A truck hauling new Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) cars to customers in Norway recently was involved in an accident that resulted in two of the company’s Model S sedans to be crushed. The incident has led CEO Elon Musk to call for a slowdown in deliveries to Norwegian customers.

On a per capita basis, Norway is Tesla’s largest market. It’s very success has presented a problem however. According to a report at Electrek, shipments of new cars to the Norwegian port of Drammen have led to capacity issues. To overcome those issues Tesla has been shipping vehicles to the Swedish port of Gothenburg and then moving the vehicles by truck to their destinations.

According to a report at NRK.no (courtesy of Google Translate), five trucks have been turned back at the border “with serious shortcomings,” including one that had bad brakes on both the tractor and the trailer.

One truck that was stopped was an older model of the Euro 3 class, a European classification system for vehicle emissions. Euro 3 was the European standard between 1999 and 2005 and is 10-times more polluting than the current Euro 6 standard.

A Tesla spokesperson in Norway said:

We are working to clean up. The bad cargoes will be removed as soon as we find alternatives. We have asked the Norwegian Trucking Federation to help find other suppliers that have capacity for our volume.

An additional headache for Tesla is that it expected to deliver more than 1,000 cars in Norway this month, ahead of closing its first fiscal quarter of the year. Electrek cited registration data that showed Tesla delivered just over 300 vehicles during January and February.

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