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losing his second truck to thieves within six months: it could leave him thousands of pounds in debt. Ian Adams fears he will not be able to revitalise his two-year-old business if he does not recover most of the 221,000 he spent on the Volvo FL10 from his insurance company.
He recovered only 27,900 for the Seddon Atkinson he had stolen in October last year, on which he spent 218,000 The Volvo six-wheeler tractor, reg D771 SLIJ, was stolen from the Cobbswood Industrial Estate in Ashford, Kent at 19:40hrs on Thursday 31 March. Witnesses saw the white unit, with a red bumper and front wheel arches, being driven away, after its flatbed trailer had been unhitched, It can be identified with the remnants of a former livery For Wells Soft Drinks and a couple of chrome spotlights on its roof. Its chassis number is HC881898 and its engine number is TD101F.
The Volvo was stolen less than a kilometre away from where Adams' Seddon Atkinson went missing on a layby on the A20 outside the Hare and Hound pub in Ashford. The red and white unit, reg E309 ONG, is still missing.
Contact Ian Adams on (0233) 646324.