Driving by Matthew Guy 10/20/2021
Trailer hitch balls, that is What? You expected us not to make a juvenile joke in the headline of this story? Listen, most of us around here are still amused by bodily functions, so this shouldn’t be unexpected. What was unexpected for a Halton Police officer earlier this week was a contractor who failed to tightly secure the trailer hitch ball on their truck’s drawbar.
According to a video posted to Twitter by the attending officer, the truck and trailer in question were bounding along Dundas Street when the gendarmes spotted something amiss at the hitching point. Closer inspection revealed the ball on which the loaded trailer’s tongue was resting did not get a good tightening at last inspection, an oversight which could certainly lead to calamity.
The officer also goes on to complain about the state of this trailer’s safety chains, though the links shown in the video seem ok at first glance. Nevertheless, problems like that are sometimes only obvious when viewed in person. There is an alarming amount of play in the trailer hitch ball, however, a fact shown by the cop when he spins the ball freely on its drawbar.
More:
https://driving.ca/auto-news/crashes/nutcracker-halton-police-encourage-drivers-to-check-their-ballshttps://twitter.com/CstTaraso9345/status/1450823263937044484
