harry:
where’s the fun in buying stuff
I remember being parked at the cabin at w thurrock many yrs ago on the fri night after previously loading off drapers tpt just down the road.When i woke up at 4.30am to go home to bolton some theiving toe rag had pinched every bulb and lens off the trl.I went back to drapers who supplied me with a full set to get me home.I took a new set off my gaffer back to them with his thanks the following week.A really good firm to deal with were drapers.Doubtless many of you stuck in a similar position have not been so lucky.
regards dave.
There used to be a ■■■■■ camp on the A346 Marlborough road just over the M4. Had shower blocks, utility rooms, street lighting etc (the usual stuff the Tacky Tarmac Roadstone gang want us to pay for) and instead of looking after it, they stripped the showers for the copper pipes (same with the electrics) took roof tiles off and probably used them to rip off an oap, and generally used the site for dumping leylandii cuttings, old cars, dead whippets and human turds etc. Site’s now abandoned. Some drivers in M4o Wheatley services appear to be related to these dids, as they seem to think it’s ok to pee beside someone elses truck just yards from the public toilets. 
Had my screen wash bottle knicked of my Scania a couple of weeks ago at Carnforth, the week before I had 3 side marker light lenses knicked of my trailer when at Tebay.
Just nice to know that all drivers stick together isn`t it!
dowahdiddyman:
Had my screen wash bottle knicked of my Scania a couple of weeks ago at Carnforth, the week before I had 3 side marker light lenses knicked of my trailer when at Tebay.
Just nice to know that all drivers stick together isn`t it!
they must have been bloody good to knick the screen wash bottle? so they took the step and step frame of the nearside?? do you mean the screen washer cap. as if they took the bottle you must be a big heavy sleeper 
yeah,sorry I meant the cap. Thieving scum.Teach me to check over my posts before hand. 
Some people must be really terriffied of there gaffers if they will pinch such trivial things.
if it aint tied down take it, take iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit !!! and [zb] it
globby 480:
:mrgreen:
Mature…
Cavewoods still take the bulbs and lenses out so most their trailers unless they have screw on lenses
When we used to take roadferry trailers to cairnryan we carried lenses and bulbs , trailers would regularly be without lights and also leg winding handles , was’nt much fun winding legs up with a screw driver , in the last week alone we had 300 litres of fuel nicked whilst vehicle parked overnight in skelmersdale , and had 2 batteries nicked of motor from our yard , probably not other drivers though 
Only this week, I was at a food factory in London and spotted one of their own drivers with a brand new ratchet strap, clearly marked with the name of the company I’m working for. The only way he could have got it was to thieve it out of the back of a trailer whilst the driver was on a door being loaded. The sad thing was that he thought it was OK, and he was ever so peeved when I took it off him!
on a lighter note, most companies would never allow drivers to put bulbs in or remove Rubbolite lenses as they have not been trained to change them.
20 years ago every driver had a full set of single and double contact bulbs and at least 3 types of lenses or a light board
just last night i was parked up just outside leominster in a hiab wagon which our place has on hire, when i got up at 3am this morning, and doing my walkround i noticed, some theiving git had had the wieght warning light and the jack pads away
so our gaffer wasnt too chuffed when i rang him at 3.15 am to tell him
Aye its a sad sign of the times.40 odd yrs ago when i started on the road some drivers considered it ok to pinch off their load but never pinched off fellow drivers.But there you go in those days you never changed a wheel on your own and always got a lift to fold your sheets.Today nobody has any time.
regards dave.
not a truck but car… my mate had an old audi, similar to the quattro thing, woke up one morning got in his car to drive to work, someone had nicked his windscreen!!
I was in Schipol services last week and some thieving git nicked 2 marker lights and the entire front offside indicator off my FH12 not just the lens the whole thing including all 3 screws then cut the wire so they even had the connector, i was only away for half an hour or so
Wheel Nut:
Battery box covers do have a habit of flying off on the motorway, are you sure it was there when you parked up? Trevor is normally on the prowl during the night looking for beer moneyNot sure about the cameras except around his house and plant.
My sentiments, in fact I was going to post a thread about what the most commonly seen truck detritus on the roadsides, and was going to nominate batterybox covers as number one. That said, you won’t have to go terribly far before you find a new one 
My mate and I use to drive identical Foden S80’s and one night we both parked on the bit of rough ground on Bethnal Green Rd; that was used as an unofficial lorry park instead of going on ‘The Ramp’. Sometimes you had to pay a fee to this old bruiser who seemed to turn up out of nowhere 
Anyway as we parked up another S80 pulled alongside and we all went into Gina’s cafe for tea and then went for a few pints in the usual haunts. Me and my mate were using the digs at Gina’s and our new friend was cabbing it, so next morning after a bit of brekkie we walked across to the trucks and our new friend from the previous evening had already gone and when my mate got in his truck so had his radio, his box of provisions, all his cooking and sleeping kit and to topitall the whole nearside of the dashboard had disappeared as well WTF
This was back in 76 and our now ex friend was driving a blue & yellow 8 wheeler tipper for Kenneth Wilsons, think they from the Linc’s; area and seemed to run a massive fleet of bulker’s at the time. Went up to the local plod shop to report it and as far as I’m aware the case is still open and being investigated
Any new info can be forwarded to the ‘Cold Case Unit’ at The Met Police, New Scotland Yard
regards
Dave Penn;
My dad used to have his sheets nicked during the early 70’s.
I used to go in ginas regular, she had the dirtiest finger nails ever!! but the grub was great.
Not quite the same but i got called out to the local school for loss of drive on their Transit mini-bus and someone had nicked the propshaft
Steve