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A transport truck driver’s jury-rigged solution to a damaged trailer didn’t make it past an alert OPP officer patrolling Highway 401 near Mallorytown late Tuesday.

The truck driver had struck a loading dock in Montreal, severely damaging the trailer, ripping part of the siding off the box and dislodging the I-beams that support the floor.

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“With the structural integrity of the trailer gone completely, the driver had used a nylon strap to tie up broken cross members,” Ontario Provincial Police said in a news release Thursday morning. “The driver’s intention was to drive to Toronto where he would have it fixed.”

Police with the OPP’s Highway Enforcement Team, pulled the licence off the trailer and had it removed from the highway.

The driver, a 23-year-old Windsor man, was charged with driving a commercial vehicle with a major defect.

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