Trade trailers around 350 kilos: Police stops drivers at Steinheim

Steinheim.During a control, officials from the Höxter transport service stopped a VW Golf with an unchecked trailer on the B 239 near Steinheim.The trailer was loaded with sawn round wood, which the owner wanted to process into firewood.Both tires of the trailer axis were so flat that there was suspicion of overloading.Thus, the officials ordered a crest on a closest, soaked vehicle scale.

The result of the Höxter police: the permissible trailer load was exceeded by more than 50 percent.The controlled VW Golf Plus has a permissible trailer load for unchecked trailers of 690 kilograms, the trailer had an actual trailer load of (after deduction of a measurement tolerance) 1.040 kilograms.This corresponds to an overload of 350 kilos (50.7 percent).

The measurement also resulted in an exceeding the permissible overall trailer mass of more than 30 percent.In this case, 800 kilograms were registered (after deduction) 1.070 kilograms.

Therefore, the officials prohibited the car leader in the state.The traffic offender awaits 235 euros of fine, a point in Flensburg and the resulting weighing costs.

Warning of the police

In this context, the Höxter district police authority indicates that a danger to the drivers themselves, but also for other road users, can result from exceeding the permissible vehicle masses."In this case, the panels could have heated up tires so much that they had burst," said police spokesman Jörg Niggemann.The team could skid and cause an accident.Likewise, the brakes of the towing vehicle alone are not designed to brake the significantly exceeded mass of the trailer.In the event of an emergency braking, it would certainly not have come to a stop in time.

Hence the appeal: "Check your vehicle weights! It serves your own security," said police spokesman Jörg Niggemann.