Secure Doors on the Tractors?

Jake91 Ranger_301 is right. Remember one thing tho. A professional and determined thief will get in. Your task is to slow them down. If it takes more than a minute or two they are going to move on,but this only works if there is one thief. Most hijackings are done by teams of 2 or more people and these folks aren't afraid to use force. In this case let them have the truck and load. There isn't a load or truck worth getting hurt or killed over.

 

Good thing she finally stopped banking on your door, or she would have never gotten out.

Still, a cute girl in a miniskirt might be fun to keep around for a while...

 

Who hijacks a truck in traffic? Where are you going to go? A bunch of witnesses too.

A couple months ago I helped a driver break in his truck at a rest area. He locked his keys inside. It was a Ryder rental (Columbia). We had limited tools but one was a hammer. Since it was 2am he was tired and he exhausted all phone calls for help.
He took the hammer and beat and beat on the glass about 5 times and it didn't break. About the same time I got the idea of going in through the bunk storage door. I popped the door with no damage other than having to straighten the door catch back and he went through the bunk.

Long story short. That glass is tough.

 

When they hi-jack your truck,


never take a check, CASH only !!!!

 

well although i do not know your uncle, I DO KNOW stories about NYC, like the times the car thieves would be hoisting an engine up the side of the road to an awaiting van or truck.

or about the guy hanging from the trailer door as he opened it up while the truck was stopped at a red light, and the driver took off....

to mention only 2 stories i had heard over the years, and from all my years, driving various times around or through NYC, i ain't seen ANYTHING....

the doors are just regular door locks much like on YOUR car or pick up truck. and yes, someone could break into you car too right...?? as far as a baseball bat, again, it is easy to break "nearly any windows in the average car, or truck.

NO

when you stop and sleep anyplace, you secure your vehicle the best you can, that's a given.

as far as "extra securing" the doors, you could use a rope and tie both doors together if each door has a handle that allows this. or, you could use the seat belt as well, but the truck here is the inside door panel must have an opening that allows something to be wrapped around it.

some guys claim they have a "weapon of sorts", but that can be a problem at a later time. some drivers (if allowed) bring along thier pet dog, which when the dog barks the intruder will be scared away, you'd wake up, and that too will scare off the intruder, but actually, the intruder may not wait and see you wake up...!!!

just remember something, when a driver says, "this or that happened in NYC"........a good many times.......it's nothing more than a trucker's story...... because crap happens EVERYWHERE........like even at a truck stop in good old Gary, IN.....and this I HAVE SEEN......!!!!!

 

What Rerun8963 said. He just beat me to it.

 

I did have a trailer door opened, and a chair and loveseat taken off between stoplights in South Bronx. I had just left my last stop in the city, and was heading to LI for the next stop. This was about 3 in the afternoon. I wouldn't have known about it until the door hit something if someone on the sidewalk hadn't ran to the truck telling me my rear door was open. I first didn't believe them, and thought it was a scam, but it really was open, and some was furniture sitting on the floor halfway to the rear.

I guess they took what they could while the light was red, and took off when I moved. I still haven't figured how they moved it out of sight.

 

Back in another life I managed a hardware store and our main supplier handled all their logistics in house. It was their policy to padlock all the trailer doors EXCEPT when that trailer was going to NYC. If the trailer was going to NYC, the driver was supposed to take all the padlocks off. This was because they found that the trailers were going to get broken into at red lights no matter what. But if they kept the trailer locked, they'd get robbed AND they'd have to replace the door latch on the trailer so in the end, it was cheaper just to leave the locks off when they went to NYC.

As for someone trying to hijack the truck or otherwise get in the cab. There two or three scenarios where this could happen. One involves a mental patient who is acting out. This person won't have any kind of plan and will generally be harmless more or less once you make it clear to them that they're going to stop what they're doing and get off the truck or they're going to end up seriously injured. The normal door locks and windows are more than adequate for this scenario.

The other two involve a professional criminal with a plan or an angry mob. No door lock in the world is going to stop either one of these and no weapon in the truck short of having a loaded .357 in your lap at all times is going to keep you alive if their plan includes killing you. Reginald Denny was the last angry mob victim I remember hearing about. And I can't personally remember ever hearing of a trucker being hijacked and/or killed in any city for his or her load. I'm sure someone will be quick to tell me I'm wrong and mention the great Chicago top soil truck hijackings of 1972 or something like that but like I said, I've never personally heard of such thing so its not something I'd spend too much time worrying about myself.

 

Wasp spray would work real good..shoots far and will blind..