{"id":604,"date":"2010-02-03T12:31:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T20:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2013-03-15T11:10:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:10:03","slug":"semi-truck-cargo-theft-is-now-a-nationwide-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/604\/semi-truck-cargo-theft-is-now-a-nationwide-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi Truck Cargo Theft Is Now A Nationwide Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial truckers say that theft of their cargo is becoming a big problem. Experts saw a huge spike in semi truck cargo thefts in 2009. Most of the thefts that have been reported occur when the truck driver stops for a bite to eat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWATCH VIDEO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/www.khq.com\/global\/video\/videoplayer.js?rnd=499027;hostDomain=www.khq.com;playerWidth=480;playerHeight=350;isShowIcon=true;clipId=4507758;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=null;enableAds=false;landingPage=null;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript'><\/script><\/p>\n<p>KHQ.com in Spokane WA reports:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year, close to 500 million dollars of goods were stolen from truckers in the U.S. That&#8217;s a 67 percent increase over the 290 million from 2008. Thieves stole 859 truckloads last year alone.<\/p>\n<p>The items that appear to be at high risk are electronic or pharmaceutucal goods because they can be easily sold to consumers. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Truckers have been warned by their companies to stay away from certain states because the risk of a heist is too high. High risk states include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/Georgia.shtml\">Georgia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/Southeastern-Texas.shtml\">Texas<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/Southern-Florida.shtml\">Florida<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trucker drivers also say they&#8217;re coming up with more ways to protect themselves and their cargo.<\/p>\n<p>Tractor-trailer driver Angela Middleton gives an example of ways truckers are trying to prevent thefts. &#8220;A friend of mine actually has a chain that he will strap through his door handles and locks it where there&#8217;s just little room left on his side to close it, so if they try to open the door they can&#8217;t even get it all the way open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thefts may be related to a down economy, but others could be because of plain carelessness, as drivers leave their rigs unlocked.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commercial truckers say that theft of their cargo is becoming a big problem. Experts saw a huge spike in semi truck cargo thefts in 2009. Most of the thefts that have been reported occur when the truck driver stops for a bite to eat. WATCH VIDEO KHQ.com in Spokane WA reports: &#8220;Last year, close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,86,5,76],"tags":[87,88],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida-truck-accidents","category-georgia-truck-accidents","category-texas-truck-accidents","category-washington-truck-accidents","tag-cargo-truck-theft","tag-stolen-truck-cargo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7583,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/7583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.truckaccidentlaw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}