TN has received a request from Durham Police to post the following…
There have been recent thefts of diesel from HGV’s parked in laybys on the A66 – County Durham between Kirkby Stephen and Scotch Corner.
These thefts are from vehicles parked overnight. Our advice is to avoid stopping in this laybys overnight and to use local truck stops instead.
the local truck stops that are already overflowing or an absolute dump? How about a regular patrol by a police car?
Begorrah and begob! 
I kipped there last night. All fine for me at least.
To be honest I was too knackered to go nicking fuel 
Hammy747:
the local truck stops that are already overflowing or an absolute dump? How about a regular patrol by a police car?
The usual response from them.
They know what crime is being commited, where it is happening and what time it is happening. Much easier to make the problem someone else’s than do their role. They’ve told you to park in the local truckstops (wherever they are, stainmore and Penrith I guess?) so if you park in a layby and some scrote nicks your diesel it’s your fault, don’t say they haven’t warned you.
No wonder the police get next to no respect.
A.
I’m a bit surprised too…
Drivers have to park somewhere when they run out of driver’s hours or they get within striking distance of their next drop and they know it’ll be shut. Either way up, they have to park somewhere!!
My guess is that there’s been a spate of reports of thefts of fuel from parked vehicles, and so the Police have been kind enough to let us know.
Let’s think about this for a minute… each report involves a driver (one of us??) who has had to make an uncomfortable phone his boss and maybe even face his boss’ suspicion… some bosses are like that. 
But then the boss has to bear the extra cost of replacing the fuel (that he’d already paid for ) and additionally suffer an expensive delay whilst it gets delivered to the stricken vehicle. Then there’s more cost and delay if repairs are needed.
However, it doesn’t just end there because, quite possibly, the boss is now going to have to account to a customer for why the delivery is delayed.
It surprises me when bosses won’t pay for parking, then whine about it when that penny-wise but pound-foolish approach goes wrong.
Then there are the Police.
They now have a number of reported thefts, which amount to unsolved crimes that make their detection rates look bad. One of the answers (but not the only answer) is to make people aware of it so that they take a bit more care and possibly save themselves from some grief. In that one regard, surely we’re on the same side as the Police?
IMHO, everybody, including the police, bosses and drivers have a part to play in safeguarding property.
Appleby a bit late this year ■■?/
Just remind me, what exactly is the purpose and the job of the Police?
Think they need reminding also.
Here’s a clue for them…
If you are aware that regular crime is being committed, ‘Police’ the area you feckless bastds !!
There never seems to be a shortage of them on that stretch of road buzzing around, like flies around ■■■■, when carrying out Operation wotsisface , when revenue raising with VOSA. 
robroy:
Just remind me, what exactly is the purpose and the job of the Police?
To protect the ruling elite from a re-run of the French Revolution. 
Not allowed to say on here. But we all know it’s the ■■■■■ scum travelling transit owners that are the culprits. Police won’t touch them. Two parts of society, travellers and police. Both useless scum.
Wasn’t there somewhere to park in brough ,I think I parked in a coach yard one night with a building with a clock on the end ? Didn’t see anyone though ,can’t remember how I found out about it either .
Suspect the biggest problem with that road is many of the laybys you can see cars coming from a long way off, so even if you had patrols several times a night, the thieves will see a car lights and look all innocent by the time it passes or just scarper. Middle of the night there aren’t as many cars around, so less false alarms.
Patrols of course would help for sure to deter the less well organised, but I was once told by a police officer that the number of police during the night around the whole of ■■■■■■■ is as he put it “surprisingly low” and that includes non-traffic. Don’t know the situation on the County Durham side. Day time of course there’s loads, but they don’t cost as much. Cameras would be one option as they’ve got ones by the snow barriers so it shouldn’t be too hard and cheaper than patrols.
As for parking in Brough - erm, depends what else you want vanishing from the truck overnight (the only added the B to make it sound posher). 
raymundo:
Appleby a bit late this year ■■?/
No, the incompetents are only up to June on unsolved crime.
Place I worked at one of the drivers was visited by the diesel fairys down south, they had been disturbed and left a van with an ibc with the contents of the truck’s tank which they removed the sender unit to get to, the police took both away as evidence leaving the owner to sort out by getting a new sender and some diesel supplied by a dealer call out, neither was ever returned.
All our parking is paid, but sometimes you just do not have time to get to a services or truck stop as they are so far and few and through the week they are usually full after 19.00hs, so you have no choice but to go layby hunting.
Two issues are raised here, the police should react in a more proactive way and the authorities (who ever they are) should look at the European model for truck stops.
The UK infrastructure for transport is just aimed at cars and trains.