Why Trucks In America Are Under Attack
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- Cargo theft has more than doubled in just a year as thieves are vanishing millions of dollars worth of goods. Strategic cargo theft is surging, where criminals engage in internet-based fraud. CNBC visited supply chain risk management company Overhaul’s Louisville, Kentucky operations to get an inside look at how the industry is fighting back. Watch the video above to learn more about how thieves are infiltrating U.S. supply chains and what it takes to prevent hidden heists, identity theft and more.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:23 Chapter 1: Stolen goods
4:00 Chapter 2: Fighting back
7:15 Chapter 3: Future threats
Produced and edited by: Andrea Miller
Additional Camera by: Tasia Jensen
Additional Reporting by: Lori Ann LaRocco
Animation: Jason Reginato
Supervising Producer: Lindsey Jacobson
Additional Footage: Overhaul, Uber Freight, Getty Images
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Why Trucks In America Are Under Attack
When I worked for an employee-owned trucking company, every single load (that a driver would drive) would have a cargo shortage, and that “shortage” would be blamed on the driver as a theft. The truth was that the guys packing merchandise onto the pallets (prior to the trailer being loaded with pallets) were the ones stealing merchandise, but the trucking company chose to always blame the drivers.
They condone that problem. In reality, it could be prevented easily. The very first person who receive the goods from customers would account for them all then a seal would be put on. The loaders just need to load and sign to confirm that no seal was broken after receiving over from the receiver. Truck drivers will just sign and confirm no seal was broken after loading by loader. And the customer counts and signs no seal was broken. Nothing would go unaccounted for as long as everyone is accountable.
@@Bthdk-tc6yi The trucking company that I am referring to was a gigantic frozen food warehouse, and everything in the warehouse supplied the fast food industry. The guys packing the pallets were ORDER PICKERS, and they would misrepresent the number of items placed onto a pallet. Each pallet was fully loaded with whatever a single fast food restaurant had ordered, one week before. (The entire trailer would be packed with enough stuff for anywhere between 5 to 7 fast food restaurants.)
You see, the front of a refrigerated trailer contains all the frozen items. A big, usually blue, padded mat separates the frozen stuff from the mid-section of the trailer. The mid-section of the trailer contains the food that only requires refrigeration. Another padded, blue mat is installed as a separator, behind the refrigerated mid-section. The last section, which is right next to the rear doors of the trailer, contains all the "dry" stuff, such as mops, mop buckets, etc.
@@user-ud6ui7zt3r
How were the real culprits discovered?
@@Bthdk-tc6yi The "business model" for this particular trucking company was as follows...
• they would continuously run a relatively local ad, advertising for new drivers, on cable TV, usually during FOXNews types of broadcasts, and usually these ads would run predominantly late at night;
• the TV ad would promise new drivers Big Wages, along with a BIG sign-on bonus;
• every driver I worked with told me that they NEVER SAW the sign-on bonus in their pay;
• the trucking company would always, on every delivery trip, accuse the new driver of shortages (i.e. theft), and would deduct the amount of the shortage from the new driver's pay;
• the trucking company regarded New Drivers to be very easy to come by, and, like I already said, this trucking company CONSTANTLY ran a cable TV ad, advertising for New Drivers;
• the result was that this trucking company didn't care a wit about New Drivers, and would deliberately tick them off until they predictably quit.
@@xps1997 The drivers that I worked with knew who the culprits had to be. You see, I would ride along in the tractor, with the driver, as a Driver's Helper. Whenever we arrived at a fast food restaurant, I would help the driver unload that restaurant's requested supplies/food, as quickly as possible. Me and the driver worked side-by-side, from the moment the "run" began to the moment the "run" finished. I never saw a driver steal anything. (By deduction, that means that the inevitable shortages occurred _BEFORE_ the "run" ever started!) So-... to answer your question... the real culprits were never _formally_ discovered... unless you count me and the driver as respectable detectives.
I remember watching a documentary in the early 2000s about trucks getting hi-jacked by a family in Honda Civics, they had someone go undercover to stop them.
Fast n furious lmao 🤣
Imagine using people to catch people. Bet it would cost a lot less and would be more effective, then add an old school junk yard dog and cameras. Wouldn’t take long to know who’s the liars, cheaters and thieves. We are stupid not to have a real working rail system to begin with, but that’s how our government decided to handle their helping finance move union manufacturing jobs overseas. Tearing the roads to hell with beefing up THE middle class blue color job left here. Now they don’t even pay well enough as finance erodes standard of living in the U.S.
