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become 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 or sell your property.
Thieves recently struck twice at John Hudson's trailer supermarket in Doncaster Road, Bawtry, Doncaster. Their haul was a pair of blue Weightlifter curtainsider trailers, taken on 14 and 21 April. The first, fleet number 4836, is 13.6x4.2m with BAW axles and RO-R steel suspension. Its chassis number is 3030 SBW3SPSNMRSBO. The second, fleet number 4804, is 13.6x4m, chassis number 3176 SBW35PSCABRO, with Flexair FL9000 air suspension and RO-R axles. The axle serial numbers are: B538367 H93 0003; B538368 H93 0003 and B538367 H93 0004.
Contact (0302) 710711.
Adistinctive Volvo F12 six-wheel Globetrotter tractor unit was stolen on Sunday 15 May at 18:00hrs from the premises of ASG (Gaunt's) Transport in Be'per, Derby. It has a burgundy metallic roof and lower cab, with the remainder of the sides and front in pearlescent lilac which can glow gold or pink. The company name is prominently displayed on the headboard and sides with a picture of a Pegasus in a rope circle on the front corners.
Registration number F135 RMK with engine number 138965 and chassis YB1 H285C4JB428110.
Contact Tony or Heather Gaunt on (0773) 828289.
Security cameras at Basingstoke Skip Hire recorded a C-registration Granade Ghia at its premises in Wade Road, Basingstoke, Hants, at around the time two tractive units and trailers were stolen during the night of 10/11 May.
One is a 1989 Mercedes 1735, registration G555 XDD; chassis 65512225445419 with engine number 44296320508897. The unit is green and white with Mick Mercer Co on the cab-top wind deflector. It was coupled to a 1988 Wilcox alloy tipping trailer full of waste running on a Seadyke chassis on super singles. The other unit is a
A0,000 reward is offered for the recovery of three vehicles stolen from Ponders End Cash & Carry's depot at Britannia Road, Waltham Cross, Herts, between 21:00 and 23.00hrs on Friday, 6 May. All three are Mercedes two-axle rigid body box vans. The first is an 817 with a Baico extended chassis and a 251t Hunt alloy box body which is dark blue with a white cab and a white cab-roof air deflector with blue and red flash side collars. Its registration is L663 ULT with chassis number WDB 67600425815356. and engine yOU CAN NOW FIGHT THE TRUCK THIEVES With the Commercial Motor, Iveco Ford, Road Haulage Association Trucktheft Action Pack. The pack tells you everything you need to know to prevent your truck from being next on the thieves' hit list and what to do if you do become a victim.
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white 1990 Mercedes 1735, registration G136 GUP, chassis 6551 2225471295, with engine 44296320523417. It was coupled to a 1988 Wilcox 55cu yd bulk tipping trailer on super singles full of cast scrap metal. A substantial reward has been offered.
Contact Mick Mercer (0256) 22088.
Hales Waste Control's locked compound near Maidstone was broken into overnight over the weekend of Saturday to Monday 14-16 May and two skip lorries were taken. They are orange and black Leyland Maclifts. The first has the registration number B537 UKX, chassis number E4T34LLBE33455, engine number 844 0046. The second has the registration number C537 DIM, engine number 8443660, chassis number 5BLE4135L1AF39741.
Contact R Sinden on (0992) 627441.
Luton Transport at Blackburn Road, Townsend Industrial Estate, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Beds, had a Daf 2100 six-wheel drop-sided rigid stolen overnight on 10/11 May. It is equipped with a Carlo Pesci P1200 rearmounted crane and was loaded with a 51008 Hyster fork-lift truck. The Dar has a dark green cab, a white roof with the company's logo and a black triple drop sided body. Its registration number is FRO 56Y. The Hyster's serial number is A17A 1922 and it has a jib attachment.
Contact Chris Morley on (0582) 472737 or (0836) 213746.
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The other vehicles are 814s: one has a similar livery to the 817 and a Baico extended chassis with a 25ft Hunt alloy box body. Its registration is H212 FLD with chassis number 674 01325516060, and engine 36690520990991. The other 814 has a 22ft GRP box body painted in off white with a white cab which has a grey roof wind deflector. Its registration is E240 LYH with chassis number 674 01425331087 and engine number 36690520072632.