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If I Stole Your Truck or Trailer
If I stole your truck and trailer, here's how I would do it.
by Michael VonWald
I loved the first Fast and Furious film. I have to acknowledge though; these guys went through a lot of ridiculous piece of work to steal a semi truck full of goods. Existence in this industry, I could accept given them a lesson or 2 that didn't include jumping out of moving cars and using grappling hooks. I know that drivers and companies leave these trucks and trailers out for the taking with little security. I estimate my movie on stealing rigs would be pretty boring.
I am non trying to convince you to outset stealing cargo. However, the average bank robbery nets about $four,330 (United states of america News & World Written report) compared to the average cargo theft which nets $232,924 as reported by Freight Watch International (FWI). That's a difference of $228,594 without a nasty shootout at the end. FWI also recorded an average of 66 cargo thefts occur per month or 2.ii per day. Those are merely the thefts that were reported. Cargo theft is a $30 billion dollar industry annually in the Usa and is growing (Entering Logistics).
DISCLAIMER: You may be wondering how I came up with the following method to rob your stuff. I accept e'er been and volition always be a constabulary-abiding citizen; I just make a living from protecting assets so I demand to think about these things to help our clients.
Lets get started. While contacting organizations to help with asset tracking, I have found that many companies avert investing in asset security. My first order of business would be to call you representing an asset security company and hope that y'all would tell me yous have never had an asset stolen and have no need for such a device or service (I am pretty sure this idea is original). If y'all did use a security service, I would probable put you at the lesser of my hit list, merely at to the lowest degree I have a heads upwards.
Then I would outset watching your vehicles, where you park them, and what kind of products y'all haul. One guy last year stole a semi-truck of 200,000 eggs, talk about a disappointing robbery. If they don't visually locate the truck, the aroma of rotten eggs should give your location abroad.
Adjacent, if I want the truck, the locks are not that hard to break through on most semi's (and then I hear), so I become in the cab and drive off while you or your commuter is at a rest cease and not paying attention or the truck/trailer is parked over nighttime. Your yard camera'due south or local truck terminate defenseless me on a video feed, but I was wearing all black, so skilful luck identifying me. Or, maybe I will vesture all white because I was feeling extra confident that evening. If I were just taking a trailer, I would just back upwards my ain tractor and have off.
Ok, just what if yous have GPS on your trailers? Nigh likely your device is run on the vehicle'south power and is secured to the outside of the chassis. Cut the electric line and cut the devices ability to ship tracking information. Or, I can purchase a GPS jamming case on ebay and cover your device. If I am not sure where the device is located, I tin can purchase a frequency based jammer for around $50 on jammer-store.com. All orders shipped via DHL are free, I told you this was easy (and quite cost effective).
So how practise you lot defend confronting cargo theft?
Using a GPS device is an obvious manner to start. But you lot take to think about how your device is powered and how to protect confronting the smarter criminals who are jamming the devices. This is the reason our devices give alerts the moment someone tries to utilise jamming methods. When someone uses jamming methods our devices take the ability to connect via cell, satellite, or wireless Cyberspace.
The devices also report on the moment someone opens a trailer door to remove goods from a trailer or locate a device. They are powered by a battery that lasts 6 – 12 months without an outside power source, allowing them to exist subconscious in goods or anywhere on a trailer. And did I say they are smaller than an iPhone? Skilful luck finding 1 of these things hidden in a trailer full of appurtenances.
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