BLOCKED BY LOAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 102, 3 May 1939, Page 5

BLOCKED BY LOAD.

LORRY DRIVER'S EXIT. DEPARTMENT'S SERIOUS VIEW. '"Both doors of the lorry wore "blocked to the extent that tile driver could not 2ei out. without turning on his back, grasping the roof and pulling himself out." -aid a finvpriinii'Ut tratlic inspector. Mr, A. K. Hodgson, in the Magistral c's Court to-day, when the firm of (a-limore Brothers admitted three nfl'i'Tires arising out of the. operation of a I iniU-r-ladeii lurry on the (ireat North lioail on .March Mr. Hodgson .-aid the lorry was carrying long length* of timber, which protruded to all r\ce--ive degree both back and front. In addition, both doors of the e-ab were largely blocked by the t imber. '•|,oad- of this kind can be transported conveniently by means of a lorry and trailer."' Mr. jlodgsi.n added. '-This sort of oll'euce seems to have become more prevalent." The Tran-port Department had instructed that a ih.se cheek should he kept on the ofTcnce, in view of the danger of such vehicles in moving trallic. The absence of a proper exit was ulso -erious. IJi'inarkiiiL' that in the event of an iicfirteiii the driver might not have been able to .net oul of the cab. Mr. J. Morlinir. S.M.. lined tin , defendant, company £\ for basing an excessive length uf load at the rear of the lorry, convicted and di-charged it for excessive length in front, and fined it £1 for the luck of provision of a reasonable exit for the driver.