Police discover four tonnes of diesel on lorry

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Police discover four tonnes of diesel on lorry after garage theft
FOUR tonnes of diesel was found in containers in the back of a lorry by officers investigating a theft from a garage forecourt.

A 46-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of theft after a police patrol spotted him acting suspiciously at the Y Pas garage, on the A38, at Eggington on Saturday night.

Full story tomorrow.

thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Polic … story.html

How many litres are there in four tonnes? surely it makes more sense to quote litres than tonnes.

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shortfatbaldbloke:
How many litres are there in four tonnes? surely it makes more sense to quote litres than tonnes.

A bit over 4000 litres.

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So how much is he charging? :grimacing:

Tiger.

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Fastrantiger:
So how much is he charging? :grimacing:

Tiger.

seems he wont be doing the charging :laughing:

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This is getting common, cutting the covers off the tank vent pipes, shoving a pipe down straight ionto the tank and using a hi flo marine pump to sup the diesel out. I’m guessing this is a 7.5 tonner with 4 IBC’s in it.

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:open_mouth:

cieranc:
I’m guessing this is a 7.5 tonner with 4 IBC’s in it.

:open_mouth:

he will be getting done for overloading aswel then :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

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Bet a tenner and oil rag wipe down he had an irish accent!

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I work for Hanson out of Whittlesey and we had all 30 of our Trucks hit over the weekend, they got about £8000 worth of fuel!!! The good thing is , is that they caught them 'Red handed '… They were charged today but released on bail !!!
Oh and they were Latvian…NOT IRISH!!!

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Deepinvet:
I work for Hanson out of Whittlesey and we had all 30 of our Trucks hit over the weekend, they got about £8000 worth of fuel!!! The good thing is , is that they caught them 'Red handed '… They were charged today but released on bail !!!Oh and they were Latvian…NOT IRISH!!!

I hope that was only after they were released from Hospital !!!

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Hope they had the orange plates front and rear and enough fire extinguishers

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Deepinvet:
I work for Hanson out of Whittlesey and we had all 30 of our Trucks hit over the weekend, they got about £8000 worth of fuel!!! The good thing is , is that they caught them 'Red handed '… They were charged today but released on bail !!!
Oh and they were Latvian…NOT IRISH!!!

I have said in the past it is not just the travelers now days.

I know what your opinions are on the police, but isn’t your company doing anything to prevent this from happening?. Tell your boos to ring Jenson Security. They provide alarms that go straight to your boss’s mobile phone which will let him know if some body is on there land.

HTH :slight_smile:

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Deepinvet:
I work for Hanson out of Whittlesey and we had all 30 of our Trucks hit over the weekend, they got about £8000 worth of fuel!!! The good thing is , is that they caught them 'Red handed '… They were charged today but released on bail !!!
Oh and they were Latvian…NOT IRISH!!!

Where was that then in the brickworks?

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Updated newspaper story.

thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Man-a … story.html

Man arrested after police spot thief siphoning fuel at garage

FOUR tonnes of diesel was found in the back of a lorry by police investigating a theft from a garage forecourt.

A 46-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of theft after a police patrol spotted someone acting suspiciously at the Y Pas garage, on the A38 at Egginton, on Saturday night.

As the police car pulled up, they spotted a man siphoning fuel into large containers.

He spotted the patrol and started to run away. A man was later arrested.

Police found the stolen diesel in the back of a lorry and fuel had also spilled on to the carriageway, forcing the closure of the road while it was cleared up.

The incident happened at 9.15pm.

The arrested man, from St Helen’s in Merseyside, is still in police custody.

A force spokesman said: “The accused man has been arrested on suspicion of theft and we are also investigating whether the van is also stolen. The road was closed until 11.45pm while the fuel spill was cleared up.”