9 Mar 2021

Double-trailer truck lost load because welds snapped

From Morning Report, 7:55 am on 9 March 2021

A massive double-trailer truck lost half its load on a highway outside Kaikōura because most of the welds holding the refrigerator container on the chassis had snapped.

The accident went publicly unreported for a year But it triggered an investigation and the reverberations that shook up the industry are still raising safety questions.

Phil Pennington is looking into this.