Crossed postings and just read your last
Good to see you support it and signed up 
John…
Let me make it very simple so you can understand.
TruckNet UK DOES support the text alert
TruckNet UK has allowed a direct Link to the text alert information on Truckersworld
Members of this websites management team are members of the Text alert team
I am personally ensuring that the message about text alert reaches the editors of Reed Business Information transport group printed titles.
Good to see you support it and signed up
I havent…
Other members of the management team who still drive trucks on a daily basis have…
Rikki-UK:
John…Let me make it very simple so you can understand.
I am quite simple but understand most things, especially when told like a six year old
TruckNet UK DOES support the text alert
TruckNet UK has allowed a direct Link to the text alert information on Truckersworld
Members of this websites management team are members of the Text alert team
I am personally ensuring that the message about text alert reaches the editors of Reed Business Information transport group printed titles.Very good to hear, wait to see the proof in the pudding like the link on T/Net, where is it?
Good to see you support it and signed up
I havent…
Tut Tut :evil:Other members of the management team who still drive trucks on a daily basis have…
Good on Ya all
Rikki-UK:
Other members of the management team who still drive trucks on a daily basis have…
i thought you still did Rikki 
scanny77:
Rikki-UK:
Other members of the management team who still drive trucks on a daily basis have…i thought you still did Rikki
Don’t be silly, He is management now.
Notice the new title Community Manager, not Admin
no longer one of us Drivers 
Actually he stopped driving for health reasons, John…a long time before the site was sold off. I’m sure he’ll be happy to show you his 70-odd tumours if you ask him.
Another assumption proved way off the mark.
Lucy:
Another assumption proved way off the mark.
No assumption made 
Just a fact that he is now Community Manager not Admin.
and no longer drives.
hopefully back to thread topic now
2 more hijackings and what are we going to do to try and stop it happening again.
It could be me, you or any other member of this site. no one is safe
Just wanted you to know that the site was sold because he was no longer able to bring in an income driving, not the other way around. I’m sure Rikki would gladly be healthy and driving again, given the choice. In fact I know he would. We’re not all that lucky, though.
I’m the one in this house who tramps full-time, hence I’m the one who gets the text alerts.
JohnGr:
Wheel Nut:
Support What?I already support the BBC with my licence fee.
I dont see what you are trying to promote.
And dont suggest I dont care when I took the time to answer the post. I asked W-TF you were taling about
Ask Admin or Mods and then I can tell you.
It is on another truckers websiteA truck Theft Text Alert for drivers to sign up to and be alerted if a lorry is stolen
I ain’t being ignorant by not telling you, if I do I would be banned
all you had to do was to put the link in like Scanny77 has to the other thread and Rikki has published the link to it. Would save a lot of heated discussion.
johngr
remember this thread from the feedback forum
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=22150
as promised the thread was split between the bickering and the original was put back in the pdf
http://www.trucknetuk.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=21550&highlight=text+alert
if the thread died off what more can we do and if there was no intrest shown then what makes you think there will be now, when you come back with the same attitued that got the original thread locked in the first place…
if folk dont want to sign up to it then its there choice but ramming it down peoples throats and calling them a prat if they dont aint gonna change there minds 
jon.
jon
This is one bizarre thread.
I’ve just spent ten minutes of my life reading it and I just don’t see why JohnGr is so angry 
I am signed up to the text alert. I have the sticker in my windscreen.
If I saw another driver in bother I would try and give assistance regardless of who they were. And I think that most people on here would.
John, while I see that you don’t want another driver to go through what you may have seen, sometimes the way you put your message across could put other people’s backs up. Even if you don’t intend to - which I’m sure you don’t.
At times it does seem like you have it in for TNUK.
I also think that if you were more involved with other discussions, people might not get on your case so much. To be honest, we only seem to hear from you when this subject comes up.
If you were in your local and some bloke you didn’t know started telling you the pub that you were in was no good - would you listen to him or move away from him??
I have no doubt that your intentions are good, but I think you need to alter the way in which you put your arguments over.
Johngr, you stated in your opening thread, the last line, that you have been a victim… I presume you mean you have been hi-jacked / attacked when driving your truck.
Given the strength of feeling in your postings (the first two edited for language and personal attacks) have you considered that you maybe suffering from a degree of post traumatic stress dis-order.
I say this without any form of sarcasm…PTSD if left untreated can cause serious problems.
Again, it`s just a question without any hidden meaning.
Or it might be just someone on here who is sick of the crap
have i got this right?
you are getting hijacked and you phone the police they notify the scheme and they text all the drivers in the scheme, is that how it works?
I have been a victim and hate the thought of others having to go through it.
i take it you were in the services or somewhere else away from your vehicle when it was stolen?
i only ask this because when somebody puts a gun to your head and bundles you onto the bunk facing the back of the cab, the last thing you’re going to be thinking about is phoning the police.
trust me the only thing you’re going to do is keep quiet and let them do what they’re doing, if it all goes to plan all you’re going to get is the initial roughing up when they pile into the cab.
while having a dig at everyone thats not back patting you and saying they’ve signed up you seem to be taking delight at having a pop at rikki,
rikki knows the dangers more than most who spout about it on here, i’ve personally run in convoy with him on a rat run we used to do in milan when the firm we worked for lost a load every few weeks to hijackers.
the only protection we had for a while was ourselves hence the convoys in, and it only stopped when we had armed guards meet us on the italian side of the blanc and ■■■■■■ us into milan.
the only ones who were ever hurt were the ones who fought back
this is about firms letting the scheme know a wagon has been stolen so other drivers can keep an eye out for it, not for reporting a hijacking.
