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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.
• CM guarantees publicity for any operator unfortunate enough to 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.
,0 wner-driver Mark Austin had his only truck stolen three weeks ago. The Mercedes 1644 38-tonne tractive unit, which Austin had owned for only six months, has standard red with white stripe Mercedes livery.
It was stolen from a locked compound in Coombe Valley Road, Dover between 21:00hrs on Saturday 19 December and 09:00hrs on Sunday 20 December. The vehicle has "TF & MA Austin" on its top spoiler.
Registration number is E95814.1 and chassis number is 645192/25/311033. Engine number is 442 951/20/011489.
Contact Mark Austin on (0304) 203014 or (0304) 201495.
£700 reward is being offered this week for information leading to the return of an articulated unit and trailer owned by Cambridge-based operator L&H Transport. The two-vehicle company had the £20,000 worth of equipment stolen from its yard at Linton last month. The Leyland Roadtrain tractive unit, registration number C637 OAV, and Crane Fruehauf bulk aluminium tipping trailer, number A108 736, are both painted dark green.
The trailer, which had contained milling wheat, had a donkey engine fitted and a green sheet.
Contact Shaun Levitt or Mick Hills on (0223) 891971.
shbourne-based AK Transport fell foul of the latest round of truck thefts in Derbyshire earlier this month, when its two-tone blue Mercedes-Benz 1635 was stolen from its yard.
The liveried 4x2 tractor unit, registration D186YFW, went missing on Wednesday 16 December between 20:10hrs and 22:15hrs. It can be identified by chassis number 64512225304438 and engine number 42295020010453.
Owner Tony Kent is thankful he lost only the truck which he values at around £10,000. It was unhitched from a 12m AHP tri-axle flatbed which was loaded with limestone and left in the yard.
The construction and building materials haulier lost a trailer around four and a half years ago, when Kent says the last truck theft epidemic hit Derbyshire.
Contact Tony Kent on (0335) 42958.