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Feeling secure?
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Have you sent an artic on a ferry in the past nine years? DIcl the trailer have the required ferry securing rings to allow it to be stored safely and securely on-board?
If you answered 'yes' to the first question, there's a high probability you answered 'no to the second: and that worries us: and it should concern you, your clients and your insurers.
The Marine Accident Investigation Branch's (MAIN detailed report into the circumstances that led to a Turners tanker crashing through the stern door of the Stena Voyager on its journey from Stranraer to Belfast on 28 January makes for genuinely disturbing reading.
Among the report's many recommendations is the call for Turners to fit securing rings -in accordance with the guidance given in the ISO 9367 standards-, to wit: there should be four ferry securing rings on each side of the trailer This is not to damn Turners —a more professional operator is hard to find — rather the report highlights an oversight that pretty much the entire industry is 'guilty' of.
The MAIB's research on other ferry crossings found an extremely tow percentage of trailers had the required securing rings: -Of the semi traiLers inspected, 52% had fewer securing rings than recommended..., and 26% had no securing rings.
investigate the incident in full in an upcoming issue, but for now, log on to www.
1. roadtransport.corn and read the accident ‘149a,'. report and make damn sure that ale of
your vehicles are safe.
• Don't forget to take part in our Trucking Britain Out Of Recession
initiative. Log on to www.roadtransport. com/britain
Justin Stanton
Commercial Motor the official UK Journal of the International Truck of the Year and International Van of the Year Awards