Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Theft a problem for used earthmoving equipment industry

BAB A8 near Leipheim: With stolen trailer Construction of highway construction site - Police asked for help
A stolen road roller particularly brazen thieves have struck in recent days, the highway construction site near Leipheim. In two cases, self-propelled earthmoving equipment worth a total of approximately 150,000 euros were stolen.
In the first case, a Takeuchi excavator manufacturer, worth € 40,000 was stolen from the site. The excavator was locked in a Behelfszufahrt the motorway A 8 was parked between the junction and the junction Leipheim Elchingen, in the local construction sites. On the night of 20 21:11:08 on the equipment was apparently short-circuited with a low loader and taken away.
The same procedure probably put the same perpetrators of a theft in the period from 11/21/2008 to 11/24/2008 in the day. Within this time a serious, self-propelled road roller was stolen. The equipment was about 1 km on dirt roads to more than one occasion, by the Road Riedheim White Ingen site of another company. There it was in accordance with previous findings on a makeshift ramp spent on a low loader and taken away in unknown direction. The road roller Bomag type BW 213 DH-4 has a value of 100,000 €.
Obviously, the perpetrators would have been even steal another vehicle, as another roll started using violence and provided for the removal was. Why this car was not stolen is also unclear how far the identity of the perpetrators.
Notes on the perpetrators or perpetrators of the vehicles - it has acted, inter alia, have a low loader - are invited by the highway patrol in Günzburg.
The people of Leipheim and Riedheim and passing motorists are requested to perceptions suspect in the entire construction site of the motorway A 8 to inform the police immediately.