Transfleet is hit by another hijack • Transfleet Services has been hit by its second hijacking in six weeks.
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One of the company's drivers was threatened by three men armed with a baseball bat at a Shepherd's Bush, west London truckstop last Thursday.
As the 23-year-old driver was getting into his cab at 5.30am, he was grabbed by three men and ordered to hand over the keys to his Iveco Ford 1932, registration G590 BSF. The hijackers made off with the truck and its £6,000 load of Stylo Barratt shoes.
The empty truck was later found abandoned in Peckham, south-east London.
In December agency driver Peter Sahlke, on contract to Transfleet which distributes all Barratt shoes, was kidnapped at a truckstop in Greenwich, also in south-east London.
Brian Clayton, depot manager of Transfleet Services' Bradford site, is now calling for a network of secure, controlled lorry parks to be set up in the London area.