What is it with parking in Holland,last night i had my curtain slashed 6 times at Venlo truckstop (trailer was one day old!)someone tried to break into my cab at Meer a few months ago and i’ve had curtain slashed at the shell garage at the Aachen border all this year,dont get it as the dutch are such nice people!
mb14:
What is it with parking in Holland,last night i had my curtain slashed 6 times at Venlo truckstop (trailer was one day old!)someone tried to break into my cab at Meer a few months ago and i’ve had curtain slashed at the shell garage at the Aachen border all this year,dont get it as the dutch are such nice people!
They are, it isn’t Dutch people or even Belgians doing it
more like someone from a little further east
dont worry they just missed the eurolines bus, it wont happen again 
On the stretch between Eindhoven and the border at Venlo this isn’t a new thing, They have been giving out warnings of gangs targeting trucks along there for at least 10 years. I lost the battery box cover off a Volvo years ago in Asten truckstop. went for a shower and when I came back the cover was gone, as was the English driver who had been parked next to me in his Volvo for most of the day and who did not have a battery box cover. 
Coffeeholic:
On the stretch between Eindhoven and the border at Venlo this isn’t a new thing, They have been giving out warnings of gangs targeting trucks along there for at least 10 years. I lost the battery box cover off a Volvo years ago in Asten truckstop. went for a shower and when I came back the cover was gone, as was the English driver who had been parked next to me in his Volvo for most of the day and who did not have a battery box cover.
Hope it was East Kilbride rather than East Yorkshire 
Wheel Nut:
Coffeeholic:
On the stretch between Eindhoven and the border at Venlo this isn’t a new thing, They have been giving out warnings of gangs targeting trucks along there for at least 10 years. I lost the battery box cover off a Volvo years ago in Asten truckstop. went for a shower and when I came back the cover was gone, as was the English driver who had been parked next to me in his Volvo for most of the day and who did not have a battery box cover.Hope it was East Kilbride rather than East Yorkshire
Not east but west. Vehicle wasn’t sign written but drivers accent was West Midlands.
Coffeeholic:
Wheel Nut:
Coffeeholic:
On the stretch between Eindhoven and the border at Venlo this isn’t a new thing, They have been giving out warnings of gangs targeting trucks along there for at least 10 years. I lost the battery box cover off a Volvo years ago in Asten truckstop. went for a shower and when I came back the cover was gone, as was the English driver who had been parked next to me in his Volvo for most of the day and who did not have a battery box cover.Hope it was East Kilbride rather than East Yorkshire
Not east but west. Vehicle wasn’t sign written but drivers accent was West Midlands.
“Nice kipper tie” ? . . one sugar please !!
Probably Black country but they all sound the same . . dont they 
I always thought Venlo and that area was a bit rough and that was before all the communists showed up.
What can you do?
Al
and i’m going that way monday again…thing is once you you get to Germany and the gestapo are in charge you are safer…lol
According to Transport Online .nl,south east Holland is a hot spot for curtain slashers,particularly around Venlo,Eindhoven and Heerlen.
The worst places for vehicle theft,with or without a load,is Rotterdam,Amsterdam and Eindhoven.
Some years ago I used to stop for a 45 at the De Lutte border (Oldenzaal) on a regular run down from Sweden,it was just 4,5hrs to there from Travemunde,and,at the time, there was a spate of spare wheels going missing from trailers.
One night I arrived there to find the German and Dutch police having a field day.They’d caught four Poles with two old vans loaded with spare wheels which they couldn’t account for.