Police say thieves tied trucker up, stole cargo near Phoenix

570 miles.
Thieves are getting more and more sophisticated, and sometimes they will travel several hundred miles to "boost" a load.
I haul HIGH VALUE freight, worth far more than electronics (YOU know what I haul, and we don't need to repeat it here) and it isn't unheard of for our loads to be "followed" 3 or 4 hundred miles by theives looking for the opportunity to steal the loads.
Other companies that haul our freight have been stolen, OUR loads have not, although there has been several attempts.
It's all about safety and security.
We are never out of our trucks for longer than an hour; for one reason and we employ several security measures that when used together render the truck and trailer theft-proof.

 

Yeah, really rare in that area, I mean a trucker was shot and killed there not that long ago....

Inside job? Could be, but how do we know it wasn't a job from the shipper side, I'm pretty sure I know where he got his load from, and they aren't all on top of their game there.

 

That's still an "inside job".......

 

"FreightWatch" has told us that most of the thefts (in what we haul) are done by gangs from the Miami area, we haul mostly from Knoxville, Richmond and NYC areas.

 

Well not from inside the cab!

 

Something is really "fishy" in his story.
Generally in every freight theft I have heard of, including the FEW where the driver was tied-up, every time the trailer was "re-powered" and dissappeared completely, sometimes never being found again.
This is the first time I have heard of a load being "partially" off-loaded onto a smaller truck.
I wouldn't doubt if the driver was involved 100%.

I remember when I lived in Houston in 1982, the manager of a Supermarket was accosted in the early morning outside his store as he was opening up, tied up, beaten and robbed. 3 TIMES!
The last time he was shot and killed.
As it turned out, he was involved in the previous robberies, and his accomplices "did him" the third time.

 

can they use waterbording techniques to get the truth