Stealing Cargo?

Fact is, people steal stupid stuff all the stupid time. High value loads are almost always sealed. And if you have a high value load and it isn't sealed or locked, lock it up. Back to stupid... The company I used to work for had a contract with a bakery in the Los Angeles area. Mostly regional branded burger, hot dog, hogie buns. But they also had an "Artisan" bread division. This went to the "fla-de-da" types of shops. I'm taking real sourdough, and a 22 inch baguette that while crunchy on the crust is light an airy on the inside. Turns out, over a year, the driver was taking a bag of burger buns for every 3 deliveries. Doesn't sound like much, but it equaled 8 burger buns each day (though not every day) for a month. What ended up being exposed was that the drivers brother and sister-in law had a food truck. And were serving burgers on free buns. Where they got caught was the returns.. Purveyors will receive/issue credit for returns, because they turn the old stale bread into bread crumbs. And when the store says 20% didn't sell and you only have 5% of your products returned... Time to investigate..

 

That was discussed a little bit in a psych class I took in school years ago. The answer is of course yes, a lot of them will because they do not have any self-control.

Prison inmates with only a week left on their sentence will see what they think is an opportunity to escape and they'll take it and try to break out... getting caught and adding years on to their sentence.

All they had to do was wait one more week, but they wouldn't do it. They don't have the self-control and putting things into perspective even when it's in their own best interest in getting what they ultimately want.

 

Stupid people don’t realize they’re stupid and do stupid stuff all the time.
I just read a great story about it.

 

actually most of the inmates that do that stuff. do it because they dont have family or a place to go. its better then living on the streets

 

most of the bread returns around my house, get sent to the prison. thats why the inmates get 1 white and 1 wheat on there trays

 

What defines high dollar is what price the load can be fenced at.

Scrap copper valued at $100,000 can be fenced at 70% retail- minimum, with a quick and relatively easy pay day.

A truckload of electronics valued at $750,000 - 40%-60%.

A $1.5 million dollar cheese slicer? 0%

$100 million jet engine? Nice payday, but 0% chance of getting away with it.

Some punk isn't going to know how to fenced a 4 million dollar pharmaceutical load, but faced with a load of tv's he might let a couple "fall off the truck". People do dumb stuff. RR Donnelly had a plant manager, who was caught selling some of the scrap ,metal. Dude was making $200,00 a year and risked it for $25,000. If tggey think they can get away with it, they will.

 

Well if I had no family or no place to do, I'd make a place. And it wouldn't be a jail cell.

I think my original point was missed. We call them idiots, but there have been studies about people that are repeat offenders, thieves, murders, etc... people with anti-social behaviors. Their brains are just wired differently. There are parts of their brain that don't get the same amount of blood flow as a healthy brain from a person that functions well in society like you and I. The parts of the brain near the front (if I remember right) in charge of rational thinking don't get enough blood for reasons I can't say because I'm not a science-tician. But they taught me that and I thought it was interesting.

 

A couple years ago I hauled one pallet with 3 cases of wine and nothing else on the trailer. The value which was on an inventory sheet attached to the BOL was $250,000 and had to be maintained at 55 degrees.

 

I'll share a tidbit. It's no state secret because the pros that matter do know about it.

Some bundles on pallets of narcotics etc have trackers inside of them You would not know the difference without the right electronic sniffer.

The truck and trailer we hauled them in is absolute minimum marking, hardly any chrome and just plain jane. You seen a million like ours. Big deal.

It is a big deal. I talk about this so much because it's really fulfilling also you have to be prey and get away clean out of a place like memphis.

 

It was speculated the drivers were involved but it turns out they weren’t....
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