MIKE'S TOWING & RECOVERY INC

DOT# 512441 MC# 220136 Branchburg, NJ Authorized For-Hire / Private Property
(908) 722-2122 mike@mikestowing.com 58 Chambers Brook Road, Branchburg NJ 08876
22 power units · all owned 16 drivers
HazMat
Satisfactory
FRED Score 74.9 / 100
Low confidence
33 yrs history · 7 roadside inspections

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Fleet & equipment

Power units
22
Drivers · CDL
16 · 14
Annual miles
522k unreliable
Type Own Term Trip Total
Trucks 14 0 0 14
Tractors 8 0 0 8
Trailers 14 0 0 14

Registration

Organization
CORPORATION
Registered
02-10-1993 (33 yrs)
MCS-150 Update
10-28-2025 (Address Change)
FRED Score Date
Nov 07, 2026
Officer
MICHAEL A SENA

Cargo

67.3
medium risk
Household Goods Motor Vehicles Drive/Tow Away Mobile Homes Metal: Sheets/Coils/Rolls Machinery/Large Objects Intermodal Containers Oilfield Equipment General Freight Logs/Poles/Beams/Lumber Building Materials Paper Products Utility Construction Water Well
High-Risk Cargo
Motor Vehicles, Drive/Tow Away, Mobile Homes, Machinery Large, Oilfield Equipment, General Freight, Household Goods

Note: "General Freight" is a catch-all; the actual cargo mix and its risk may differ.

Estimated from the commodity types reported to FMCSA, not from loss history or the true cargo mix.

Mileage Unreliable

MCS-150 annual mileage appears too low for fleet size given observed activity. The per-100k-mile rate benchmarks on this page are excluded; the FRED grade does not use mileage (crash exposure is power-unit-years, violation exposure is inspection counts).

Expected crash rate is probably lower than similar fleets (about a 70% chance), but the record is too thin to say by how much.

Similar fleets: for-hire fleets of 20–49 trucks with the same kind of operation, years in business and amount of road activity. Compared using its own crash record and roadside inspections.

This motor carrier 0.76×
ExcellentStrongSatisf.MarginalPoorCritical
▲ Similar fleets 1.0×
Expected crashes, next 12 months
0.4 vs 0.5 for similar fleets
Likely 0–1 crashes
This motor carrier
0.4
Similar fleets
0.5
Chance of a fatal crash, next 12 months
~1%
Below similar fleets.
What's driving the grade
Crash history
betterworse
Leans better, not yet proven. 0 crashes on the FMCSA record in 24 months; similar fleets have about 0.5 a year.
Roadside inspections
betterworse
Worse than peers. Out-of-service orders 1.86× and unsafe-driving and hours-of-service violations 1.55× the rate expected for its inspections. Together they move its crash estimate +12%: roadside results weigh far less than crash history.

Worth a closer look

From the FMCSA record. The grade already counts the safety items; insurance filings and links to other motor carriers are not in it.

  • Driver qualification
    1 out-of-service violation against drivers: 1 no valid CDL (Jun 2025).
    Ask: driver qualification files and hiring standards.
Strengths
  • No reportable crashes in 24 months.
Data flags
  • Dangerous driving: 1
  • Unreliable reported mileage
    The motor carrier's self-reported annual mileage (MCS-150) looks implausible, so exposure- and mileage-based figures may be distorted.
  • Estimated mileage
    No usable mileage was reported, so exposure was estimated from similar motor carriers. Mileage-based metrics here are approximate.

Track record

FMCSA record, Oct 2024 – Jul 2026 · grade scored on Sep 1, 2023 → Sep 30, 2026
Crashes
0
0 fatalities · 0 injuries · 0 tow-aways
Inspections
7
14% clean (no violations)
Vehicle out-of-service
50.0%
3 of 6
National avg 22.3%
Driver out-of-service
14.3%
1 of 7
National avg 6.7%
Violations
17
4 out-of-service
Inspections per quarter With an out-of-service order
Q4 '24: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q4 '24 Q1 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q1 '25 Q2 '25: 1 inspections, 1 out of service 1 Q2 '25 Q3 '25: 1 inspections, 0 out of service 1 Q3 '25 Q4 '25: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q4 '25 Q1 '26: 0 inspections, 0 out of service 0 Q1 '26 Q2 '26: 3 inspections, 2 out of service 3 Q2 '26 Q3 '26: 1 inspections, 1 out of service 1 Q3 '26
vs 11,996 peer fleets
This motor carrierPeers
Crashes 0.023 0.027
Inspections 0.25 1.02
Violations 0.39 0.71
Critical violations 0.09 0.14

Yearly rates from the last 24 months. Peers: 20–49 power units, medium-risk cargo.

What they get cited for

17 violations · 24 months
  • Vehicle maintenance No alert
    12 · 3 OOS
    Lights 5 · Brakes 2 · Cargo securement 1 · Tires 1 · Other parts 3
  • Unsafe driving No alert
    4 · 0 OOS
    Reckless / lane 2 · Speeding 2
  • Driver fitness No alert
    1 · 1 OOS
    No valid CDL 1
  • Hours of service No alert
    0
  • Drugs & alcohol No alert
    0
Out-of-service violations “No alert” = under FMCSA's BASIC intervention threshold

Violations by quarter

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No violation trend data

Crashes

24 months

No reportable crashes on the FMCSA record in the last 24 months.

Insurance filed with FMCSA

FMCSA record through May 14, 2026 · no change recorded by FMCSA since
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Last on FMCSA's record (May 14, 2026)
$1,000,000 · CLEAR SPRING PROPERTY AND CASUALTY COMPANY
on record since Jul 31, 2025 · FMCSA minimum $750,000 · no gap on FMCSA's record since Jul 2010
Cargo filing
on file · COMPANION PROPERTY & CASUALTY INS. CO. since Jun 1, 2011
36 months to May 14, 2026
  • One liability insurer throughout
  • 4 cancellation notices filed by insurers; 4 took effect (the last Jul 31, 2025, replaced the same day)
  • No gap in filed liability coverage while liability was required
Authority
  • FMCSA notices resolved in time: 3

Operating authority active (FMCSA's L&I record of May 14, 2026, status since Jul 15, 2025)

Who insures fleets like this →

FMCSA filings only, not a policy audit. Not part of the FRED grade. Wrong or out of date?

Where it happens

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Inspections by state
  • New Jersey (HQ) 3
  • Connecticut 1
  • Maryland 1
  • New York 1
  • Pennsylvania 1