24 mo
34
Annualized
≈17 / yr
Coverage
≈1.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

82%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
27%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
30%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
80%
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 Driving23 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance12 · 8 OOS
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance7 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance6 · 2 OOS
  • 396.5 Oil and/or grease leakVehicle Maintenance5 · 1 OOS
  • 393.48 Brakes inoperativeVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance3 · 0 OOS
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 393.47 Brake actuators / linings / componentsVehicle Maintenance3 · 2 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance3 · 1 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

3 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Dec 2, 2025. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

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

Crash history· 25 total · 2 in 24 mo

25
Total crashes
2
In last 24 mo
0
Fatal
6
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20261001
20251001
20243013
20232012
20223003
20211011
20201001
20195015
20182002
20171011
20161001
20151001
20122002
20101011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 5, 2026GA00Yes
Dec 15, 2025TN00Yes
May 6, 2024KY01Yes
Apr 25, 2024TN00Yes
Apr 9, 2024TN00Yes
Jun 26, 2023TN00Yes
Jun 16, 2023TN01Yes
Nov 2, 2022KY00Yes
Jun 20, 2022TN00Yes
Apr 13, 2022TN00Yes
Sep 14, 2021NC01Yes
Jun 7, 2020AL00Yes
Aug 14, 2019TN01Yes
Jul 16, 2019TN00Yes
Jun 28, 2019TN00Yes
Apr 25, 2019KY00Yes
Apr 19, 2019KY00Yes
Oct 31, 2018KY00Yes
Jul 30, 2018AL00Yes
Sep 10, 2017TN03Yes
Mar 2, 2016TN00Yes
Jan 10, 2015IN00Yes
Nov 23, 2012TN00Yes
Apr 20, 2012KY00Yes
Aug 20, 2010TN01Yes