RIP officer Brian O'Conner
No one here likes the tuna sandwich
Ahh the good ol days when hi-jacking trucks was all about family 😢
There was a story I heard years ago about a manufacturing plant in the Mid-West. When they had an audit, they came up short by about 100 000 units. Management's first response - as it always is in cases like that - was 'we are getting ripped off by our workers'. So they strengthened gate procedures and kept a suspicious surveillance eye on everybody.
It wasn't until some time later, when everybody, rank and file included, had a chance to have a critical think about it and it was pointed out that to remove this many units would have required nearly 100 fully loaded semis. So to suspect employee pilferage, like guys loading up the trunks of their cars, was complete nonsense.
E ventually, the explanation everybody settled on was that sales and marketing had been offering an additional unit for every one dozen sold, and the additionally units shipped never got booked or they weren't booked correctly.
But sure enough, employee theft was the first conclusion management jumped to.
Salary workers will always gang up on hourly workers. They always see hourly workers as lesser than in the organization. In their mind, salary workers can do no wrong.
Mmmm
@k9man163, some of those are educated theif too they do in a way that make hard to catch them.
Is this sus for anyone else? So one of the experts they used is from an insurance company, Travelers… who benefits from businesses believing they are at the highest risk. Instead of pulling their statistics from the department of transportation or any other neutral source… they pulled it from Cargonet… a company that performs cargo security and recovery. Another company that benefits by convincing business that they are at the highest risk they’ve ever experienced.
What I see, recently, is that drivers will park TWO trailers, as close as possible,rear-to-rear, followed by driving both tractors away. Two trailers parked that way would be very difficult to break into.
Plasma cut a nice new "door" it is then 😂
@@nunyabiznez666 Behind each sheet of sheet metal siding is a sheet of plywood. You might want to switch "cutting implements" in order to deal with the plywood. It's funny how, on the outside, a trailer looks all modern, with modern print-advertising and photographs, printed onto sheet metal... YET... on the INSIDE... the trailer is actually a plywood Wooden Cart. Our modern world owes a great deal to the availability and cost effectiveness of TREES.
@@user-ud6ui7zt3r Not all trailers. I know our trailers have metal interiors, not plywood. Stronger, but heavier. Yes, some older trailers have plywood sides inside them but shippers hate them if they aren't perfectly smooth. It tears the product up. If the plywood is mangled to a certain point, shippers will refuse the trailer.
@@darthhauler9947 I work for a company that has no standard sized pallets (pallets are cardboard of every size imaginable). Our trailers come in with pallets triple stacked (floor to roof) and tight from side to side. Basically if it's loaded properly you can't even fit a person inside the van. Wood walls (and sometimes metal ones) that are torn to crap are the bane of my existence. So much damage to our product.
"Your package was lost in delivery"
The worst notification to get
The real story is how cargo is used to transport stolen goods worldwide, out of North America. Like stolen cars ending up for sale in Dubai.
Go watch the CBC story about the dude having his big SUV stolen.
When a couple of mechanics can dissasemble a car in 4h imagine what a trained criminal can do.
Nobody will bother checking the parts.
@@michaelrmurphy2734the CBC blocked comments on the video. Google the article they show and its refugees with north africa connections that can get them to dubai and middle east
@klkconklk8411 Most of the whole country is living paycheck to paycheck...
@klkconklk8411 that's what happens when you put Democrats in office 😢
Great use of tech by the logistic companies but if law enforcement/police can't be bothered to use the data to catch the thieves, and punishments aren't severe, then the thieves will just keep on doing it. Same applies to lower level crime like porch pirates. Like when the police don't bother to follow-up even when the thief's face has been captured on a Ring doorbell camera.
prisons are overflowing while the pool of guards is shrinking. the police see no reason to go after porch pirates when they dont get any repercussions
Swamping would be the case with all this data.
It's petty crimes to local P.D. and S.O.'s they will write the report on recycled paper and toilet paper
Cops don’t give a crap, we can thank the last 3 years of BS protests, younger cats not liking them on a mass scale because they were brainwashed and covid mandates by the states on their employees.
Police are too busy engaging in pointless car chases, raiding the wrong homes, issuing parking tickets, doing asset forfeiture, and acquiring surplus military gear. Actual criminals, which would require work, are left untouched. The same goes for prosecutors ignoring white collar crime.
@CNBC why didn't your story mention how theft is not prosecuted anymore? I'm sure that's a large contributing factor
Had a $11k package weighting 500 lbs disappear passing through Chicago. Had the replacement delivered closer to the origin point and drove the pieces of the package ourselves to the final destination. The thing is the package was not directly resellable.
your machinery was probably sold black market..
With how cheap cameras have become I’m surprised that every truck doesn’t have cameras installed that record and stream to a server. With how the current tech the camera can even send an alert on a suspected theft which would alert someone in a control room who can alert police.
