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a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck or components back, but it should make life harder for the thieves attempting to use or sell your property.
Operator Mark Reddington is hoping that the registration numbers—G244 OKM, G623 FEY and J653 BCJ—etched in large letters on the tops of three cabs may lead to the recovery of his Mercedes-Benz 1735 tractive units missing since the end of November.
Respraying the white vehicles will not hide the markings, unless the whole cab is repainted in the same material used to paint the lettering, says Reddington: "And that's going to be very expensive business."
Two of the tractors were stolen from a lorry park in Essex—which Reddington refuses the name for fear of tipping off potential thieves—on 25 November, while the J-registered unit disappeared during the night of 4 January from a lorry park in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.
"I think there's a ring of thieves operating in the Bromsgrove area in the Midlands," says Reddington.
G623 FEY carries the chassis number 65512225452207 and engine 44296320512703; equivalent numbers for G244 OKM are 65512225441348 and 44296320504934, and for J653 BCJ, are 65512225469259 and 44296320524724.
A E500 reward for information leading to the recovery of the vehicles is being offered.
Contact David Higgs at DH Commercials (Leasing) on (0299 251087).
AMercedes 7.5-tonne flat-bed lorry has been stolen in Nottingham.The white vehicle, registration D7910KP, was stolen on the night of 28 December from a lockup yard at Greasly Street, Bulwell, Nottingham.
It belonged to family firm Gurr Transport and has the company name on the front of the cab.
Chassis number is 67401325288904 and engine number is 36690520053501.
Contact (0602) 756297.
Owner-driver Gordon Elliot has only four years to retirement and his Seddon Atkinson tipper— registration F901 DEX—was stolen on 9 December from a gravel yard where he has worked for 33 years.
The green Seddon Atkinson 311 6x4 disappeared from the Weybread gravel pit near Diss, Norfolk and carries a headboard with "Gordon R Elliot" in red. The vehicle's chassis number is 85671.
"I've only got four years to go before I leave this business," says Elliot, "and in 30 years as a driver, something like this has never happened to me before. As an owner-driver, it's put me out of business."
Contact Elliot on (0319) 853477.