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Discharge for Wrekin driver

23rd December 1993
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• Telford heavy haulier Wrekin Transport Services, and one of the company's drivers, were given absolute discharges after West Bromwich Magistrates accepted that neither were to blame for using a vehicle in a danger ous condition.

The court was told that the eight-axled modular trailer was stopped by police on the M6 Motorway at Perry Barr after the trailer appeared to be swinging out of control.

Defending, Michael Carless said that the 32wheeled trailer was being hauled by a tractor unit plated at 150 tonnes gross, to pick up a bridge beam. The outfit was taken to the motorway under police escort, but they decided that it did not require escorting on the motorway itself. The police had escorted from the rear and made no complaint about the trailer's handling.

Pointing out that multi-axle modular trailers did not handle like a conventional semi trailer, Carless said that they were hinged in the middle and capable of turning 90 degrees. The trailer would inevitably follow the tracking and the camber in the nearside lane of the motorway, so that it would look as if it was wandering.

Gary Butler, Abnormal Load Engineering's workshop manager, said that the air leak later found on one of the vehicle's spring brake chamber would not affect the braking or control of the vehicle. The driver would have been unaware that there was an air leak. In fact the leak had sealed itself when his company went out to repair the defects.

The magistrates accepted that there had been no fault or blame on the part of either the company or the driver,


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