* New Jersey - CargoNet Reports 1,500 commercial cargo and vehicle thefts in 2015
-- CargoNet received reports of more than 1,500 incidents of stolen commercial-vehicle cargo or equipment in the United States and Canada during 2015, the theft prevention and recovery network said... Cargo theft accounted for 58% of the reports, or 881 incidents, said CargoNet, a division of Verisk Analytics. That was up from 844 reports of cargo theft in 2014, the network said... The remaining 619 reports involved stolen heavy commercial vehicles — a truck, trailer, chassis, container, box truck that does not contain cargo or identity theft of trucking companies, the company said... “We can estimate the value of stolen cargo in all 881 incidents to be $175.3 million,” a statement form Jersey City, New Jersey-based CargoNet said... Theft of food or beverages accounted for 28% of the cargo theft incidents... Also, the group received reports of 10 cargo thefts worth more than $1 million each. California was the cargo crime capital, reporting 158 thefts and $18.7 million in losses... Thieves were most active over weekends and on Monday evenings, CargoNet said... The least amount of theft, 9%, occurred on Wednesdays...
(Photo: Cargo theft) -- Jersey City, NJ, USA - Transport Topics - 26 Jan 2016 Labels: cargo theft, trucks theft
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