Transporter of fuel
Published: November 19, 2008
Client
Transporter of fuel
Date
January 2006
Background
The client was transporting fuel with a rigid and drawbar trailer combination.
Event
The driver was of the rig was hijacked outside Koster and shot dead. Because the company received no notification of the hijacking and were therefore only able to notify ETS of a problem some time later, the hijackers were able to drive the rig to Brits where they successfully dumped the fuel before the recovery
team could apprehend them.
Together with information gained from previous incidents, subsequent investigations lead police to the receiver of the stolen fuel who was arrested, charged and has been released on R10,000 bail.
Value
The Truck and trailers recovered were worth R600,000