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BADGER TRANSPORTATION LLC Safety Record

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· trailing 24 months vs national benchmark

Vehicle OOS 15.9% (24-mo)252 veh insp · 24-mo · nat'l 22.26%
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 1.8% (24-mo)455 drv insp · 24-mo · nat'l 6.67%
030%nat'l 6.67%

OOS trajectory· trailing 6-mo vehicle-OOS rate vs national

8.6% now▲ Worsening

Trailing rate up 5.4 pts across the window — latest under the 22.26% national benchmark.

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
≈0.2 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Few roadside inspections for a 1,429-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
1,429
Inspections · 24 mo
455
Annualized
≈228 / yr
Coverage
≈0.2 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · 2026-07-01

14%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
28%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
62%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
Controlled Substances
0violations
clean · per-BASIC
38%
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 Driving208
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance46 · 2 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance37 · 35 OOS
  • 393.78 Windshield wipersVehicle Maintenance27
  • 396.17 Periodic (annual) inspectionVehicle Maintenance26
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance24
  • 396.3 Inspection / repair / maintenance not performedVehicle Maintenance18 · 8 OOS
  • 393.45 Brake tubing / hose defectsVehicle Maintenance13 · 2 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance11
  • 390.21 USDOT number marking on vehicleUnsafe Driving10

ELD & hours-of-service

27 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent 04/22/2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

15ELD device issues
3No log / no ELD
3False logs
3Drove over hours

Trending worse — 80% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 150 total · 30 in 24 mo

150
Total crashes
30
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
57
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20268037
2025161515
2024130613
2023150414
2022110410
2021130512
202010178
2019170815
20189039
20178028
20167007
20155035
20144014
20134014
20123023
20111001
20091001
20081001
20071011
20061011
20052012
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
06/08/2026OH01Yes
05/20/2026TX01No
05/13/2026TX00Yes
04/22/2026MD01Yes
03/19/2026TX00Yes
03/11/2026KY00Yes
03/11/2026FL00Yes
03/09/2026AR00Yes
12/05/2025MI00Yes
11/08/2025ND00Yes
11/03/2025WI01No
10/27/2025AZ00Yes
10/22/2025GA00Yes
09/22/2025TN11Yes
09/05/2025SC01Yes
06/14/2025GA00Yes
06/09/2025IL03Yes
05/20/2025FL00Yes
04/22/2025KY00Yes
02/11/2025FL01Yes
02/05/2025VA00Yes
02/03/2025FL00Yes
01/07/2025GA00Yes
01/02/2025IL00Yes
11/22/2024TN00Yes