Well after a nice 13 hours off I awoke this morning to find a 4 inch square gash in my fuel tank, first thoughts where a fuel theft attempt but after more in depth investigation the most logical explanation is a cocked up reverse into the bay next to me.
As I check my motor in the evening and im 90% sure it wasnt there when parked up I can only conclude a fellow sister of the road has touched me in the evening (chance would be a fine thing). Now being one of the worlds deepest sleepers there is no way it would wake me up and the dent was not deep enough to rupture the tank so all is fine for cracking on.
Anyway I have to fill out the usual accident forms and there will come a point I will get the blame, no matter as its irrelevant in the scheme of things.
So has anyone else woke up to find weird damage to their vehicle…
Not accidental damage but woke up one Monday morning in Verne truckstop to find the drivers side skirt under the trailer and the two mounting brackets gone, don’t know why they didn’t take the skirt as well brackets cost 300 euro skirt costs approx 2000 euro
I woke up one morning a couple weeks back and a brand new BMW on the back of my transporter had its tail light and bumper smashed and the car above it was hit too.
Had my back door burst open (Oi! Shurrup at the back) in Dundee. Parked in ASDA and stuck my padlock on since I couldn’t back up to a wall.
It was a hellish night, the rain woke me up several times it was battering down that hard. Gets up in the morning, quick check round and find the back door open-ish, padlock gone and sadly, none of that days drops half-inched. I guess humphing 90kg of mattress down the street in a force 8 isn’t anyone elses idea of fun either . 
The Scumdonian bar stewards had somehow managed to knock the upright pole thing down a few inches so it wouldn’t locate into its hidey-hole at the bottom or its latch at the top. Several kickings with a steel toe and some attitude plus a helpful tap from some workies and their BFO hammer and it was back in place.
Also had my AdBlue cap and wheel nut markers stolen when parked in Aberdeen once. That was odd.
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Adonis.:
Also had my AdBlue cap and wheel nut markers stolen when parked in Aberdeen once. That was odd.
I had fuel cap stolen couple of weeks ago while taking a leak at a service station. I’d just fuelled up and must have forgotten to lock it. No fuel gone, just the cap. Also had a windscreen wiper arm (complete) pinched once at Charnock Richards. It was raining too…!
Seems nothing is safe these days.
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Adonis.:
Also had my AdBlue cap and wheel nut markers stolen when parked in Aberdeen once. That was odd.
I had fuel cap stolen couple of weeks ago while taking a leak at a service station. I’d just fuelled up and must have forgotten to lock it. No fuel gone, just the cap. Also had a windscreen wiper arm (complete) pinched once at Charnock Richards. It was raining too…!
Seems nothing is safe these days.
Fuel cap was the locking type, AdBlue wasn’t. It was a ‘stuff’ and wasn’t nailed down, is the only reason I can think of for stealing it.
Stealing a wiper arm is impressive. I spent 4 hours and learnt 6 new swear words getting them off my motor last year.
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Had a rear light cluster lense stolen off of a tipper one night when parked up in Exeter a few years back.
Nighted out in toddington north once when doing checks in morning noticed my dogclip and chain had been stolen 
think my fridge trailer may have drove someone insane .STILL nice 2 hr wait for new one to be fitted
topmixer11:
Nighted out in toddington north once when doing checks in morning noticed my dogclip and chain had been stolen think my fridge trailer may have drove someone insane .STILL nice 2 hr wait for new one to be fitted
You should’ve nipped into the shop, bought a padlock and put it through, kept the receipt and claimed it back. The Co would’ve been impressed with your can do attitude and maybe promoted you! 
the maoster:
topmixer11:
Nighted out in toddington north once when doing checks in morning noticed my dogclip and chain had been stolen think my fridge trailer may have drove someone insane .STILL nice 2 hr wait for new one to be fitted
You should’ve nipped into the shop, bought a padlock and put it through, kept the receipt and claimed it back. The Co would’ve been impressed with your can do attitude and maybe promoted you!
I think you are expecting too much 
It’s easier to nick stuff in the rain because
(1) The sounds of the rain hitting all over the truck cover any tinkering noises being made
(2) If the truck wobbles a bit, you’re not going to be sitting bolt upright, and looking down the side in your mirror to check for intrduders as much… IF you can even see down the side what with rain drops all over the mirror, and possibly a steamed-up inside of the cab glass as well.
(3) Who expects anyone to nick stuff when you can’t be arsed to even sit up on the bunk? - Prime time for nicking therefore I’m thinking.
As for myself, I’ve had fuel caps nicked twice, but no ad blue caps, as it was over a decade ago, before adblue was generally used on all motors like it is now.
I’m often surprised though why more of those trailers don’t get nicked - the ones left causing an obstruction in laybys, that (from a distance at least) don’t seem to have anything like a suzie lock on them…
tail lights ,bulbs the lot were usual on the irish crossing from Cairnryan at one time… strange one was hella front spotlight covers replaced with halford ones . wagon next to me at larne car park had all its mirrors nicked arms as well,was an English company and the motor I was on was the same make ,but belonged to a “good old boy”. My mate Andy had a trailer wheel knicked one night down in the west country ,he was having a beer and went straight intae bed ,noticed in the morning supersingle gone and all his dunnage under the axle…he told me THAT was a phonecall from hell to the boss. 
Dipper_Dave:
I awoke this morning to find a 4 inch square gash…
I like some gash every morning, preferably, small & tight though…