Dillenburg (dpa/lhe) - With a creative load securing, a truck driver on the Autobahn 45 near Dillenburg prevented several packages of trapezoidal sheets with a total weight of 5.3 tons from falling from the trailer. Because his load was in danger of slipping, he quickly tied it to a table and a bench in a parking lot, the police said on Friday. The man grabbed several lashing straps and tightened them using the devices embedded in concrete.
A patrol of the highway police, who became aware of the truck with the obviously slipped load on Wednesday, appraised with astonishment "the unconventional rescue operation". After the upper trapezoidal sheets were reloaded with a crane and the officials removed the load securing, they allowed the vehicle to continue its journey.