Camera's are becoming cheaper, but wifi in trucks and especially containers on trucks is not especially for bigger companies
@@itzgamerz3102 That's just silly. Aside from some remote or mountainous areas cell coverage covers vast majority of US roads/highways. All the Cell carriers offer business accounts.
Problem is police do not response. I've called for car being stolen and many others. I mostly am laughed at by the 911 operators or cops dont even show. They are on strike still
Tech is not magic. And efficiency is a double edged sword. If your system generates 100 alerts and you can afford only 2 responders then all that tech is an unnecessary waste.
@@rayr268 Yes police response is an issue. The thing is the folks doing these robberies need to keep doing them. If you keep contacting police right away as its in progress these thieves will get arrested.
When I was hauling TV's this was before drivers had to take a break after 8 hours of drive time, you arrived at the shipper with a full tank and slept there to get a full clock, once that was done you were loaded and was told that you could not stop for at least 500 miles, the average 4 wheeler can only go 300 miles but I drove the whole 11 hours as I did every day which on average I was able to cover 700 plus miles. But most theft of freight typically consists of an insider giving the information of the freight to thieves at the cost of a little bit of money. I never had a problem with theft when I was hauling high value freight. When shutting down I took the initiative to back the trailer real close to the next trailer at the truck stop and was aware of my surroundings. Most drivers don't like driving the whole 11hrs at once, most only drive about 7-9hrs and then shut down for the day. But the further you can get away from the shipper the better off you'll be when it comes to possibility of theft.
Yeah, and some of us can't. I'm on a water pill and have to stop every hour or so to take a leak so now I stay local. Even before the pill I rarely drove more than 4 hours straight without stopping for fifteen minutes to stretch my legs and take a leak. Besides, if a group of thieves really wanted your truck, they'd bring a fueler truck with them like in the movie Need for Speed so they could refuel without stopping. It doesn't take much these days to stop a truck either. All you have to do is get in front of most of the newer models and slow down and eventually stop. The auto-braking in the anti-collision system will stop the truck and make it oh so simple to steal in its entirety. We used to be able to push or ram cars out of the way but no longer the case. Thank a politician for that.
@@darthhauler9947 Indeed I certainly forgot to add to the medical aspect of some drivers to the statement, very true if they really wanted the truck thieves could prepare by having a fuel truck of some type but most aren't that sophisticated unless it's organized crime which may be the case in this situation they might want to get the fbi involved I certainly think it's an inside job most of the time.
Pretty sure its illegal not to take breaks at least it is in countries that actually give a damn about their workers
@@michaelandrews4783the USA 🇺🇸 doesn’t care. We are a land of slave wages and slaves
No mention that theft always involves someone on the inside. Security guards earn nothing and gladly turn their head for a C note. Clerks tell which trailer numbers have the good stuff in them.
An insider threat is not ALWAYS the cause, it is just one of several possible causes. Criminals are very creative.
This is a crime that's also spiking here in Mexico, they are more violent tho. They are physically attacking the drivers with militar grade firearms 😢
New era of piracy
Yes… You are correct. Low paid workers in the logistics chain are vulnerable to just looking the other way. This is particularly acute in other countries. It’ll only get worse.😮
You don’t know what your talking about .
no.
its usually people that work there for a month and leave
Same reason why theft in general is increasing: because everything is ridiculously expensive, and all that extra money being charged is going to shareholders, executives and the ultra-rich. Prices are going up but wages aren't. This is NOT inflation, this is greed.
Of course it is. Greedy businessmen and shareholders.
Welcome to the "3rd world". 😞
That’s how capitalism works. You can’t desire the benefits of socialism and hate socialism at the same time.
@@thomaskim3128 I agree 100%. Keep it real brotha!
Screw you for saying poor people are the reason for this. I was raised up dirt poor but never stole anything. You're what's wrong with the world.
goods that "fell off the back of a truck" have been around since trucks.
Heh, aye.
"We can't depend on law enforcement" unfortunate truth
As long as theft is personally profitable beyond alternatives, and there are no consequences, it will continue.
Maybe because nobody is being held accountable by corrupt DAs.
I would have guessed there was more than $130 million in cargo theft in 2023.
130 million? That was just on Tuesday alone.
@@stanpatterson5033 My neighbors alone stole 130 million worth of 2023 from these trucks.
