Iowa DOT calls out trucker for transporting busted trailer below cowl of darkness
On Tuesday, Iowa DOT Motor Car Enforcement (MVE) took to Fb to spotlight a latest site visitors cease involving a badly broken semi trailer.
Within the Might 23 publish, Iowa DOT MVE stated:
“Driving at night time has it’s advantages. Much less site visitors is unquestionably one in every of them. Avoiding regulation enforcement to make it from one state to a different with a trailer like this doesn’t at all times work, nonetheless.
No person wants a 53’ trailer falling aside on the interstate…”
The company additionally shared pictures of the broken trailer.
Many Fb customers expressed concern for freeway security. Others recommended that there isn’t a lot sensible distinction between illegally towing the broken trailer with a truck and legally towing it with a wrecker.
“They will’t simply magically teleport it to the scrapyard…” one individual identified.
“Completely unlawful for the truck to tow it however completely authorized for a wrecker to tow it down the highway…….” one other stated.
“Iowa DOT Motor Car Enforcement was it empty and being returned to a store for restore? In that case, how do you suggest transporting it?” a commenter requested.
“Speak about unsafe wow,” one other Fb person wrote.
