One unfortunate company has just had over $111,000 worth of beef stolen by a trucker who wasn’t who he claimed to be. This marks the second time in less than a year that the company saw a massive amount of meat roll away in the wrong truck.
Lakeside Refrigerated Services in New Jersey claims to have stepped up its security protocols after more than $100,000 worth of lamb and beef was stolen from its facility in February, but that didn’t stop a phony trucker from doing almost exactly the same thing again in August.
An unidentified trucker walked in to Lakeside and claimed he was there to pick up the load and bring it to a facility in Maryland. Without even having his ID checked, the driver was loaded up and sent on his way. When it never arrived at its destination, the company called the authorities and reported the cargo stolen.
According to Lt. Joseph Flatley of the Logan Township Police, this type of cargo theft is nothing new. As he explained to NJ.com, cargo thieves will often use the names of real companies in order to book shipments through freight brokers, then just drive off with the freight.
Often, drivers will use fake IDs and phony license plates so that when investigators go to find them or their trucks, they’re nowhere to be found. After picking up the goods, they just remove their phony plates and stop using the fake license.
Source: nj
Probably ends up in those little trucks and vans selling steaks door to door all over the place.
Ha ha. Yeah your probably right!
Where’s the Beef?
I have had to have specific numbers for load verifications, load numbers, pick up numbers, purchase order numbers, etc. Those can’t be faked, a driver has them or not. We are talking about a firm in New Jersey, what more could be said about alleged cargo thefts?
Inside mafia???
Anyone that wants to steal a load without #’sis asking for trouble but If you want to steal a load its not to difficult . The other driver that was supposed to p/u the load couldn’t be there on time so I got the load .Here are my #’s. they load the truck and you’re gone. What they have to do is find the broker that brokered the load but even he will never be found .
New Jersey I mean come on really this sound really corrupt
inside job? insurance fraud? drug dealers now selling steaks on the corner?
Semi truck loads of Fresh Meats are stolen near every day, and taken to the BIG CITY in SW Fla! (Google: Stolen Semi Trucks in Fla). It’s a link in the chain of ‘economics’ in USA daily. The last Co I drove for lost 7 loads in abt 18 months. Each load was about $200,000- $1 million retail. Great Ins Claims. BAD PEOPLE (THIEVES) sit at truckstops in S. Georgia, and ALL over Fla patiently waiting…..and watching…for Drivers to go in to eat/shower. When they come out…whole truck is G O N E. Happens ALL the time. When I had a,load of meat, I never left my truck, except to quickly fuel, at the pump by the door. Bathed and cooked, IN MY TRUCK.
Correction…..Big City…SE FLA, not SW.
Once? Sure
Twice? Maybe?
If this happens again, I’m going to suspect that maybe somebody check this company’s financials.