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TruckWatch organisers plan to extend anti-crime scheme
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Yorkshire hauliers are being asked to support a crime-fighting scheme proposed for the whole
region Guy Sheppard reports.
,1/4 MAJOR EXPA SION of FruckWatch throughout Yorkihire and Humberside is planned n a bid to encourage similar selflp security schemes for hauliers elsewhere in the country.
Truck Watch is backed hy trade issociations and the police; it uses he drivers of member companies o look out for stolen vehicles.
Since 1997 it has been run by the 'eople I Jit ited Against Crime RAC) charity in South York ; hire, where it has more than I (X) limber companies operating a otal of 7,2(X) vehicles.
Now Pt. JAC chief executive David Ransom wants to expand he concept into West and North Yorkshire as well as I lumberside it an estimated cost of L75,000, with funding from the regional development agency.
"These counties appear among the top end of areas experiencing truck crime,he says." If we could successfully get something across a region like this then there will he a bigger model to point to for national support...
Although TruckWatch has been set up elsewhere in the LIK, the network in South Yorkshire has been by far the most successful.
H owever, a £250 reward for any driver who helps catch truck thieves has not been paid for two years and Ransom acknowledges the scheme has not led to a huge fall in truck crime.
Membership costs up to .f.:100 year, depending on fleet size.