I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.
Whilst i am certain that their have been a few isolated cases over the years i believe most of the stories are complete b######s , usually made up by a driver who has done his money in a bar/bag house/fruit machine and has dreamed up some spurious story to cover his losses. In fact when i think about it the only people that have ever robbed me have been wearing a uniform .
So my question is this , am i just lucky or are there a lot of b##########g drivers out there making a lot of youngsters (and a few who should know better) very nervous of a world that simply doesn’t exist .
turnip:
So my question is this , am i just lucky or are there a lot of b##########g drivers out there making a lot of youngsters (and a few who should know better) very nervous of a world that simply doesn’t exist .
Have you read the gas thread, it is interesting but tapers off towards the end 
turnip:
I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.
that makes at least two of us then 
I had my cab broken into in Kiev, and among other things has my passport, carnet, permits etc stolen (although no money). I reported it to the Police and had to get a new passport issued by the British embassy.
Vascoingles:
turnip:
I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.that makes at least two of us then
Three. 
Harry Monk:
I had my cab broken into in Kiev, and among other things has my passport, carnet, permits etc stolen (although no money). I reported it to the Police and had to get a new passport issued by the British embassy.
Like i say harry i am certain there are cases that are completely true like yours .Just a guess but i reckon you weren’t in the cab at the time ? And weren’t beaten up/gassed/raped like some would have us believe, which was the point of my post.
Incidentally where were you in kiev ? went to borispol several times but never into the city itself
British International drivers would come crying in to the Porto office,and tell porkies of having their pockets cut open while asleep in the cabs.Strange how there were all those dancing clubs and prostitutes working across from Leca de Palmeria port and in Matosinhos.I got robbed near Burgos,releived of shoes,by a gang,never slept properly after that,slightest noise in the night would make me sit upright and look out of the curtains,it does affect you,interviewed by insurance company,but they made feel like it was my fault.
No, I wasn’t in the cab at the time, I was tipping in the street and I had to make a phone call from the office and it happened then, in the space of about a minute or two. I first went to Kiev in 1994 and this happened in August 1996. Another of our drivers was dragged from his cab and given a beating and then robbed in Belarus but I agree that such incidents are rare, and I would consider rough parts of the UK to be as bad as anywhere else.
I must rank as seriously unlucky then, I had one person break into my cab while I was asleep, luckily I woke up and he just left before he could take anything, this was on a motorway service area in Germany, then I had my cab broken into in Alicante, lost a laptop, the front to my car stereo and a bag of clothes with my passport in it.
Parked with another of our company trucks my truck was broken into again at Cabo Roig, they took my bag of dirty laundry that time, but they made so much noise the workmate in the truck next to mine woke up and gave chase, he was naked at the time and only stopped as there were a few people about and he got a bit embarrassed.
In Fuengirola I had to leave my trailer outside Dunns, someone tried to force the back doors open, but got chased off by some security guards for the shopping complex, I came back and had to open the back, where they had bent the hasp for my very secure padlock I couldn’t replace it so put an ordinary padlock on, when I came back the second time they had broken in again, steeling my bike and tool box. The load of customers stuff was untouched, this time the security people had called the police, I described the bike to them and also gave them the key to the padlock on the frame, they caught the bloke and I got my bike back, but I never got any tools back.
Generally I think the problem is we tend to park in towns and away from secure parking a lot of the time due to the job (removals)
We now have extra dead locks fitted to all our cabs,
In 30 years of driving all over the place, the 3 times i’ve been broken into have all been in the UK.
gb1:
In 30 years of driving all over the place, the 3 times i’ve been broken into have all been in the UK.
I was just thinking the same except in my case its 13 years driving and every break in in the UK.
Harry Monk:
I had my cab broken into in Kiev, and among other things has my passport, carnet, permits etc stolen (although no money). I reported it to the Police and had to get a new passport issued by the British embassy.
Slightly off topic but something I have always wondered…
When you have to have a passport re-issued by an embassy as above case do you have to pay again and does it start from that date or original date■■?
Ben9:
Slightly off topic but something I have always wondered…When you have to have a passport re-issued by an embassy as above case do you have to pay again and does it start from that date or original date■■?
The passport I have to this day was issued on the 21st August 2006 and expires on the 21st August 2016, to celebrate 21st August 1996, the day the British Embassy in Kiev issued me a passport after my last one was stolen…
I had to pay the full amount and then some… after one Ukrainian gets in on the act, they all pile in…
Coffeeholic:
Vascoingles:
turnip:
I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.that makes at least two of us then
Three.
Four
In over thirty years I only had the cab broken into twice, once in Birmingham in the seventies when there were no locks on the cab doors and once on The National in Belgrade in the eighties but each time I wasn’t actually in the cab.
TheBear:
Coffeeholic:
Vascoingles:
turnip:
I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.that makes at least two of us then
Three.
Four
Five, although I’m a long way short of 22 years on European.
i had someone trying to turn the door lock a few weeks ago in castellon other week however i was awake and couldnt work out what the noise was when the door opened the light came on in the cab and they must have heard me get up and left
apart from that the only other thing ive had happen is when i got my padlock and TIR cord cut in milan
ohh and once in belgium someone stole my washer bottle cap
I used to park up behind the very big ceramic company callled Porcelana Venis,24 hour patrol behind the factory,loads of room,no problems.Security have guns.(Licensed).
Simon:
TheBear:
Coffeeholic:
Vascoingles:
turnip:
I was just looking at the monthly question and it struck me how many people feel insecure in their cabs at night . Personally in 22 yrs travelling around europe including various outlandish places i have never had a break in to the cab and have never felt seriously threatened.that makes at least two of us then
Three.
Four
Five, although I’m a long way short of 22 years on European.
six, 18 yrs doing euro land , mostly spain and yes the only people i knew who claimed robbery were baghouse regulars .
Baghouse boys would spend the bosses running money.