I know....hilarious. Porch pirates steal more than that. @@stanpatterson5033
makes you start thinkin about joining the other side 😂😂
@@Fusion710as long as you understand you'll spend eternity screaming in hell
Most trailers are sealed with a thin metal or even plastic seal. This doesn't surprise me one bit. It's not a federal govt problem, it's a cheap freight problem. Once these loads leave the shipper it is insured and any losses are absorbed by the shipper who passes the problem to the driver who doesn't get paid a fraction of what the load is worth. You can track it however you want, it won't make a difference and won't bring prices down in fact it will make it more expensive.
That's the calculation. You can see it in the numbers. Cheap freight is more valuable than "collateral damage" of just $120 million or however much they mentioned here. Billions worth of cargo, losing $120 million is a drop in the bucket if it means companies can get away with paying a pittance for the service generally. It's cynical, not least because it might be ignoring the wider consequences of making theft that easy, and of underpaying and overworking personnell.
It's to easy with the plastic seal to get into the load. You just make sure you cut the plastic up where the band goes through the hoop. Get a couple of your buddies one in the truck and two outside. Quietly, open the door's the driver is usually asleep. One buddy in the truck other two on the ground pitch and throw what you want. After you get at least 2 boxes each. Close the door, take your lighter heat up the end of the cut plastic tag and stick it back on to the hoop. You have to be fast and organized. Each person got two medium sized boxes, run through the wooded area to your car parked along side the highway. This is the snatch and grab that is played at rest areas along the highway. Usually, there is a look out that knows what kind of stuff each truck is carrying. Food trucks are ones that are hit in this area. The next day the thieves go to their local people to sell the foods. However, lately it's been clothing that is being hit. Expensive dresses and name brand clothing. The driver has no idea he has been robbed until he shows up at the drop off. Sometimes the driver is in on it and will stop, at an unusual location just to have half his load unloaded. Paperwork disappears, no one says a thing.
Everything you say I completely disagree with.
Does it matter what its made of? If you had no front door to your house, doesn't mean anyone is allowed to walk in. It's not their house, it's illegal. So it's smart for a company to use thin metal or cheap materials and you know why? 1. It's cheap. 2. If they used inch slabs of steel or iron the gas price to drive a truck that heavy would quadruple not to mention they could carry a fraction of their load if they have to haul a super heavy trailer. It is a federal government problem because shipping interstate which means they are driving across multiple borders which means it's not 1 company or 1 states problem, its a problem for the entire country and considering our entire livelihood as a people in this country depend on shipping of goods it most definitely becomes a federal government problem to try to tackle the issue.
Then your argument of randomly getting paid a fraction of what his load is worth? Huh? What makes you think you get paid by what you ship? You know how terrible that sounds. Ship a truck full of Macbooks and make bank meanwhile someone else ships a truck full of water bottles and makes pennies. Tying the two together is just asinine. If I own a goldmine and hire people to mine it, it doesn't mean I have to pay them in gold just because the product I am getting is worth a lot. I am paying you for your labor, not a percentage of my wealth. Or do you think someone who gets paid 20 dollars to clean a car should get 20,000 for cleaning a Ferrari? Sure a nicer car you might pay for a better service and maybe it costs 200 dollars just because the level of detail you want vs your average Toyota, but there is a limit of ones value and worth. Otherwise a Janitor cleaning a fortune 500 companies building should just demand a 7 figure salary.
In fact the only issue here, and the one issue you seem to be leaving out and ignoring is the ACTUALY THIEVES, or did you forget?
No one should have to put locks on anything, no one should need cameras, no one should need any of that stuff if people actually had integrity and actually...you know, worked for what they needed instead of taking and stealing.
That's the issue, THIEVES. Be accountable and stop blaming everything but the actual real problem. Like whining about jails not having proper healthy meals...uh don't go to jail then. Geez.
The best theft prevention and detection is negated when District Attorneys fail to enforce the law. Has the conviction rate for freight theft increased using this new technology?
All of this a moot point when the DOT is our here PREYING on Commercial Drivers and Trucking Companies vastly UNDERPAYING those same Drivers. The US is in DESPERATE need of commercial drivers but it refuses to take care of them accordingly so...freight will continue to rot away in ports and it will be stolen at even higher rates.
You have a point. I drive, around L A. Small truck, and brokers, get away, with so much! They incremented their rates, about 20% around the pandemic, but I got a little bit of that. They are always crying, while I always provide a good service. The industry is so undepay, that is a joke!
