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Cargo theft increasing
FreightWatch reported the volume of cargo theft grew throughout the western hemisphere.
February 22, 2011
Channel 19
700,000 prophylactics yanked from cargo container
You just can’t discount the humor in some cargo thefts — long as, of course, it’s not your load getting boosted. While in the cases of the zoo-bound camels and tiger heisted in Quebec or the stolen load of green highlighters in South Carolina there was at least a probability, albeit a small one, that […]
February 9, 2011
Business
FreightWatch: Cargo theft rose in 2010
Cargo theft industrywide rose by 4.1 percent in 2010 to an average of 75 cargo theft incidents per month, the most ever recorded.
January 19, 2011
Channel 19
Combating cargo theft: An interview with Schneider security director Walt Fountain
When I visited Schneider National’s Green Bay, Wis., headquarters in June for the carrier’s 75th-anniversary celebration, I got an up-close look at one of many efforts the company’s put in place over the years to enhance the security of its customers’ cargo in transit and at each of its 15 domestic facilities. Gate-security ground zero […]
November 26, 2010
Business
Security service package
Owner-operators can purchase a security package that includes cargo theft deterrence and advanced analytic functions to recover stolen freight in a nationally coordinated data-sharing system that delivers cargo theft information among theft victims, their insurers and law enforcement. CARGONET, www.cargonet.com, (888) 595-2638
September 21, 2010
Channel 19
The case against locking the trailer; Sioux City salute
Cargo theft is on the rise, we report this month in Truckers News, and truckers using rear adjustable bar locks on their vans may be an ever-more-frequent reality. But for every argument there’s an at least somewhat valid counterargument, and one hauler’s unfortunate truck fire on I-70 in Indiana near Terre Haute points to the, […]
September 20, 2010
Channel 19
Stand-up treadmill desk begs question…; cargo theft connection to Jason’s Law?
In the P.R. copy blasted out with announcements about the new TrekDesk Treadmill Desk, the company talks about the dangers of the “sedentary lifestyle,” noting studies of various characters that have probed “rising obesity rates and ill health caused by ‘Sitting Disease’ (a term given to the multitude of syndromes and diseases caused by sedentary […]
September 2, 2010
Channel 19
Reporting cargo theft — balancing act in more ways than one…
Tune in Wednesday at 8 p.m. Eastern for the Truth About Trucking online radio program with host Allen Smith. My fellow Truckers News/Overdrive Senior Editor Max Kvidera and I will be guests on the subject of cargo theft, the topic of note in the latest, September edition of Truckers News, out now in digital format and […]
August 30, 2010
Business
Editors to discuss cargo theft
Truckers News editors will talk on Allen Smith’s “Truck About Trucking” show online Sept. 1 at 8 p.m. Eastern time.
August 25, 2010
Channel 19
12 big legs on 18 wheels
Cargo thieves in Quebec didn’t waste much time dumping a truck and trailer they lifted while in transit to an Ontario zoo June 18. Just 25 miles from where the rig was stolen, the trailer was spotted. The truck was found a few miles down the road. Ron Petrie creatively reconstructed the scene in the […]
August 6, 2010
Business
LogBook
The FMCSA changes hours policy, Obama orders heavy-truck fuel standards, an owner-operator recognition program and much more are featured.
July 1, 2010
Business
Stolen pharmaceutical truckload recovered
With a tracking device embedded, FreightWatch International recovered the truckload on I-81 in Tennessee June 25.
June 28, 2010
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