Stealing Cargo?

The brazenness of freight robbery is what always baffled me. When I was with a major LTL outfit and the terminal was downtown, at LEAST once a week in the morning, there’d be carpet over the barb wire and trailer door seals popped and doors ajar. They’d just pop doors see what was in the back, and if it was worth/able to be thrown over the fence.

At the same outfit we also serviced a gas station retail supply warehouse in western Illinois. Someone drilled a hole thru the roof, found the keys to the trucks, hooked a full pup trailer of cigarettes and drove thru the gate. They later found the trailer empty on an eastern seaboard state. Rumors speculate that was an inside job.

Both techniques vastly different in execution, yet both ballsy and apparently, effective.

 

I was going to add that. 44k of copper rods. Six reels. Good luck moving it.

And copper at $2.70/lb.

$100-$150k. And a helluva forklift and ramp.

Not high dollar. That’s the down payment to a lawyer good enough to maybe keep you out of prison.

Better stick to smash and grab at jewelry stores.

 

Cargo theft isnt anything new even where I live in Omaha.
A couple cut rate LtL companies were rampant with it .
Shopko/pamidas people were throwing stuff over the fence .
TSC has a DC there and had a trailer full of go carts dissapear ...trailer found empty in Missouri valley Iowa and tractor on a side street in council bluffs .
Crete had a load of beer go away from the council bluffs yard and the trailer found empty on a street in Omaha.
Dont hear so much about this now with cameras everywhere.

 

Back in 1991 I delivered milk for about 4 months. I could get a free gallon of milk from somewhere off the load everyday. My wife was pregnant with our fourth child and we were all living on 1 income. At that time, for us milk was a high dollar load...

 

Thats what most rational people think... But after doing 10 years or more on the inside, the thought of being dropped into an alien world where you have nothing and no one is more frightening than the fear was when they first went to prison. Prison is thier "safe place"... They know what to expect, and what not to expect.

Imagine having everything you need to survive available to you with little effort on your part. You are wealthy, have a nice house, you jave lots of friends, you can go work out at the gym, go play golf, or whatever you enjoy doing. Then one day you are instantly transported to the ritziest of ritzy cities... In Japan. With nothing except a crappy coat, worn out jeans, a faded blue shirt, cheap boots, and $100. You have nothing, no one, and despite recognising a few words you cant understand anyone. Nothing is familiar, nothing feels safe, even the best food doesnt taste good, and you feel scared & alone in a crowded room. A ringing telephone causes you to panic.

This is what its like getting out of prison after a lengthy sentence. I know it doesnt make sense to most people... Just like shooting an unarmed & surrendering enemy of war doesnt make sense to most people. These are the kinds of situations you cant understand unless you have lived them.

 

There's a solution:

Put a device like this on their neck, drop them off at a farm. Drop off some building supplies for them to build their own house...on their time. 8-4, they have to work the farm. They get done, they can build their own modest house. Leave the farm, lose your head. Family want to see you or help you build your home, that's cool. Do what you like on your time. Don't show up for work, lose your head. Get a penpal that wants to come see you, sure...no problem. Do your time, they take the bomb off your neck and pay you a wage if you want to stay. And you can stay in the house you built free of charge.

 

I personally know many guys that would jump at such an opportunity... And they would have a very nice farm with nice little farmstead in very short order.

I also know some that would loose thier heads... They are too lazy.

But this solution would ensure a hard working, productive member of society upon completion of sentence.

 

Most of them would jump at the opportunity. Prisons would produce food, no need for guards, no prison revolts/violence/ involuntary beef injections, and the workers would develop a sense of pride...especially around harvest. They could see their wives and kids and if the wife chose to live with him, she could. Save billions of tax dollars.

 

That was one thing that has always boggled my mind... Why have most of the prisons done away with the prison opporated farms??? Many states used to have large farms all labored by inmates, and those where the jobs inmates WANTED! They even had small tractors and other equipment to enable them to produce an excess so that it could be sold to help fund the prison and other rehabilitative programs. The inmates actually helped to pay for thier stay... Why has this gone away for the most part???

 

Political reasons. Can't talk about them. Against the rules.

In Bunkie,Louisiana there's a truck stop, Sammy's (a mom and pop place with good food, common in LA) with some of the nicest, most polite girls that you've ever seen in a mom and pop. Very polite, very pleasant. Shift change, the jail van shows up. 2nd shift unloads and first shift loads up and go back to lockup. Yessir, the girls that work in that restaurant are inmates. Would you believe that they are actually glad to be able to get out of jail to work their shift?

But, somewhere's there's a SJW who thinks that's cruel to 'force' these women to work in a restaurant. They're not forced. It's a choice they have...lockup or the restaurant. They chose the restaurant. I tell you, some of these SJW are sooooooooooo stupid. I went to Mepkin Abbey a few years back. It's a monastery an hour or so north of CharlestonSC. Full functioning monastery. Well, those PETA idiots were there protesting because the monastery sold eggs. PETA fools feel that was cruelty to eggs and that eggs should be purchased only from a grocery store. Not making it up.