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Some common tactics used by Mick thieves
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Jump-ons
The truck is followed by another vehicle. At traffic lights one thief jumps onto the back of the truck and breaks the security seal on the roll door.
As the truck moves, inertia throws part of the load out onto the road where the following vehicle collects it. The next time the truck slows, the thief jumps off and drives away.
Protection: Use heavy padlocks.
Bogus drivers
Men turn up at busy transport off ices with false papers claiming to be booked agency drivers.
If challenged, they blame the agency and leave If given keys, they take the truck and load and are gone.
Protection: Ask agencies for booking numbers the drivers can confirm.
Round-the-corners and diversions
1. Drivers are flagged down or phoned and told to wait -round the corner" from the depot or RDC as it is busy. Once Isolated and stopped the driver and load are vulnerable.
2. Bogus customers ring the driver to change the delivery address and thieves take the collection.
Protection: Driver instructions should only ever be issued by phone from the transport office. Any others should be verified with the transport office before they are followed.
Flag-downs
Thieves pose as police or vehicle examiners and instruct the driver to stop. Protection: Keep the doors locked until authenticity is checked. Genuine officers will never mind a driver verifying their details with the operator's traffic office or a local police station.
A 'vulnerable load' card (available from the RHA) in the windscreen can explain the firm's policy on vehicle access.
Defective goods
Following a phone call, a thief turns up with a docket claiming to be a driver re-collecting wrongly delivered or defective goods.
Protection: Always verify the delivery's exact status with the customer in writing or by e-mail.
Enticements to stop
Thieves use all kinds of gambits including flashing lights and waving a number plate implying it has come off your vehicle. Protection: Ignore them. Don't stop for anyone but uniformed police officers.