Double-trailer truck lost load because welds snapped

Published: March 8, 2021, 6:55 p.m.

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.