Wheel was about to fall off
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• Using a vehicle with insecure wheels has cost a driver employed by Walsall based Watts Transport £455 in fines and costs, Geoffrey Crane, of Hadley, Telford, failed to appear before the Macclesfield
magistrates; they found him guilty in his absence.
Prosecuting for the Vehicle Inspectorate, John Heaton said that in June a two-axlecl tractive unit hauling a foreign operated three-axled curtainsider was stopped in a check on the M6 at Knutsford, The dish of the rear nearside wheel rim was contaminated with a large pile of swarf and filings. All 10 wheel rim studs were loose enough to be turned by hand; the stud apertures in the rim had elongated. The inner and outer nearside wheels were about the fall off and the vehicle was given an immediate prohibition.
After studying photographs of the wheel assembly the magistrates fined Crane £400 with £55 costs.