I know people in Tijuana and in Los Angeles who have opens stores with 100% stollen items
Tell me more
... tell us more
In NYC on some streets they have open air markets that I’m sure have stolen stuff because it’s so cheap I bought a usbc apple charger for $10
I bet those stolen items came from those Union Pacific stack Trains in East LA during the Pandemic smh
@@klaromio in la I have a buddy that has a store in the ally’s he buys stollen things like packages ,shoplifted things , and like this stollen pallets from semi trailers
In Tijuana I know someone who has a stall where they sell stollen hygiene products he pays his house car and put his kid through school all with hygiene stollen from cvs
You can have alarms and sensors go off, but it doesn't matter if the theft is going to continue uninterrupted
We definitely need cops to be active in theft deterrent. The way it seems now I'd almost bet they were in on it though they'll deny it, I'm sure. But realistically, calling 911 and saying you're a truck driver and you're being hijacked should be treated like a 'shot's fired' situation. Drop what you're doing and converge.
So from shoplifters now it's cargo robbers. What's with crime rates in USA?
Trump and Biden
Because my country owes me. They make billions off my data and give nothing back. I am entitled to take what I want.
@@kidShibuya Yes, we call that stealing.
You listed petty thieves, and the main thieves sit in offices, palaces, banks, on their own yachts, on the stock market.... They steal billions and trillions of dollars every year!
@@kidShibuya😂😂💀💀
You might have to incentivize the picking, packing and loading crews.
If the shipment is congruent with the manifest they get a bonus. If there's a short fall, then they lose their bonus.
That gets everyone in the crew to have "conversation in the parking lot" with the new guy.
Re: I think we're at an all time high in terms of cargo theft.
We can't talk to those old guys worked the docks before the invention and implementation of the Sea Can but if we could....they'd tell us of the glory days of break bulk cargo shipping.
The Scottish Whisky industry was one of the first to aggressively adopt the shipping container.
It wasn't uncommon for them to lose 40 percent of a consignment.
Cargo theft is the new hussle. Criminals most likely already done the risk assessment. If they steal $1,000 worth of cargo and sell the for $5,000 tax free and spend 3 months of jail, thats a profitable risk.
It’s unfortunate but shippers need to upgrade their security somehow. Plain and simple. I’ve seen monitoring as an option but cargo theft is gonna continue to rise in US supply chain
It doesn't have to rise with cargo in trucks or in retail stores. Lack of punishment is a judicial system problem.
Uber freights format is a nightmare for cargo theft. "ITS UBER FOR FREIGHT!" Imagine shipping your freight with an Uber driver lol...just insane.
the pollution...
I would certainly not trust an individual "independent contractor" with having all the systems and processes required to deter and react to organized burglaries.
I am sure this Uber Freight has nothing to do with Uber ride share.
@@maestrovsosame company, and they treat truckers as poorly as they treat ride share drivers
That’s the broker auction that rewards the lowest bidder the load. It’s a complete joke been saying it for years that it wasn’t good for the industry. Get rid of the broker middle men pay the drivers and deal with shippers and receivers through phone and in person like the salesman use to do. That was a good business model
Everything is going up except for wages. So the inside man gets some extra money on top of whatever bs the company is paying him, the middleman makes some money, and the people buying get the product they want cheaper than retail. It’s a natural consequence of the state of capitalism at the moment
Seems a lot of the problems with modern capitalism stems from insider actions, whether it's shareholders hoarding profits or dock staff tipping off cargo thieves.
Inequality also at an all time high and 3/5 job listings are fake.
BS
Stolen goods have to be sold somewhere -- you can't spend computer parts like cash, so someone has to be buying. Moreover, there has to be incentive for someone to buy, and that's typically the expectation they can turn it around for a profit. All of this comes back to out of control price increases and the unavailability of affordable goods, both problems that the corporate sector itself is ultimately responsible for. I guarantee you, if they were to strike the deals needed to slash prices by even just 20% across the board we'd see a commensurate drop in cargo theft. Why? Because the squeeze on middle and lower end consumers would be reduced and they'd be able to save -- and therefore spend -- more comfortably. If the CEOs and shareholders want this problem to go away they need to get comfortable with not constantly chasing higher and higher profits. They need to get comfortable with being rich without being super rich, with having more than enough but not having everything.
This is escalation, pure and simple -- constantly increasing profits have to come from somewhere, and at the end of the day if companies are paying bare-bones wages while spiking prices there comes a breaking point for the average person just struggling to survive. Once upon a time, the idea of a fair economic exchange was a seller and a buyer haggling until either one of them walked away or they were able to mutually agree upon a price. Nowadays only the seller has any say on price, the price keeps going up, and those willing to call this out as unsustainable are branded with nonsense scare tactic labels like "communist" or "socialist", neither of which most Americans can accurately identify let alone explain.
If you look at the great nations of history, we are seeing now many of the same signs that preceded the fall of empires. We need to reign in the out of control greed machine that is our corporate edifice before it strangles us in the name of profits!
