The Garda Traffic Corps in Co. Cavan pulled over a driver towing a trailer that was missing two wheels at a checkpoint this morning.

The checkpoint was a multi-agency venture between the Gardai, the Road Safety Authority and waste management officials.

Approximately 12ft long, the livestock trailer was being towed behind a 4X4 vehicle.

It is clear from the pictures that two wheels are missing from the trailer – one from either side. It is unknown, as yet, if the driver was fined or whether any other action has been taken against them.

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Theme of tractors and trailers with missing wheels…

The trailer stopped this morning seemed to be empty when pictured at the checkpoint, but one farmer was stopped carrying a full load of sheep when his trailer only had three wheels in Co. Wicklow earlier this year.

The driver was fined for using the three-wheeled trailer with 30 ewes on board in mid-February. The driver was ‘left sheepish’; the Gardai declared the ‘wool wouldn’t be pulled over their eyes’.

The trailer was moved into a nearby field, according to the Gardai.

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Image: Garda twitter

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Meanwhile, the three-wheeled vehicle theme continued elsewhere in Feburary; Gardai in the Tipperary Traffic Corp seized a tractor which was being driven – while missing one of its front wheels.

The fourth wheel was tied to the back of a service trailer that it was towing.

The Gardai tweeted photos of the seized tractor on its Traffic Twitter page in mid-February.

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Image: Garda Twitter

Image: Garda Twitter

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The Gardai tweeted that the driver was ‘wheely wheely sorry’.