A highly customised purple trailer and its load, collectively worth approximately $250,000, has been stolen at the Hume Highway at Somerton, Victoria, this week.
The trailer belongs to family owned and operated business Flowers Freightlines. Based in Tahmoor, NSW, it specialises in long distance open trailer work, travelling east to west, and across the east coast.
Company owner Doug Sproule told Big Rigs this trailer – a 41ft flat top produced by Moore Trailers – was purchased around two and a half years ago.
“That’s the first brand new trailer I even bought. Everything up until then was second hand,” said Doug, who operates a fleet of 8 prime movers, 7 rigids and 15 trailers.
The trailer was loaded up with a Toyota Hilux ute and steel, including round bar. It had come in from Perth and was on its way back to Sydney, via Melbourne.
“The driver dropped his B trailer so he could go and load his A trailer. When he came back, the B trailer was gone,” Doug explained.
“It happened at about 7.30am on Monday morning. I have all the camera footage from a business across the road. But it only shows a side view of the truck – you can’t see the rego. It was stolen by a plain white Scania.”
Camera footage obtained from a nearby business shows the trailer being stolen by a white Scania. Image: Flower FreightlinesDoug is hopeful that the trailer will be found. “I purpose built this trailer to be used with a bonneted truck as a B-double, so it would stand out if it drove past.
“Most of these types of trailers are 45ft, so this one is considered quite a short trailer but it works well with what we use it for.
“It’s a heavy duty outback series trailer with a BPW lift axle, belly tanks, has clearance lights every 2 feet down the sides. It’s a top of the range bit of gear so it does stand out.”
Doug is offering a cash reward for information that leads to the trailer’s recovery.
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