Aye
The store I work for had pallets of meat stolen from one shipment during Christmas two years ago and during the covid lockdowns a semi was robbed of a toilet paper shipment its ridiculous
OK, so the shipper knows when a load has been compromised. So what? The cops are uninterested, or very slow in responding. This is a piece of cake for thieves.
Exactly. Also, kudos for using uninterested instead of disinterested.
@@drmodestoesq Cops may also be secretly disinterested. No-show jobs and such.
Remember, wage theft by companies is more than all robberies combined.
Allowing crime to happen. End.
Anyone remember that the plotline of the first FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie concerned Dom Toretto and his “Family” committing CARGO THEFT?!!
I'm in trucking industry current situation is not good as is, and now we're seeing increase in theft and fraud, this is not going to end well for everyone and it all will come down to end consumers.
I believe rail theft outstrips truck theft.
Wage theft in the United States is estimated at $50 billion annually. That is 384 times more than the value of cargo theft, but it affects many more poor people than rich companies.
Thanks for the advertisement on new gig work
Inflation, inflated taxes on top of inflation, police never put effort into punishing these crimes, because there's no net benefit. The thing about cocaine is that they can resell it to cartels to keep to the drug war going.
Yep, Trump and the republicans.
Lol I’m a broker, trust me when i say Uber Freight is no better off from theft. Didn’t know this was a commercial for Uber freight.
A few years back I parked at a truck stop in Idaho next morning I woke up and my trailer doors were wide open but joke on those suckers my trailer was empty. Definitely learned afterwards to back a trailers inches to the next trailer or to any barrier that will prohibit them from opening my trailer doors.
or you could just lock your empty trailer pal
@@billybob7891 Yep locks stop thieves 100% fool proof good thing we have not yet invented bolt cutters or a dozen other methods for removing locks without a key.
Ah! we are back to the 50s and 60s where the mob hijacked cigarettes, shrimp and lobsters, you name it, whatever they could get their hands on... Shrimp and lobsters were best.
Not really the same. Italians are only half black
you're going to quote the only mafia movie that compared sicilians to moors? how dare you.
@@bigloser4139 touche my friend. It is a great movie despite the degeneracy of the director.
@@operationawesome8662I was appalled of how lazy you were since that quote is so common. I liked your comment overall.
Why is it accelerating? Because in case you haven't noticed outside, people are going hungry.
THAT'S why you think crime is increasing? Wow.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Haven't you noticed how thin and weak today's criminals are? Barely able to lift a bolt cutter.
Hungry but they have a nice Sprinter van to steal with 🤔
Yeah, its not that complicated to understand the why
People ain't robbing bread trucks and milk tankers......going hungry cuz they stealing wants....not needs
Imagine how it'll be when it is self driving trucks without a human driver!!
Nobody has ever touched my package. 😢
:p
where i work is really behind the times . someone was recently caught for stealing packs of lumber and they let him resign ,. they also still have not changed code for keybox for gate lock up . and now they have started to leave loaded shipping containers on chaseys ready for pick up outside the gates :P keys are also all left in machines at night allowing for thieves to simply jump on a forklift or truck , people come to pick up loads and nothing is checked driver just comes into yard hooks up to can and leaves atleast on pm shifts :P im really big on safety and security but unfortuantly my employer is not
I work at logistics hub for trucks. Recently two trailers got stolen and it was worth thousands of dollars.
I am working on a paper and need a good source(s) where insurance, carrier, shippers and/or receivers data is reported annually and can be viewed. I am looking not only for cargo theft, road accidents freight loss, but shortages at deliveries, cargo rejections do to temperature issues, cargo theft at warehouses or manufacturing facilities, etc. Any help is much appreciated on this topic.
Definitely an inside job. You have no idea what is being shipped unless someone told you. Its not worth breaking into random trucks just find pallets of sheetrock. They know exactly which trucks to hit
How do I get a job monitoring these systems?
Cargo theft, retail theft, carjackings, online scams, robberies, illegal migrant prostitution, onlyfans, etc. What crime isn’t spiking in the U.S.?
Jaywalking.
@@darinherrick9224 That is what the cops care about.
Some of the LTL package services like UPS have had problems with "diversion by re-labeling" at distribution centers. A new label is placed over the existing label which re-directs delivery to a confederate's home address instead of the purchaser's address. No muss, no fuss!
Why is it surging?
Answer: It's because it cannot protect itself.
Until criminals fear the victim, crime will continue
@@chiquita683that's how we end with civil defense groups and... srly we don't want that. Why is theft rising tho? more and more people earn less from regular jobs, degrees don't mean much more than lifetime debts, and people are still immersed in a consumption driven society... consumers are feeding this type of black market because poverty is rising, sellers exist because other jobs are scarse and bad in comparison.
