Mail, packages scatter entire length of Indiana Toll Road

by | May 19, 2009 | Freight Damage, Transportation | 0 comments

Don’t Let This Happen to Your Company!

Here is a perfect example of why everyone needs to take time and effort to make sure each load going on our highways are blocked and braced properly.  Can you imagine how many accidents this could have caused and how many postal customers are going to be affected by this error?  Logistick has several products that could have fit their needs and budget to have kept this from happening.

WSBT South Bend

Mail, packages scatter entire length of Indiana Toll Road

Police say from one end of the state to the other, a truck on the Indiana Toll Road dropped mail packages it carried for the U.S. Postal Service.

The packages began to fall after a securing strap broke, according to Indiana State Police at the post near South Bend.

The first packages discovered were at the Ohio state line, but the driver never realized they were crashing to the pavement and no one called authorities to report the problem.

So the driver wasn’t stopped until he reached Illinois, leaving many a mile for police to check for missing items.

“Troopers are still out collecting packages,” said ISP dispatch early Wednesday, adding that seven or eight of them were already in their office.

No accidents were reported because of the scattered packages.  “Just a lot of mail,” police said.

But because authorities were working in the dark, they didn’t know how many more to expect or what hazards might be caused.

The Toll Road notified U.S. Postal Inspection Service personnel in Detroit, who were expected to take over the mail recovery case.

http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/45464282.html

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