ACADEMY BUS LLC
USDOT 1771456MC-Docket MC646780DANIA BEACH, FL
Do not tender357 power units
ACADEMY BUS LLC (USDOT 1771456) in DANIA BEACH, FL — carries a hard disqualifier. FMCSA authority, fleet size, BASIC safety measures, crash and inspection history.
- Has active operating authority that's tenderable today (common or contract).
- No pending authority revocation.
- Not under an uncleared federal out-of-service or safety action.
- BIPD on file: $13,400,000.
- No cargo insurance on file. Required for many shipper contracts.
- No history of insurance lapses.
- Satisfactory safety rating.
- No BASIC alerts in any of the five public SMS categories.
- Driver and vehicle out-of-service rates are at or below the national roadside average.
- 14 preventable crash(es) in the last 24 months; recordable crash rate 0.
- 1 fatal crash(es) in the last 24 months.
- No link to a prior revoked authority.
- Authority involuntarily revoked 8 times, most recent 2019-05-31 — recurring instability (typically insurance-lapse / reinstate cycles).
- FMCSA compliance review on file dated 2025-11-24 (C).
- Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — their absence is not a clean record; use the crash-risk signals above instead.
Built from FMCSA's public Safety Management System data — guidance, not legal advice. Verify directly with the carrier and your cargo policy before tendering.
Authority
- Common authority
- Active
- Contract authority
- Not applicable
Safety & BASIC scorecard
BASIC safety measures
Unsafe driving
No alert
measure 0.12
Hours of service
No alert
measure 0.01
Driver fitness
No alert
measure 0
Controlled substance
No alert
measure 0
Vehicle maintenance
No alert
measure 0.22
Under the FAST Act, FMCSA publishes an absolute per-category measure (not a 0–100 percentile) for these five BASICs — the alert flag, not the raw number, is the risk signal. The Crash Indicator and Hazmat Compliance BASICs are statutorily withheld from public view.
Last 24 months
1
Fatalities
10
Injuries
14
Crashes
328
Inspections
1
OOS inspections
1
OOS violations
Insurance
- BIPD on file
- $13,400,000
- Cargo insurance
- No
- Bond on file
- No
Fleet
- Power units
- 357
- Total drivers
- 541
- Years in business
- 18
- Hazmat authority
- No
Crash risk
- Preventable crashes (24 mo)
- 14 of 14 total crash(es)
- Recordable crash rate
- 0
- Driver OOS rate
- 0%
- Vehicle OOS rate
- 0.3%
The official Crash Indicator BASIC is withheld from public SMS under the FAST Act — these derived signals stand in for it; their absence is not a clean record.
Compliance & history
- Reincarnation / chameleon
- No prior revoked authority
- Involuntary revocations
- 8 times last 2019-05-31
- Physical address
- No address flags
- Federal OOS / safety action
- None on file
- MCS-150 self-report
- 2025-09-05
- Insurance lapse history
- No lapses on record
- Last compliance review
- 2025-11-24 · C
Inspection history (all-time)
475
Inspections
2
OOS inspections
51
Violations
2
OOS violations
0
Post-accident
Record spans 2023-06-01 → 2026-05-19.
