South Australia Police (SAPOL) pulled over an overloaded rental truck over the weekend which was allegedly so badly overloaded, it bent the truck’s chassis.
The truck was intercepted while travelling towards Adelaide on the South Eastern Freeway at Mount Barker at around 3pm on Saturday, December 7.
It was pulled over after being spotted by the Heavy Vehicle Enforcement Unit patrol.
“An inspection of the truck revealed the truck’s chassis had bent, allegedly due to extreme overloading,” SAPOL revealed.
“Using portable equipment, police weighed the truck on site, and it will be alleged the truck was more than 13.9 tonnes over its permissible gross vehicle mass.
“An inspection of the load also revealed no measures had been taken to sufficiently restrain the cargo, consisting of building products.”
The driver, a 35-year-old man from Gilles Plains, was reported for severe risk breach over mass and severe risk breach of load restraint.
The passenger, a 30-year-old man from Gilles Plains, who was identified as the owner of the building products, was reported for chain of responsibility offences relating to causing and permitting the breaches.
The truck was defected due to damage caused to the brakes, suspension and chassis and the driver was issued a direction not to move it.
“The rental truck was so badly damaged it could not safely be used on the roads and had to be towed away,” said SAPOL.
The men will be summonsed to appear in court at a later date.
I hope there’s a follow up to this story It’s people who do this sort of behaviour that are unfortunately sharing the road with us