KNIFE RIVER Truck Accidents — What the Federal Record Shows
KNIFE RIVER has 2 federal crashes on record — most recent: May 2026 (WY).
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Crashes on record
May 2026
Most recent crash
Filing not required
Liability insurance on file
JTL GROUP INC · USDOT 474284 · Billings, MT · 397 power units · large fleet
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What crashes are on KNIFE RIVER's federal record?
A May 26, 2026 crash in WY is on file — recorded as property damage, with a vehicle towed disabled from the scene.
A May 21, 2026 crash in MT is on file — recorded as property damage, with a vehicle towed disabled from the scene.
Both crashes occurred in 2026.
Why these columns: a crash enters the federal file only when it involved a death, an injury taken for immediate medical care, or a vehicle towed disabled from the scene — the federal reportable-crash threshold. Property-damage-only crashes below that threshold are not in this record.
Who insures KNIFE RIVER trucks — and for how much?
KNIFE RIVER operates as a private fleet. Federal regulators do not require private carriers to file liability insurance, so no filing is expected here — insurance held privately is not disclosed in federal records.
Filed Liability Limit
Filing not required
Primary Insurer
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ACTIVE FILINGS (ALL TYPES): 0 | SELF-INSURED: No
When a carrier's federal record shows no active insurance on file, a qualified attorney can investigate other potential sources of recovery — including the carrier's assets, related parties, and state-level or unfiled policies — to identify defendants that could contribute to a claim.
How often do KNIFE RIVER trucks fail safety inspections?
Vehicle Out-of-Service (OOS) Rate
CARRIER: 11.1% | NATL AVG: 14.5%
Driver Out-of-Service (OOS) Rate
CARRIER: 1.9% | NATL AVG: 6.2%
At or below the national average (▸ marker).
What these records mean if you were injured
Fleet-wide averages don't decide individual cases. Liability turns on what this specific driver, dispatcher, and truck's logs show in the hours before your crash.
Across 49 federal inspections in the past two years, KNIFE RIVER's vehicle out-of-service rate (11.1%) places below the median of comparable high-inspection-volume carriers with crash records.
In Wyoming, a personal-injury lawsuit must generally be filed within 4 years of the crash.
For the most recent crash on this record, that general window runs to about May 2030.
There are exceptions — which ones apply to your case is a lawyer's job.
What to do if you were injured in a KNIFE RIVER crash
Federal records document crashes; they don't assign fault — fault is established by investigation, police reports, and litigation.
The carrier named here may not be the only responsible party — brokers, shippers, and manufacturers sit outside this record, each on their own clock.
Federal driver-log retention for this crash: expires Nov 2026.
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USDOT 474284 · Jtl Group Inc
FMCSA snapshot 2026-05-01 · metrics recomputed 2026-07-21
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Why timing matters
State law may give you years to file a claim — but the evidence often doesn't last that long. Dashcam and onboard data can be overwritten within days. Federal rules require carriers to keep a driver's electronic logs (ELD) for only six months; after that, deletion is lawful. A preservation letter from an attorney puts the carrier on formal notice — destroying evidence after that point risks court sanctions.
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Step 1 of 3 · What happened
Institutional appendix · technical record & compliance
Federal violation record — 13 violations recorded in the trailing 24-month inspection window. Source: FMCSA SMS BASIC.
Night-driving crash pattern
Night-driving analysis: insufficient crash sample (N < 5).
Pattern detection requires at least 5 documented crashes in the past 5-year window.
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Verified federal extraction · 2026-07-21 16:19:43 UTC