JAY COUNTY, INDIANA — The U.S. Department of Transportation announced enforcement actions against multiple trucking companies and a commercial driver’s license school following a fatal semi-truck crash that killed four members of an Amish community earlier this month. According to federal officials, the actions stem from a February 3, 2026 crash involving 30-year-old Bekzhan Beishekeev, a Kyrgyzstan national who U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said was illegally present...

ROSEVILLE, MINNESOTA — Firefighters rescued an employee trapped inside a commercial cooler Friday morning after a tractor-trailer fire spread to multiple semitrailers and into a distribution building. According to the Roseville Fire Department, crews were dispatched around 8:00 a.m. to Quality Custom Distribution at 2501 Walnut Street for reports of a tractor-trailer on fire. When firefighters arrived, they found multiple semitrailers engulfed in flames, with the fire extending into...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA — Following Sunday’s fatal crash involving a Perdue tractor-trailer, records show that at least 15 tractor-trailers have gone over the side of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel since the 1980s. A 2023 public records investigation found that 14 truck drivers had fallen off the CBBT prior to this year. Adding Sunday’s crash brings the total to 15. In the past, only two drivers have survived the plunge into the water: an unidentified driver in 1984...

VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA — As the trucking community mourns the death of Perdue driver Ronnie Andrews following Sunday’s tragic crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, many are remembering the rare story of survival from another trucker who went over the side nearly a decade ago — and lived to tell about it. Photo credit: 13newsnow Matt Killmon first shared his story publicly in 2023, recounting how he survived a tractor-trailer plunge off the CBBT on January 6, 2016....

CAPE CHARLES, VIRGINIA — Authorities have identified the Perdue Farms driver killed in Sunday morning’s tractor-trailer crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel as 61-year-old Ronnie Andrews of Robersonville, North Carolina. Recovery crews have also confirmed that both the truck and Andrews’ body were removed from the water Sunday evening. The single-vehicle crash occurred around 6:30–6:40 a.m. on February 15, 2026, on the southbound span near the North Channel...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A 26-year-old man was killed and a woman remains in critical condition after a garbage truck struck their electric bicycle in Northwest Washington, D.C., according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Police said the crash was reported at approximately 2:06–2:08 p.m. on February 13, 2026, in the 4100 block of Kansas Avenue NW near the intersection of Upshur Street in the Petworth neighborhood. Photo credit: 7News Investigators determined that the garbage...

NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA — A Perdue Farms tractor-trailer driver has died after a single-vehicle crash early Sunday morning sent his truck overboard from the southbound span of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Photo credit: wboc According to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel District, the crash occurred around 6:30 a.m. near the North Channel Bridge, just south of Fisherman’s Island. Officials said the southbound tractor-trailer went off the west side of the bridge and...

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI — A federal appeals court has ruled that a commercial truck driver’s heart condition does not qualify as a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, affirming dismissal of his discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against his former employer. In Stephens v. U.S. Environmental Services LLC, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the driver’s atrial fibrillation did not substantially limit a major life activity and therefore did not...

KLAMATH COUNTY, Ore. — Nearly a year after failing to appear in court, a Florida truck driver has been arrested in connection with a 2024 fatal crash involving a semi-truck on Highway 97 that killed a La Pine woman. Oregon State Police said 35-year-old Desiree Danielle Johnson of St. Petersburg, Florida, was taken into custody Friday by the Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force in Pinellas Park. A nationwide warrant had been issued for her arrest after she failed to appear for...

LAREDO, Texas — Federal agents seized nearly $6.8 million worth of cocaine from a tractor-trailer that claimed to be hauling fresh flowers across the border, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials announced. The seizure occurred Tuesday, February 10, at the World Trade Bridge when a 2018 International tractor-trailer with a shipment manifest listing “roses/fresh flowers” was referred for secondary inspection. After a canine screening and a non-intrusive inspection...

SAGINAW COUNTY, MICHIGAN — A milk tanker driver reported missing by his employer was located safe Friday evening after he failed to arrive at a scheduled delivery in mid-Michigan, according to the Huron County Sheriff’s Office. The sheriff’s office said it was contacted the morning of Friday, Feb. 13, 2026, by Rathmourne Dairy of Port Hope, which reported that its driver — Gordon P. Wolschleger, 77 — along with his truck and milk tank trailer, was missing....

LIVERPOOL/SALINA, NEW YORK — New York officials say new warning technology and signage are now in place on the Onondaga Lake Parkway in an effort to curb repeated hits to a low-clearance railroad bridge in Onondaga County. On February 12, 2026, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced completion of a safety enhancement project aimed at preventing over-height trucks from striking the CSX-owned railroad bridge in the Village of Liverpool and Town of Salina. Work on the project began in June 2023....