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• Mercedes 1625.32, reg 89 D 1459: Dublin owner-driver Ted Treston of Ted Transport is offering a £2,500 reward for information leading to the recovery of his truck, stolen from Kilarney Street in the Irish capital. It was last spotted at 01:30hrs on 14 April. Treston's red and yellow truck has his phone numbers written above the windscreen. Its chassis number is 5145560814315 with engine number 114221946145112. He suspects it might be in use in England.
Contact: Dublin 746145.
• Scania dealer Scantruck in Purfleet recently had a G-reg R143 stolen from its premises.
Three weeks later salesman Paul Hughes was returning from a Saturday night out when he spotted the truck and a driver in a layby.
Hughes tried to apprehend the driver, but being on crutches after a Scantruck football tournament that was easier said than done.
The driver sped off, almost knocking him over. Hughes and his friends followed the truck for 35km before catching the attention of a police car and the police officers duly arrested the driver.
The truck is now back in Scantruck's showroom. • Humberside Police have recorded the latest in a spate of thefts with the loss last week of a loaded trailer from I&J Craig Transport's yard at Grimsby.
This is just one of 12 haulage losses in the region since the beginning of the year — each time the thieves are believed to have targetted valuable loads. The previous theft was a tractive unit, trailer and load of steel taken at the end of last month from the Goole area.
On the night of 12 April the criminals hack-sawed through the yard gate, broke into a Renault tractive unit, smashed the steering lock, unhitched the trailer and brought in another vehicle to drive the trailer away.
The load of 24 tonnes of aluminium was worth £21,000.
The E20,000 Fruehauf tri-axle tilt trailer belongs to transport company Frans Maas and has "Frans Maas" in yellow lettering on blue. Its chassis number is 89890828.
Part of the load has been discovered at the junction of the M18 and Al.
A Humberside police spokesman says: "The south bank of the Humber has been worst hit, but there are many vehicles parked up overnight going to and from the steel works...we can't rule out a link between the thefts."
Contact 18d Craig on (0472) 360501. IN A mystery trailer has been found on the Pimbo Industrial Estate, Skelmersdale, and it has been taken to the yard of Skelmserdale-based MAP Distribution for safe keeping.
The yellow and green tilt trailer was built at South Derry Coachworks in 1986 and has three-axle RO-R running gear. Its chassis number is R00599. It still contains its load of packaging material.
Tony May of MAP says: "We thought it looked suspicious because some of the load was hanging out, so we reported it."
Contact: Skelmersdale Police on (0695) 24101 or Tony Hay at MAP Distribution on (0695) 50001.
• Thieves do not restrict their activities to general haulage CVs: at about 04:00hrs on 9 April a car recovery vehicle was snatched from Lantern Commercial's base at Caxton Hill, Hertford.
The black Mercedes 814, reg G788 PYJ, has a slide-back recovery body with a spectacle lift to handle a second car, a hydraulic winch and a full-width beacon. It is not signwritten but does have a full-length yellow reflective stripe.
The chassis number is 67401325439573 with engine number 36609520936782.
Contact (0992) 589311.