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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 orsell your property. Al2m flatbed was handpicked by thieves from a parc of vehicles in McKechnie Motors' yard on the Grangeston Industrial Estate in Girvan last month. The Crane Fruehauf unit can be identified by its red chassis and sides and identification number 136435/75.
Contact transport manager Billy Mitchell on (0465) 2109.
Essex-based Access Freight was astounded when it discovered thieves had targeted its 16-year-old Mercedes-Benz 1632 worth only 25,000.
The Burgundy-painted truck, registration SK 1 N 63IR, went missing from a lorry park in West Hendon, London. The Chelmsford-based owner says thieves could have been attracted to the unliveried vehicle because of its £20,000 load of light bulbs, and the 24,500 refurbishment, including a respray and the re-conditioning of the engine, carried out about six weeks before it was stolen.
Police have since found the 12.5m Van Hool trailer, which had been unhitched from the unit and left empty on a layby on the Al 3 near Dagenham, Essex.
Contact Ken Moss, managing director, on (0245) 495939.
commodore Kitchens is having to subcontract out an average 2300-worth of work a week of haulage after one of its two trucks was stolen from its premises in Grays, Essex on 17 August.
It holds out little hope of recovering the Mercedes-Benz 814, which was stolen from its locked yard overnight, with an £8,000 load of cupboards and cookers. The truck, registration E325 FEV, was white and unliveried.
The theft came at a particularly awkward time, because Commodore Kitchens' other truck is off the road after being involved in an accident. It is therefore having to pay for the hire of a van as well.
Contact David Lewis on (0375) 382323.
Thieves took a great risk of being spotted when they stole Creggan Transport's Scania 142 from a busy industrial estate at Harlow in Essex on the afternoon of 11 August.
The blue and white liveried reefer, which belongs to Creggan in Crossmaglen, County Down, went between 15:30hrs and 19:00hrs. It was loaded with £150,000 worth of beef and has the words Creggan Transport Ireland down its side.
Thieves broke the offside window of the 38-tonner, before making off with the truck, registration JIB 2124, and its 12m box trailer.
Contact Detective Constable Nigel Perry on (0279) 641212
Banks of Sandy is still missing two animal feed distribution trucks which were stolen from a yard on an industrial estate near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on the morning of 26 June.
Both of the eight-wheelers, worth 220,000 each, are ERF E 1 Os fitted with straight bodies. They can be identified by a cream and red livery, the initials AFD on their headboards and registration numbers E456 PAH and E749 5CL Both are fitted with blower equipment, worth 28,000 each.
Contact transport manager John Mastin on (0359) 70566.
Cambridgeshire-based AE Sutton has had two trucks stolen within a couple of days from its site in Chatteris. Both of the rigids, Mercedes-Benz 1314 and 1317, have blue bodies, yellow curtainsides and white rear
doors. They can be identified by the words AE Sutton on the curtains and registration numbers C84 OAV and F214 KVX. Both were loaded with packaging materials, including cardboard and polystyrene Contact Andy Herd on (0354) 693171.
AJ Shaw Transport is turning away an average 2200worth of work a day since its only truck, an ERF C Series, was stolen in broad daylight on Sunday 22 August.
The eight-wheeler, registration CT54 XEH, was taken between 08:00hrs and 10:00hrs from Shaw's operating centre at Thurnaston, Leicestershire. It is fitted with a Neville Charrold aggregates insulated body and is painted in green, red and white. The 29,500 unit can also be recognised by an illuminated signboard over the cab which is marked with the company name. Its chassis number is 53536 and the number of the engine, a Gardner model, is 6LXCT237436.
Contact Anthony Shaw on (0533) 693748.