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• CM guarantees free publicity for any operator unfortunate enough to become a victim of truck crime. It may not get your truck, trailer or components back, but at least it could make life harder for the thieves attempting to use or sell your property.
• Leyland Daf has offered to further the Crimeline cause by putting its vehicle tracking system at the service of CM readers.
Product and environmental affairs manager Gibb Grace says the truck manufacturer can "quite easily and quickly" make cross-checks between registration numbers, engine numbers and even numbers of major components in its trucks which could help to identify a stolen vehicle.
"Any CM reader who is suspicious that, for example, an engine they have bought is not bona-fide in any way should get in touch," says Grace. "We know which parts should be in which vehicles." Any vetted information can then be circulated via Leyland Dais aftersales team to alert dealers nationwide.
"I trust this assistance will further improve the effectiveness of Crimeline and thus help to reduce the cost and disruption that vehicle thefts inevitably cause," adds Grace.
• A Z500 reward has been offered by Bedford-based Rogers Transport for information leading to a conviction about the theft of a Volvo F10 from its depot.
Transport manager Ian Montgomery says the vehicle, a 6x2 twin-steer tractive unit, was stolen from company premises at Hammond Road, Elms Industrial Estate, Bedford, between 17:30hrs on Saturday 16 May and 08:00hrs on Sunday 17 May.
The missing tractor, registration number C69 GFC, has a white cab, black chassis and air horns and spotlights on the red sun visor. The chassis number is GA 03334010 and the engine number 180288.
The vehicle belongs to Ti Lea Transport, a brick haulier and one of Rogers' sub-contractors who uses part of the depot.
The tractor had been coupled to a trailer in the yard but the trailer was not taken.
"There were other vehicles on the premises as well," says Montgomery, "but it would appear that the thieves had targeted the 6x2. They cut through a fence and a set of gates but there was very little debris from the break-in."
Contact Ian Montgomery on (0234) 219268/(0234) 364593. • A missing ERF 4x2 tractive unit belonging to Staffordshire operator Steetley Transport has been found 50km away in Manchester — but without its trailer and load of 10,000 bricks.
The vehicle went missing sometime between 21:00hrs on Friday 8 May and 7:30hrs on Saturday 9 May from the company's locked depot at Hilditch Road, Chesterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme. The tractor was found five days later at Westinghouse Road, Old Trafford, Manchester.
"The vehicle had been spotted by one of our drivers on 11 May but he assumed that its driver had popped away for a cuppa," says transport manager John Jones. "But then the same driver saw it three days later parked in the same place and informed the police."
No damage had been done to the unit and none of the driver's gear was missing, reports Jones, but the trailer — a TIP-owned triaxle Crane Fruehauf trailer with an Atlas roller crane — had gone with its load of bricks.
The chassis number is JS 2677777502 and the fleet number is TIP 170533.
Contact John Jones on (0782) 562284.