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Thanks, the thieves had a smashing time...
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As thieves nearly take out two
lanes of traffic in his truck Simon Coulston finds relief from the
industry...in an unconventional way.
To bring you all up to date with the hijacking that we experienced last month, here's what happened next.With a lengthy description of our unit and trailer (both bright silver) given by our driver moments after the incident had occurred, the police still managed to pull over the wrong vehicle, buying the thieves more time to get away. So what more was there for us to do at this point, other than sit and wait and hope that the vehicle came back in a recognisable state?
After many calls to the police that day, anxious to hear of any news on the vehicle's whereabouts, I decided to make my final call of the evening when I was told that the unit minus trailer had been recovered to a local garage.
I made my way down to see the state my vehicle had been left in. On arriving at the garage I must admit! was blown away to see a vehicle in which I had taken such pride, reduced to nothing more than a crumpled wreck. As the story began to unfold, we were told that the hijackers had managed to career our fully laden artic across two flowing lanes of traffic, smashing over the central reservation, all near the city centre. If ever there was time for CCTV not to be out of action it was now, but to our misfortune all the city cameras were out this day"due to the control centre relocating".
Burn it off
On a lighter note, in response to a piece in CM on 23 June,! have a solution for driver weight problems, which! stumbled upon while waiting to load.
I was always a keen amateur boxer, and having an old punch bag lying around! thought what better place than suspended on the back of the trailer? When waiting in the inevitable queues at Tesco and Sainbury's you can at least burn off any RDCinduced frustration and get fit at the same time! •