This is a sign of an economy going to hell.
@@rocknpirates456 the real reason economy is collapsing it's because there is no new technology is invented. In that means we're trap in a technological paradox.
Rather there's no new technology that the average worker is able to readily exploit for themselves. It's us getting exploited by new technology because of the difficulty to learn and refusal by its current masters to share the knowledge needed to administer, maintain, and improve it on our own.
I suspect some black Honda Civics with green neon under glow lights are involved in these heists.
Great video. But, as usual, when it comes to the hardware aspect, too much focus on tracking and alarms systems, which will not stop an attack on your container or truck. As for the "reverse logistics" counter-argument to locks, that is a solvable issue (smarter route planning, or smarter choice of movable or fixed locks, etc.) and still a better option than losing hundreds of millions of dollars every year... Happy to discuss more about better locking systems for containers and trucks.
To all drivers out there: thank you for your work and stay safe!
Desperate times calls for desperate measures
I don't ever want to hear from that uber french fry again.
I remember watch the movie good fellas,
they always highjacked trucks!!
Yeah I don't have a problem with this...I'm sure someone will say, but the prices of goods will go up and my response to you is "not if you steal it". I'm sure someone is going to point out theft is wrong and I am with you up until 1% have 80% of the wealth. You'll say they should get skills people need and work. My counter argument is if they successful plan and steal 100k; they worked for it. If the choice is between staving and theft; Theft it is. End of the day if people are turning to crime to feed their families that is a failure of leadership in the United States. Corrupt government, corrupt corporations, and corrupt federal law enforcement; the country is in a death spiral. If no one if going to follow the rules and have some common decency/ respect for others; its back to survival of the fittest. Either there is a way people should live or there isn't and if it isn't then the guy with the biggest stick makes the rules.
I have no love for large corporations... Pay people livable wages or don't be surprised when your stuff gets stolen. I don't care if you can't afford your new mega yacht. People are already tired of the WEF and other centralized powers. It's only a matter of time before the 1% get what they deserve.
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You can put all the tech ya wanna into any capacity hauling. It ain't gonna stop theft at all. It's the ramifications of theft that has to change .
Try putting them in prison for 15 years first offense, 20 years second conviction.
Video volume too low? Or is it just me?
All this changes nothing. If police don't/can't respond & even when they do it's to take a report and if they stumble upon your load later it's held for evidence until trial during which time most of it disappears and finally just before trial the prosecutors dismiss or reduce charges.
Remind me of mobster time, trucks full of electronics got jacked.
Whoops, everything got too expensive and people are turning back to piracy to make ends meet. Not sure how to solve this, but corporate decided we're gonna start by raising prices.
What's crazy we cant protect ourselves out here on the road and everything that happens get blamed on us...
All by design to make drivers look like idiots to keep pay low.
Ramen noodles have never been so valuable 🎉😂
I love that CEO even when he is talking crap his smile would give u all the u need to put ur confidence in him.
It’s like that diner scene in Goodfellas, what did he say in that scene again 🤔
Fed Govnt: “Pease declare your stolen goods on taxes this year.”
It's surging because no one can afford absolutely anything in this economy. Not saying theft is right or ok just saying this will only get worse until something gets done about it.
Right, the best way to make people pro-social and more conservative is to _provide_ something of real value to lose. And no, being alive itself is not enough seeing how little we actually value other humans.
If no one can afford anything why are they shipping anything? 🤔
Bull💩. People are spending money *like water* on non-essential goods. Expendable income is up, regardless of how you try to spin it. This is not a matter of people who can't afford "things." The only people arguing this are either those on the far left who defend the thieves as some sort of freedom fighters (🤣) or people on the MAGA side trying to score weak political points by insinuating the obtuse argument that "biDeN hAS rUiNeD tHe coUnTrY!"
This is a criminal enterprise that has taken advantage of the huge amount of commerce being shipped to make relatively easy scores, and law enforcement (for decades now) has placed almost no importance whatsoever on theft cases. "Just write it off and file an insurance claim." Until THAT changes, these thefts will continue.
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Welp
We noticed that as we paid slave wages, the criminal employees started to steal food. Stupid poor people, just grind harder by working 25 hours a day every day
this is what happens when people cant even afford to feed their family. its going to keep getting worse until the situation is fixed.
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Guarantee the warehouse workers are tipping off the thieves which trucks are carrying the goodies the thieves want.
the video doesn't answer the question in the title.
Such an “advanced” society can’t even think of a lock for cargo trailers that can’t be unlocked in 7 seconds…
Given that the "theft" may be company-internal also opens further possibilities of subsequent insurance fraud, some of these companies may not be particularly interested in having their cargo protected.
