Stolen 5th wheeler (1 Viewer)

Bluemooner

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Not often you hear a Fifth wheel stolen glad i have locks and tracker on mine but 50k not insured i wonder why

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Snowbird

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Just maybe not insured because it was left unattended in a lay bye with no hitch lock.
 
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If the owner is in Aus he might have had trouble getting insurance, I was talking to a Kiwi Couple recently at Brierfields they pop over every year to see the Grandkids.
They could not get insurance for their van, while they weren't in the country, and their van was in storage

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Motorhome dealer here who had one on sale had a 5 tonne concrete block plonked right in front so not possible to get to hitch & also stopped any car owners reversing in to it. :D
I asked about it some months later when it had gone & they said the only people that buy them here are the fairground workers.

Always amazes me some of the things that are parked up & disappear overnight ?
 
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I don't understand why they left it there. If they were worried about it getting tipped over in high winds while they were with it, why would they leave it unhitched ( and surly more prone to being blown over because it's not attached to anything) and drive away

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IF, (as they say) it was NOT insured. what would be the point of a scam?.

MOST (not all) Of the bigger 5er`s in the UK are owned by fairground workers, OR the odd HGV "Owner/Driver" who contracts, and has the family local to the latest base. We stayed on a site in Somerset in the 90`s next pitch to a young driver, who did just that his kiddie was in the local primary, and his wife worked for the site owners in the office.

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The only scam part I could think of is ,that the "relative" took a nice big back hander to leave it insecure in a layby . But of course purely conjecture on my part.
 

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Surely the vehicle that took it must be set up to connect to one of those for the coupling and the brakes. There can't be too many around that can do it unless it was the Itinerants who already have one and are equipped to steal another. Look around the local sites they are a lot rare than ordinary caravans.
 
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so you left a un-insured £50000 trailer in a layby overnight, [and your'e surprised its not there this morning?]
mmmmmmmm.

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Reminds me of many years ago of a 50 tonne weighbridge being moved on low-loader on special transport licence only overnight travel & escorted. Left it in layby in the morning & on return at night nothing there . Never heard whether they found it.
 
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Surely the vehicle that took it must be set up to connect to one of those for the coupling and the brakes. There can't be too many around that can do it unless it was the Itinerants who already have one and are equipped to steal another. Look around the local sites they are a lot rare than ordinary caravans.

Any tractor unit could hitch up, easier with a low ride one, don't think they would worry too much about the lack of trailer brakes.

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Any tractor unit could hitch up, easier with a low ride one, don't think they would worry too much about the lack of trailer brakes.
They have a ball type hitch I though a damn sight different to the 5th wheel of Artics, so unless it was a caravan type hitch then no way could the casual person take one without the adapted vehicle which tend to be rarer than rocking horse poo. It would be a opportunity theft with an person equipped to pull one.????
 
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They have a ball type hitch I though a damn sight different to the 5th wheel of Artics, so unless it was a caravan type hitch then no way could the casual person take one without the adapted vehicle which tend to be rarer than rocking horse poo. It would be a opportunity theft with an person equipped to pull one.????

Well my 5'er has a standard pin that fits into a standard fifth wheel hitch, that's why they are called fifth wheelers.

The hitch in the back of my pickup has a smaller turntable than a trucks and is not capable of carrying the same weight but the jaws are exactly the same size as atrucks.

The only limitation as to compatibility is the clearance behind the pin on the trailer and the rear end of the tractor unit and possibly height issues.

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A guy pulled in to Regal Upholstery today with a whopping Hobby Caravan. He has a garage business in Rochdale and his Hobby Caravan was in the yard when somme diddicoys came in on the pretext of having their pickup repaired. He told them the engine was probably shot due to some stuff which they put in their tanks, and politely told them he didn't want the work.

A couple of days later his gleaming caravan had gone. He contacted the tracker company and they gave him a location in Castleford, West Yorkshire. He assembled 10 of his mates and went to the location which turned out to be a gypsy site.

He'd already summoned Police and pointed out the pickup which had been in his yard a day or two before. The police said he had no proof, and they were powerless to act despite the guys protestations. Twenty more police and a Meat Wagon turned up but the Rochdale lads went in and got the Hobby out.

The gypos had damaged the tow point and a lot of the inside trying to find the tracker which they were unable to locate, hence his visit to Regal to get the upholstery re-done.

The guy was adamant the incident wasn't over and he was hell bent on getting his revenge on the individual he'd spoken to re the pickup repair.

So the missing fifth wheel could well be t'other side o Pennines, nicked by thieving Itinerant bastards.
 
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No it couldnt.
A 5th wheeler has a considerably smaller hitch pin than an artic.

There are two sizes of hitch, 2 ins and 3 & half ins diameter, I am almost certain that the 2 ins is standard and the 3 & half ins is used for heavy haulage applications but I will bow to your greater knowledge if you know better,

I hope I am right because I am shortly to sell my pickup and if I ever need to move the 5'er again I had planned on using a truck.

I have pin lock that looks exactly the same size as the ones that I have used on trucks.

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