Carrier profile · USDOT 185771 · MC-152533 · Updated Jul 25, 2026

BUDD VAN LINES INC

124 power unitsavg 8.6 yrNational · 33 statesSOMERSET, NJ82/100
CARRIER ACTIVEMC-152533 ACTIVERATED SATISFACTORY
Verified linksbuddvanlines.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 8.5%24-mo cumulative
050%nat'l 22.26%
Driver OOS 7.5%24-mo cumulative
030%nat'l 6.67%

Every inspection in the window pooled — 59 vehicle and 106 driver inspections over 24 months.

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

0.0% · latest 6-mo window▼ Falling

Share of vehicle-level roadside inspections in each trailing six-month window that resulted in a vehicle out-of-service order. Trending down 9.8 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

100 inspections in the charted months · busiest month May '26 · 8

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
≈0.4 / unit·yr
thin signalabundant signal
Roadside-inspection volume is about what you'd expect for a 124-unit fleet — enough signal to read the safety record, though not a heavy sample.
Registered power units
124
Inspections · 24 mo
106
Annualized
≈53 / yr
Coverage
≈0.4 inspections / unit · yr

BASIC categories· CSA SMS · Aug 2026

31%
Unsafe Driving
Vektor peer est.
75%
Hours-of-Service
Vektor peer est.
48%
Driver Fitness
Vektor peer est.
99%
Controlled Substances
Vektor peer est.
16%
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 Driving51 · 0 OOS
  • 395.8 Record of duty status (log / ELD) not current or missingHOS Compliance18 · 1 OOS
  • 395.30 ELD — use / data transferHOS Compliance12 · 0 OOS
  • 393.9 Inoperative required lampsVehicle Maintenance9 · 0 OOS
  • 393.75 Tires (defective / underinflated / worn)Vehicle Maintenance9 · 7 OOS
  • 395.24 ELD — record edits / dataHOS Compliance7 · 0 OOS
  • 395.3 Driving beyond hours-of-service limitsHOS Compliance6 · 0 OOS
  • 391.41 No / expired medical certificateDriver Fitness6 · 4 OOS
  • 395.22 ELD — provider/registration/malfunctionHOS Compliance5 · 0 OOS
  • 393.95 Emergency equipment (extinguisher, triangles)Vehicle Maintenance5 · 0 OOS

ELD & hours-of-service

49 hours-of-service / ELD violations on record · most recent Apr 13, 2026. FMCSA does not publish the ELD device brand; these are the carrier's logging-compliance signals.

24ELD device issues
4No log / no ELD
4False logs
6Drove over hours

Trending worse — 75% of ELD violations are in the last 24 months. Falsified-log violations are a serious integrity flag.

Crash history· 81 total · 5 in 24 mo

81
Total crashes
5
In last 24 mo
2
Fatal
22
Injury
YearCrashesFatalInjuryTow
20263113
20245005
20232012
20224114
20213003
20206026
20192002
20184004
20172012
20152002
20144014
20132002
20126016
20114023
20101001
20094024
20081001
20074024
20061001
20055043
20041001
20031001
20022012
20002011
19994004
19982012
19971001
19961001
19941001
19931011
DateStateFatalitiesInjuriesTow-away
Jun 1, 2026NJ00Yes
Apr 9, 2026CA01Yes
Mar 21, 2026LA10Yes
Oct 18, 2024NC00Yes
Oct 3, 2024FL00Yes
May 31, 2024CO00Yes
May 1, 2024WA00Yes
Jan 15, 2024MI00Yes
Sep 21, 2023MD01Yes
Feb 11, 2023TN00Yes
Aug 21, 2022OH00Yes
Jul 29, 2022TN02Yes
Jul 11, 2022MD00Yes
Jun 17, 2022GA10Yes
Sep 30, 2021IN00Yes
Mar 2, 2021MO00Yes
Jan 30, 2021MT00Yes
Dec 5, 2020NJ01Yes
Aug 24, 2020NJ00Yes
Jul 17, 2020WI00Yes
Jul 17, 2020WI00Yes
Mar 11, 2020TX01Yes
Feb 28, 2020VA00Yes
Jul 26, 2019CT00Yes
Apr 18, 2019AL00Yes