Driver makes off with wine
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E Police are trying to find a truck driver who used false de ments to get a job with a haulage company and then dis peered with a £50.000 cargo of wine.
The vehicle, owned by Roadway International Haulagi Aldridge, West Midlands, failed to arrive at its destinatioi Telford just over three weeks ago. The Scania was faun few days later abandoned at Stafford Park, Telford, but w out its load of wine.
A police spokesman at Aldridge says: "The driver, who dark haired and in his thirties, used a false name and a sti driving licence when he applied for the job at the Roadl firm. We are very keen to find this man."
A Roadway spokesman said that the company raised alarm after a customer phoned to say the delivery had been made. "When the police found the lorry all the driv personal things were still in the cab, like his boots, clgarel and lighter and his tea and coffee making things," he ai But all the wine, worth £50,000, was gone."
The Scania is red with white stripes and four spotlig on the roof. The trailer is blue with the name Frans Maa yellow lettering on the side. The police hope that someb might have seen someone acting in a suspicious man with the stolen unit.