Safety and Compliance Officers intercepted this truck and found an interesting windscreen wiper situation that they say “could have ended in disaster”. According to the regulator, the driver had ...

This man was securing the ratchet straps on the truck and was being funny. When his friend asked him to redo it, the strap snapped, causing him to fall on his back.

The truck was carrying two tractors which would have weighed around three tonnes each. The “straps were insufficient to contain the load”, the court heard. The man had previous road traffic ...