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Friday, March 22, 2024

Cargo thefts spiked 68% in Q4

When trade operator Mary Sandoval recently sent a truck to pick up a load of avocados from a warehouse in Laredo, Texas, she was appalled when the load and tractor-trailer vanished without a trace almost immediately after leaving the facility.

“The truck showed up to the warehouse, gave the warehouse the load pick up number and then drove off and disappeared,” Sandoval said. “We never heard from them, and don’t know where the avocados went.”

Sandoval, whose name has been changed for this story, spoke to FreightWaves on condition of anonymity. It’s the second time Sandoval’s Texas-based logistics brokerage has been the target of strategic cargo thieves over the past year, leaving the company with over $200,000 in damages that they had to pay out of pocket.
-WiscoDave

7 comments:

  1. “We never heard from them, and don’t know where the avocados went.”

    ...Well... Wherever they went, they didn't guac...

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  2. Round about 2012 during the ammo scare, it came out that there is an app that allows one to read the bill of laden for a shipment. This can be done from the comfort of your living room. One need not even be at the trailer or warehouse.

    So, just heist the load you want. Shippers need to figure out how to rig dimmy bills of laden showing stuff no one wants. Then the crims catch on. Its a constant battle.

    Of course, my idea is to rig explosives in the load. Trailer is geo fenced to specific route. Outside that fence it goes boom.

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  3. Apple air tag on the truck for starters. We use them to keep track of a lot of equipment.

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  4. There are bloody thieving bastards everywhere

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  5. Justice Jackson. Diversity Hire...

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  6. This has gone on a while. I read of semi truck load of walnuts being heisted the same way. Truck driver signs for it and it is long gone.

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  7. Lot of places make a copy of the drivers DL, take a photo of the truck etc.

    it aint hard to document who drove off with the cargo.

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