Fork lift truck batteries worth many thousands of pounds are being brazenly stolen right under companies' noses, often in broad daylight, the UK industry body has warned. The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) sounded the urgent alert to all users of electric-powered fork lifts, after suddenly receiving a spate of confirmed reports about companies being tricked into parting with the highly valuable lead-acid batteries, by criminals posing as engineers. In one case, in the North of England, thieves even convinced a company to use its own fork lift truck to help load the batteries into their van, before driving away, never to be seen again. Similar incidents are being reported across the UK, as the scrap value of the heavy traction batteries - weighing anything up to 2,500kg eachapproaches £500 per tonne.
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