Why not?
sometimes all the employees show their interest for theft .Now a days No honesty in the society.
Transportation is an essential component in the development of societies due to its economic and environmental impacts. Typically, between 6 and 8% of company costs can be attributed to transport.
In particular, an efficient freight transport system is required as it plays a significant role in the competitiveness of an urban area and represents an important element for the local economy regarding the employment and income that it generates.
Because of the varying nature of transported goods and cargo, there are different types of road transport used by logistics companies around the world. This is also based on the degree of development and local infrastructure, as well as the distance that the goods are required to travel by road. The weight and volume of an individual shipment also play an important role when deciding on a type of vehicle.
For short distances and light, small shipments a van or pickup truck will suffice, whereas large shipments (even if less than a truckload) are transported by a truck. This is often in the form of a third-party logistics (3PL) solution that allows for more cost-effective pricing and improved supply chain management.
Question: How to prevent freight theft?
1. Screen and train your staff: Your staff play a crucial role in preventing cargo theft. They should not share details about the type of cargo, routes and destinations with third parties.
2. Fit extra licks to your trailer or container: Fit the rear doors of your truck or container with a mechanical security lock or an electronic lock.
3. Make clear agreements and a good planning: Always make clear agreements with your customers. Make sure you have a good planning, with a safe place and time for loading and unloading. It is important that the driver can leave immediately after loading and does not have to leave the lorry unattended.
Question: What are the main advantages of road transport?
It is the most profitable. Road transport is the cheapest means of transport available. It is the fastest and most agile. Flexibility of schedules and volumes. Maximum traceability. Door-to-door service. Easy paperwork. Less load capacity.
Best Regards!
There is nothing - nothing beyond our capacity if we do it together. My fellow Americans, thank you for your time. 🇺🇸🤝
Cheapest is actually by floating, then by rail. Trucks are the most _convenient_ because it's door-to-door and doesn't require direct access to a canal, port, or railhead, but it comes at the cost per ton of at least 10x that of water and steel due to the extra fuel burned and staff paid.
You leave out an important part, driver pay. Truck drivers are horribly underpaid, many struggle to make ends meet. In some areas, thieves or accomplices will hang out in truck stops, listening to drivers complain, maybe strike up a conversation, learn things, then take it from there.
Why doesn't this report include information on which type of the three theft categories amounts to how much of lost value? There's only the combined value given of $120 million, then the categories are introduced (identity impersonation, pilferage, etc), but no numbers are given for how much value is lost to each category. Percentage changes, likewise, mean very little without knowing the numbers in absolute terms. A 300% increase is a lot, an increase from 1 to 3 cases is nothing.
And lastly, this report sounds more like an ad for Uber Freight than a useful report on the actual problem. It doesn't help that it's filled with corporate "we have the best innovations" jargon.
0:00 How are they able to open the doors on that lorry, they should be locked during transport
Inside job, drivers get a cut.
Simple locks are not enough to stop determined crew
They cut the locks off
Bolt cutters can chew thru a lock shackle or a bolt seal just as fast as you could pop a plastic seal off.
We never heard of locks, keys, & guns.
I blame Fast and Furious for glamorizing this! Still don't know why they'd do it in Civics though...
How about getting Bounty Hunters on the case? Stage them at distribution centers, get them gear they need to make a stop and recovery, and no more problems...
Wow! Indo's logistic culture also spread into US. In indo... it's named "bajing loncat".
So proud!! 🇮🇩🇮🇩💪💪😎😎
What if they cut the pipe not the wire?
Nice way to advertise some security features. Sure there is a way to detect, scan, and spoof or replicate that signal 😅
Great.. now in 3 years an algorithm is going to be determining the price of goods based on "route risk."
Soft on crime is the problem.
Yep, Trump and the republicans.
I would like to see this same information shared but relating to Canada.
And they will use RF scanners to hijack the RF lock on the truck then will jam it and by the tyme the monitoring hub receives the loss of signal from the damaged lock the trailer has been emptied or completely stolen
Well thanks to this advertisement now the thief knows how to go around it and continues to rob
Pretty easy to fix put an alarm on the door i bet they rather collect insurance than spend on security
Because law enforcement is more interested in its own criminal activities than doing the job it is supposed to do.
Theft wouldn't be high if you let employees keep their jobs now you laid them off this is what is expected and the more jobs layoff and close the more crime is going to rise.
I remember traveling to South America 20 years ago, and sometimes having personal items stolen by airport security from your luggage was apparently a regular occurrence. Just 3rd world country things
I watched a guy steal a slab of meat out of the back of his own truck once lol. I was confused on what I was actually seeing.