After Key Bridge collapse, local truckers say they’re overworked, fearful

Did you see what happened? Are you ok? Were you on the bridge? After taking his first night off in 40 days, Mandel Brown awoke March 26 to a flurry of texts and missed calls. A Maryland native and newly licensed trucker, Brown’s GPS showed that he had been on track to arrive at the Key Bridge at what turned out to be roughly the same time it collapsed. Exhaustion led to a lucky turn of fate: He had decided to rest that night in Virginia and resume his next leg in the morning.