JohnGr:
Yet again we drivers are facing more danger, and nothing seems to be done about it.I posted on here about a Alert on another site, how many have bothered to sign up to it yet.
Read “Mike c” posting about it
I read one or two opening posts of text alerts and have never so much as looked at it since nor would i,
Trouble is he did not read it properly and took it completely wrong,
A prat !! I read it right. The big problem i have with the idea of me participating, you of course can do what you like, is that i am not an unpaid vigilante/police officer. I pay for a police force as do all of us, i’ll be dammed if i’m going out spotting anyones lorries. Now here is just my guess, i could of course be wrong its been known before. Curtain slashings etc are probably just opportunistic, when you get to pulling people out of cabs/ hijacked etc. i reckon most are ‘inside info’ jobs anyway. I don’t think i’ve heard of anyone being bumped off for a trailer full of paper reels. On the other hand there’s lots of computer/electrical/booze loads been bumped. Do you think Securicor let their high value cash drivers stop anywhere willy nilly? Like i said, if anyone should be concerned its the operator of the truck, he is the one who should be worrying where his driver and load is and are they both ok. You’ll probably see as much action out of operators over driver saftey as you see them kicking up about parking facilities. Having said all that i drove a taxi on nights for about 8 yrs (or more) so i’m kinda used to looking out for myself. But you go right on ahead and keep texting, you might save lives, don’t let me put you off.
Let me try an say my last piece on this, to save it going round in circles.
firstly I apologies if it has antagonised or up set anyone, that is not the intention.
I am trying to highlight something that I consider important and may not always come across that way. Crime affects us all and we should do what we can to help beat it.
Mike c again writes between the lines, Sod you as long as I’m OK.
This is the problem, we must start to learn to fight together, stick up for each other and watch each others back. We should all be bothered for the safety of another driver it could be you next.
The French have it right, they stand together and get results.
Like Mike c, the UK trucker only cares about himself and this must change, something like crime could be the start by showing we can work together support eac other and help eachother.
Those that have signed up, fantastic, and lets hope more do.
This was started to bring it back to the top rather than scrolling out of site.
So if Management consider it such a good idea, lets see a link or sticky for a month or so.
Again apologies if up setting anyone, but Mike c read it properly and then I might not call you a name, you have got it all wrong. and mislead members on here.
It is an alert to inforrm drivers of a stloen vehicle, not policing or security.
Now to please you all I will shut up and go away, never to darken your doors again.
John
Now to please you all I will shut up and go away, never to darken your doors again.
John
shame \i’ve hada good laugh at your ramblings 
JohnGr:
but Mike c read it properly and then I might not call you a name, you have got it all wrong. and mislead members on here.It is an alert to inforrm drivers of a stloen vehicle, not policing or security.
I havn’t got it all wrong at all, nor misled anyone . Your post is entitled “Another 2 hijackings”, the original post i answered that you brought here was along the lines of enough is enough, how long before a driver gets killed. Now it turns out its a stolen vehicle alert? You havn’t upset or antagonised me, if you’ve got something to say i’ll listen. The best placed person to look after your security is yourself. Be aware of what you are carrying and where you park. I couldn’t tell you the registration of a truck i’m driving without getting out to look at the number plate or maybe the keyfob, then i have trailer numbers/mileage/driving time in my head etc. how a text alert of a stolen truck would stay in there as well i don’t know, ok we know there mightent be much room! If you’re so passionate about protecting truckers i suggest you go to some deserted laybys where they park and ask them, why do they put themselves in danger like that? Then you’ll find out the answer, i already know the answer.
Apologies to ■■■■ into this one but,
this post has common sense replies from both camps, and all are to do with the education of drivers and that unfortunately life as a driver is not easy. If you are running a high value load don’t run until your forced stop is a layby in Moss Side. JohnGR is rightly upset about a subject that should affect us all(sorry should I say will affect us all) at some time or another.
John know one post on here bar the flippent ones do anyhthing more than inforce that drivers need to be aware of their surroundings and their loads. It is a very dangerous world that we live in and drivers should be equipped by training or other means to ensure that they are not a victim. John if you are a professional driver as I am sure you are you will realise that time constraints implaced by employers mean that most of the time overnight is spent in sites with little or no services or security.
I fully support a method of warning other drivers by test of a stolen truck etc. anything that can be done to make our lives better is a plus point for me. However IMO a campaign for safe economical parking areas to ensure the safe keeping of the life blood of this country and the promotion/recognition of drivers as a professional body undertaking one of the most tasking jobs in industry and pay that reflects this proffesionalism is the goal that will benefit the nation as a whole.
We carry the power the food the clothes and everyting else that keeps the country going and yet we are crapped on by every ruling party, IF YOU WANT TO FIGHT FOR A CAUSE LET IT BE THIS ONE!!! and I wish you every success John
JohnGr:
I am trying to highlight something that I consider important and may not always come across that way. Crime affects us all and we should do what we can to help beat it.
Respondents list and report from the recent MSA consultation. Which one is you on the list John? Is it JG Graham?
highways.gov.uk/roads/docume … ponses.pdf