Crash history (last 24 months)
2026-01-25
FL
1 injured
2026-01-15
NJ
Tow-away
2026-01-04
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2025-10-08
FL
Tow-away
2025-09-20
FL
Tow-away
2025-06-15
FL
1 injured
2025-06-08
FL
Tow-away
2025-02-25
GA
1 fatal2 injuredTow-away
2025-01-15
NC
Tow-away
2024-07-31
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2024-07-29
FL
1 injuredTow-away
2024-07-27
GA
1 injured
2024-06-27
GA
1 injuredTow-away
2024-06-14
FL
1 injured
2024-05-19
KY
Tow-away
2024-05-09
FL
Tow-away
Violation pattern (all-time, by area)
| Area (49 CFR part) | Violations | Out of service | Most recent |
|---|---|---|---|
Vehicle parts & maintenance 393
|
23 | 1 | 2026-04-23 |
General safety regulations 390
|
5 | 0 | 2026-01-18 |
Unsafe driving 392
|
5 | 0 | 2026-03-02 |
Vehicle inspection & repair 396
|
5 | 0 | 2025-11-04 |
Hours of service 395
|
4 | 1 | 2025-03-22 |
Recent violations (last 24 months, worst first)
| Date | Category | Violation | OOS |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-02 | Unsafe Driving | Driver- Inattentive or Distracted Driving | — |
| 2026-01-18 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 11-14 miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2025-11-04 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lubrication - Oil or grease leak | — |
| 2025-09-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - License plate lamp inoperative | — |
| 2025-09-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Clearance lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-09-17 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Clearance lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-08-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2025-08-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Hubs - Wheel seal leaking | — |
| 2025-08-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Washers - Inoperative washing system. | — |
| 2025-08-26 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Lamps (other than headlamps) not steady burning as required | — |
| 2025-08-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Identification lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-08-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Side marker lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-08-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Identification lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-08-20 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Identification lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-06-04 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Backup lamp inoperative | — |
| 2025-03-22 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - ABS malfunction lamp defective on truck-tractor manufactured on or after March 1 1997 and each single unit C | — |
| 2025-03-22 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) Driver failing to have instruction sheet describing the data transfer mechanisms supported by the ELD and step | — |
| 2025-03-22 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - In-Vehicle Information - Failing to have a supply of blank driver's records of duty status graph-grids suffi | — |
| 2025-03-22 | Hours-of-Service Compliance | HOS (ELD) - ELD Form and Manner | — |
| 2025-02-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Clearance lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-02-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Clearance lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-02-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Identification lamp(s) inoperative | — |
| 2025-01-09 | Unsafe Driving | State/Local Laws - Speeding 15 or more miles per hour over the speed limit | — |
| 2024-12-27 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Lamps (other than headlamps) not steady burning as required | — |
| 2024-12-06 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lubrication - Oil or grease leak | — |
| 2024-10-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Suspension - Deflated air suspension | OOS |
| 2024-10-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Air Brake - Audible air leak at a proper connection | — |
| 2024-10-16 | Vehicle Maintenance | Operating a CMV without documentation of a periodic inspection | — |
| 2024-06-18 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Headlamp(s) - Any inoperative | — |
| 2024-04-26 | Vehicle Maintenance | Lighting - Headlamp(s) fail to operate on low and high beam | — |
Recent inspections (with violations, newest first)
Showing the 25 most-recent inspections that had violations. Clean inspections aren't listed here — they're counted in the all-time inspection totals above.
2026-04-23 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2026-04-23 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LBL | — | — |
2026-04-23 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2026-03-02 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-INAT | — | — |
2026-01-18 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLS3 | — | — |
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB2-DOT | — | — |
2025-11-04 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-L | — | — |
2025-08-27 3 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78A-WS | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45D-B | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-HWSL | — | — |
2025-08-26 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 25E-L | — | — |
2025-08-20 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2025-08-20 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2025-08-20 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LSML | — | — |
2025-06-04 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LBL | — | — |
2025-03-22 4 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hours of service 395 | 24 | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H4-ELDBRODS | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 22H2-ELDNISDT | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 55D1-B | — | — |
2025-03-15 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB2-DOT | — | — |
2025-02-27 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LCL | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LIL | — | — |
2025-02-27 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LCL | — | — |
2024-12-27 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 25E-L | — | — |
2024-12-06 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5B-L | — | — |
2024-10-16 3 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 17C-PI | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 45D-B | — | — |
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 207F-SDAS | OOS | — |
2024-06-18 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9(a) | — | — |
2024-01-15 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 9A-LHLI | — | — |
2023-12-29 5 viols· 1 OOS
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB1-MC | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLDL | — | — |
| Unsafe driving 392 | 2-SLLIRP | — | — |
| General safety regulations 390 | 21TB2-DOT | — | — |
| Hours of service 395 | 8A-HOSPVI | OOS | — |
2023-12-28 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| General safety regulations 390 | 21T(b) | — | — |
2023-12-19 1 viol
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
2023-12-18 2 viols
| Area (part) | Section | OOS | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vehicle parts & maintenance 393 | 78 | — | — |
| Vehicle inspection & repair 396 | 5(b) | — | — |
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