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leading to the recovery of its Volvo A25 dump truck. The unit went missing between the night of Sunday 27 March and the next morning from a roadworks site on the Al 40, Scale Bypass, in Norfolk. Its reg is H139 VPW and its serial number is 6845.
Contact David Phelan on (095387) 8441.
Thieves made off with a Ford Transit which was loaded with coffin lids outside the Terry Smith factory at Sutton in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire.
The van, registration D760 SBW, went missing between 28-29 March. It has a white cab and a blue Luton body. Its chassis number is SFACXXBDVCHD76606 and its engine number is HD76606.
Contact Terry Smith on (0623) 550765.
AScania 142 6x4 tractive unit was stolen from Callaghan Demolition of Beddington, near Croydon between 19:00hrs on 25 April and 07:00 the next day. The Scania has an STGO2 plate and is used for hauling heavy rock-crushing plant. The trailer was unhitched before the unit was stolen from the company's enclosed depot
The cab is dark blue with yellow stripe. It has a sun visor with four spotlights on top, two amber roof flashers, spotlights on the bumper and chrome wheels.
The tractor's reg is E 228 TWY, engine number is 5535085 and the chassis identification is 1132426.
Contact Stuart Galbraith on (0737) 832273.
An owner-driver has lost his truck less than a week after fitting it with a £6,500 self-loading crane. Nigel Pindar's DoE 2100 turbo six-wheel flatbed was stolen on the night of 25 April from an unlocked yard in Newmarket, Suffolk. He regularly parked at the site and believes the thieves were only interested in his Effer 80L bright yellow crane. The truck is also fitted with a beaver tail ramp, has a mid blue and white cab, signwritten Nigel Pindar Transport. Its registration is P81 419W and its chassis number is 204464,
Contact (0638) 663143.
Falling in love off a lorry
oust to show there is true romance in our industry, congratulations are due to Scottish LGV driver Catherine McClachlan who wed her driving instructor Raymond Montgomery of Associated Freight Training eight months after taking her first lesson.
Mind you the course of true love has its cost. Catherine passed her LGV test after six lessons and needed to find a way to go back and see Raymond. She solved the problem by learning to drive a bus as well. Sounds like a fare exchange to me (that's enough dreadful puns—Ed).
Yes and No Minister
0 he question from I,lew Smith MP was simple enough: "Can pressure groups attend the next European Transport Council to advise on the transport of radioactive material?"
The answers were less straightforward. "Yes," said the Department of Transport. "No," said the European Commission. Is this an occasion when no really means yes, or vice versa?
Lonker curtains
ahe Hawk could do with a few extra entries to the .£1,000 curtains competition (CM 7-13 April) and has decided to extend the deadline for entries by two weeks to 20 May.
As you will recall, entrants have to send in a postcard with their company address and phone number and age of the oldest curtains in their fleet which are still in everyday use. The operator with the oldest set of curtains will receive a brand new set courtesy of Structure-Flex, worth up to .f1,000 depending on graphics.
Just to give you an example, haulier John Chadwick of Sandbach, Cheshire has sent in a picture of this set (below), in use since 1977. What's good enough for Jubilee Year is good enough for me. Keep those entries coming. e've all had cause to complain of noisy neighbours upstairs at sometime but Transport Secretary John McGregor must have thought he was dreaming when he was awoken by the sound of a commotion on his roof last week.
This was no dream—it was protesters objecting to the Ml) link road being built through East London. They used a ladder to climb onto the roof of the transport supremo's North London home at dawn before unfurling a huge banner. Later the demonstrators descended with the help of the fire brigade. And the Transport Secretary? He left for work accompanied by several policeman to protect him from falling slogans.
What's in a name?
ii es, its another Channel Tunnel story.
It seems that the name "EurotunneI" is being rejected by some computers as not a real word. Many of you will say that you suspected a lack of reality about the project all along.
Computers with WordPerfect software do not recognise the word and suggest the alternatives "erosional", "eruptional" and "irrational". Anti-Chunnel jingoists might claim that all three have some relevance: who says computers have no sense of humour?
Traffic jam
A sticky situation in Montpellier where in yet another new and novel French protest, 500 tonnes of strawberries were dumped on to a motorway by growers protesting against cheap imports from Spain and Morocco. Dissent is spreading! Give me the cream and the scones and I'll be out there with the best of them.
by the Hawk