Quote: Originally posted by pattinson family on 01/9/2009
Farmers livestock trailers are very popular with thieving scumbags. I used to work at an agricultural engineers workshop where we were regularly asked to get the farm postcode on the roof of the trailers we sold as well as the farmers name and address on the front panel.
I agree they are regularly taken & need to have some identity on them. A friend of mine uses the front Back & sides of his livestock trailer to advertise his herd of cattle & tell readers he often has stock for sale & Bulls for hire. He puts his farm name & phone number on there too. The sign writing on it must have ost a lot of money. but having your identity on a working trailer is very different from advertising your address on a leisure unit such as a caravan.
Thinking about it, I'd leave someone elses postcode there or perhaps adopt some other marking or even put a false code up there, but never my own. I either of my older kids decided to remain home while we were away I couldn't rest if I thought I'd advertised the fact I wasn't home & they got a visit.
When we got the new car we asked for a rear number plate for the caravan and received a spare front one as well. This is attached to the roof with double sided tape (been there 30 months). It will be easy to remove when we change the car.
If a Traffic Police Officer is having his cup of tea whilst sat on a bridge and notices a mismatch on registration plates, he may decide it's worth a pull. Every little helps!
The point of any kind of identification numbers on the roof is that a thief is unlikely to know they are there, or to have time to remove them even if they do notice, and they create a distinguishing mark for police to look out for. And remember, the motorway network is not only monitored by bobbies on bridges, but also by hundreds of high-mounted cameras.
One caravan looks much like another, but a report of a stolen caravan would be much easier to trace if it was accompanied by such an obvious distinguishing mark.
That being said, I'd go for part of the CRiS number, or something else unique to the van, rather than for a postcode or car reg, either of which would need changing after a future sale, as the OP has discovered.
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It really wouldn't be hard for Robin Gytt to work out which house was yours from the post code, when they have the street they just look for the house with an empty caravan sized drive, hey presto!, Hmmm here's a thought use the post code for the local nick!
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Topic: Security, Postcode on roof ?
