I wonder how they got the truck to stop with two people in it?
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
Wasn’t the “Security” a lone woman sitting in the passenger seat of the original tractor?
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work. Also iPhone are nearly all matched parts on newer models so wouldn’t even be much use as spare parts unless you have to kit to read and write the old serial numbers to the new parts and AFAIK only certain parts can be used currently as spares even with the right kit. . So the whole shipment is worth an absolute fraction of the total cost I would think.
Can’t you transfer a sim card from another Iphone into a shiny new nicked one?
The-Snowman:
If it was Iphones, is it £5 million resale value or £5 million at cost to Apple? Come to think of it, cost to apple would need a [zb] container ship to hold £5 million worth!
Cost to apple - would be less than a fiver per unit - woudn’t it?
Slave Labour mining the lathenides, Slave labour assembly plants, and newly-created UK slaves to buy the things on tick we’ll then not be able to afford to pay back come January…
elsa Lad:
When I used to do very high value loads, a trailer load would be divided into three trailers and your would drive in convey 3 drivers 3 artics and it you would be in big big trouble if you break the convey up. Thieves wouldn’t get a chance, you not allowed to stop for a pee or for any other reason(not good if you got the runs)
You’re not allowed to stop for a pee at Royal Mail… Gotta have your passport to get into Airport depot offices like HWDC, even when just dropping off the airmail, rather than picking up anything that’s just cleared customs… Armed guards at these places of course.
The only time I thought I was going to be hijacked over the last 30 years - is when I was taking a 45 in a layby one night driving for Langdons, Cheese and Meat on back, and some van pulled right up my arse, whilst another at the same time parked right in front of me, and then reversed slowly to close the gap at the front of my cab…
It is times like that - one finds out just how good one’s steering lock is… I didn’t wait for the van door to slide open, and the inevitable stirrup pump & Oil Drum combination to appear in the gloom…
I don’t look out for the “Brudders” themselves, but rather their apparatus, them all being tools and all… 
stuwozere1:
If it wasn’t the driver or security guard who was the insider, then I’d go for the planner or dispatcher. To have all the things in place to ensure they stole what they did shows clear forward planning, not just a bunch of chancers who followed the truck.Sent from my ONEPLUS A5000 using Tapatalk
Hardly a planner then! Everything in its place and forward planning suggests a chancer to me. 
I can’t see anywhere if it was a tautliner trailer or not ? The phones would be useless as they have nicked right hand phones and the left hand operated phones are somewhere else, a bit like the Italian’s exporting left footed shoes in different trailers.
How do you stop a lorry driven by someone else…? Truck robbery at 7.45pm on a Tuesday on a slip road onto the M1 - what is this, a 3rd world country? They definitely knew the goods were worth stealing; security guard - really? LOL. Remember my thread about bringing a gun with you to work if you were allowed to? Yeah it got moved to Off Topic because apparently truck driver assaults are not relevant to driving in any way, they’re just fantasies.
When i first heard about this on the news, i thought why the frec would anybody go to the trouble of nicking a load of apple products. Unless it was cider.
Tarmaceater:
I can’t see anywhere if it was a tautliner trailer or not ? The phones would be useless as they have nicked right hand phones and the left hand operated phones are somewhere else, a bit like the Italian’s exporting left footed shoes in different trailers.
The number of pallets (48) would suggest it was a double decker of some description OR very small half-sized pallets…
Harry Monk:
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work.The thieves probably know a way around this, especially if the phones end up on the streets in Asia.
Not sure if Apple have any of their own protection systems that the operators have to follow, but I was told that (in Pakistan at least) phones with the IMEI number blocked in the UK can be taken there and used. Not sure how, and weather it involves tinkering with the IMEI number or not.
stargazer148:
Already a thread on this winseer cheers Ray
I’ve just merged the two topics into one. 
Cheers Dave Ray
Anyone actually know whose truck it was? Surprised this hasn’t been asked yet.
On the other hand, I would pay serious money never to never have to visit Crick or Magna Park ever again.
Winseer:
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work. Also iPhone are nearly all matched parts on newer models so wouldn’t even be much use as spare parts unless you have to kit to read and write the old serial numbers to the new parts and AFAIK only certain parts can be used currently as spares even with the right kit. . So the whole shipment is worth an absolute fraction of the total cost I would think.Can’t you transfer a sim card from another Iphone into a shiny new nicked one?
In theory, a phone whose IMEI has been blocked cannot be used on any UK mobile phone network. This has nothing to do with the SIM.
In practice though…
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The offload was done in Eldon Way, Crick.
TomCrin:
The offload was done in Eldon Way, Crick.
I remember that place…
Did a drop there in 2011 for a firm called “Secure Mail” from Crossways Dartford. The unit the drop was made to - seems to have been demolished around 2015, and replaced with a brand new unit.
The other time was later in 2011 in Eldon Road (or rather the mouth of Eldon Close) when I did a straight trailer swap for Langdons out of Dover with a scouse driver who was there before me, and had dropped his trailer on uneven ground, casuing me a bit of bother at the time as I remember…
I recall a sainsburys place being present on that estate back then as well, but that seems to have disappeared since as well.