Driver charged after OPP stop truck missing tires on QEW

Ontario Provincial Police say a commercial truck with a major mechanical defect was stopped early Monday morning on the QEW in Niagara Region.

According to the OPP, Burlington police officers responded to a traffic complaint around 3:30 a.m. involving a bobtail truck missing several tires travelling towards Toronto on the QEW from Ontario Street in St. Catharines.

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Police say officers were able to see and hear the truck approaching before stopping it near Casablanca Boulevard in Grimsby.

Investigators allege the driver was completing a daily inspection report as an officer approached the vehicle.

A 36-year-old man from Brampton has been charged with operating an unsafe commercial motor vehicle, driving a commercial motor vehicle with a major defect and failing to ensure a daily inspection report was accurately completed.