Bandit Epidemic

Posted on 20-08-2007

If you saw this headline, where would you assume the article originated?

Bandits an ‘epidemic’ for truckers
“It’s become quite a problem. The biggest problem is when drivers are running up and down the road they’re talking on the CB, saying what they’re hauling. “They’re talking when they shouldn’t be talking.”

Comments

Chris Floyd on 21 August, 2007 at 4:32 am #

I think for all our big macho trucks we still live a sheltered life in Australia in some respects.
When I used to cart fuel it seemed odd that no one approached me delivering a semi load of petrol to a darkened station in the middle of the night. The only incident I heard of the driver discouraged a guy with a crack on the shin with a ‘tyre buddy’, but dying over a truck load of chickens?!

Thefts occur, but not enough to teach “loose lips sink ships” in driver training & there are plenty of trucks on our roads that expose what they’re carrying for all the world to see. Thats something to be said for strict gun control too.

When I drove for a waste transport company all the trucks had satellite tracking for improved logistics. If truck hijacking is such a problem in the America’s its a wonder the larger companies don’t have something similar with a panic button. It is also common for trucks here to have mobile phones hard wired inside the cabin.

P.s. Wayne, could you email me please so I can reply some queeries about publishing my blog?

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