After reading the Lockerbie beware thread , it got me thinking about incidents of theft that I was confident were done by other drivers . For example , I’ve been relieved of my derv a number of times ( mostly abroad) at least twice by other drivers I suspect, adblue caps taken , so to light covers . Some plastics/trim etc . Like the Lockerbie poster who was relieved of his wing tops , that will only really be another driver unless the caravan and transit owners club are moving into trucking . Is driver on driver crime on the up , has it always been around or just. One offs
I’ve nothing against foriegn drivers, But since the Expansion of the EU to the Eastern and Central states it’s been on the increase.
I’d love to believe that it didn’t happen.
But as you say, who else has got use for a light lens, or a mud flap, or wheel trim. All because someone doesn’t have the sense not to have a “minor bumpette”, nor the stones to tell the gaffer afterwards…
F-reds
If it happened at all it was rare.
People are different now, little in the way of honour principles or values, they live by no code of behaviour, their word means nothing, they take what they want, its normal now…well everyone does it from the very top where greed and ambition and lack of honour is rife and revered…see MP’s for the best examples.
Lorry drivers are a cross section of people of their time and generation, and reflect the general descent into what we’ve seen this once fine country and people become over the last 4 or 5 decades.
My dad reckons it went on in the 60’s/70’s, sheets/chains etc etc getting nicked.
I had one of my gloves nicked once, I have hidden the other one 
F-reds:
nor the stones to tell the gaffer afterwards…
F-reds
I have worked at places where scratches and stonechips have brought disciplinaries, truly awful some management out there, add that to the bringing in of paying the excess too, then looting by our road brothers will unfortunatly become more commonplace.
Juddian:
If it happened at all it was rare.People are different now, little in the way of honour principles or values, they live by no code of behaviour, their word means nothing, they take what they want, its normal now…well everyone does it from the very top where greed and ambition and lack of honour is rife and revered…see MP’s for the best examples.
Lorry drivers are a cross section of people of their time and generation, and reflect the general descent into what we’ve seen this once fine country and people become over the last 4 or 5 decades.
Don’t fall into the old trap of looking through rose tinted glasses and believing old blighty was a more honest place in the old days.We have all heard of the old gangsters who controlled the cities, child abuse was rife but was swept under the carpet as it was a taboo subject, women were treated as second class citizens…i could go on abd on.
They say you could leave your door open in the old days and not worry about being robbed.Thats because there was nowt worth robbing unless you was strong enough to carry a tin bath on your shoulders.
LeedsChris:
Juddian:
If it happened at all it was rare.People are different now, little in the way of honour principles or values, they live by no code of behaviour, their word means nothing, they take what they want, its normal now…well everyone does it from the very top where greed and ambition and lack of honour is rife and revered…see MP’s for the best examples.
Lorry drivers are a cross section of people of their time and generation, and reflect the general descent into what we’ve seen this once fine country and people become over the last 4 or 5 decades.
Don’t fall into the old trap of looking through rose tinted glasses and believing old blighty was a more honest place in the old days.We have all heard of the old gangsters who controlled the cities, child abuse was rife but was swept under the carpet as it was a taboo subject, women were treated as second class citizens…i could go on abd on.
They say you could leave your door open in the old days and not worry about being robbed.Thats because there was nowt worth robbing unless you was strong enough to carry a tin bath on your shoulders.
tin bath ? luxury all we had were the kitchen sink !
Latique:
LeedsChris:
Juddian:
If it happened at all it was rare.People are different now, little in the way of honour principles or values, they live by no code of behaviour, their word means nothing, they take what they want, its normal now…well everyone does it from the very top where greed and ambition and lack of honour is rife and revered…see MP’s for the best examples.
Lorry drivers are a cross section of people of their time and generation, and reflect the general descent into what we’ve seen this once fine country and people become over the last 4 or 5 decades.
Don’t fall into the old trap of looking through rose tinted glasses and believing old blighty was a more honest place in the old days.We have all heard of the old gangsters who controlled the cities, child abuse was rife but was swept under the carpet as it was a taboo subject, women were treated as second class citizens…i could go on abd on.
They say you could leave your door open in the old days and not worry about being robbed.Thats because there was nowt worth robbing unless you was strong enough to carry a tin bath on your shoulders.
tin bath ? luxury all we had were the kitchen sink !
Posh up your end, we had the river irk
B1 GGK:
Latique:
LeedsChris:
Juddian:
If it happened at all it was rare.People are different now, little in the way of honour principles or values, they live by no code of behaviour, their word means nothing, they take what they want, its normal now…well everyone does it from the very top where greed and ambition and lack of honour is rife and revered…see MP’s for the best examples.
Lorry drivers are a cross section of people of their time and generation, and reflect the general descent into what we’ve seen this once fine country and people become over the last 4 or 5 decades.
Don’t fall into the old trap of looking through rose tinted glasses and believing old blighty was a more honest place in the old days.We have all heard of the old gangsters who controlled the cities, child abuse was rife but was swept under the carpet as it was a taboo subject, women were treated as second class citizens…i could go on abd on.
They say you could leave your door open in the old days and not worry about being robbed.Thats because there was nowt worth robbing unless you was strong enough to carry a tin bath on your shoulders.
tin bath ? luxury all we had were the kitchen sink !
Posh up your end, we had the river irk
Oooooh la-di-da you two, tin bath and rivers? bah! we had a puddle to sit in and a piece of coal to scrub us selves wi, kids today, you don;t know your born, I remember blah blah blah two n sixpence blah blah blah drippin butties …
Oi cloth caps and whippets, certainly a lot of thieving went on, always will, but when on international duty, and driving, parking in the eastern bloc, we certainly encountered more than our share, and as the gates to the uk have opened up, so to has the gateway for the thieves, and scams that could only have come from another country. We have always had the tinkers tales, those who say they have no money for fuel, or have run out of derv up the road, to way back when, where you would turn up for work, only to find that some scroat has nicked the sheets off of the back of your truck, and its you who has to go to the workshop, for a repaired pair, and have to refold them.
So thieving will always be with us, torn curtains or not, we had light lenses and bulbs, spot lights, indicators long vehicle signs all stolen while we waited to cross borders, so you certainly had to keep a watchful eye.
Always happened …park on your sheets etc, but i reconned the Irish boats ,stranraer& Cairnryan in the 80s took it to a different level…
Spotlight covers,taillights ,bulbs,and on one occasion the truck next to me lost both Mirrors.
jimmy.