TRUCK ROBBERIES * Mexico: Soared 1000% in 10 years
* Mexico City - Criminal gangs move faster than Ferromex
--- Robbing trucks and trains has seen an alarming increase over the last 10 years, reaching the point where an estimated 20 train thefts take place every day...According to the chairman of the transport commission of the Chamber of Deputies, the theft of tractor-trailers and their cargo has increased by 100% during the last 10 years, while that of trains has soared by over 1000%... “Everybody [in these industries] knows they’ll get robbed, so they don’t file complaints. The criminals are convinced that, even if they’re caught, they’ll be released soon after. This is a legal weakness,”said Alfredo Rodríguez Ávila, a lawmaker... In the case of transport trucks, statistics “aren’t reliable because the Federal Police force lacks the infrastructure to maintain a reliable registry of truck or cargo thefts.” ... For Canacar, Mexico’snational trucking association, there needs to be legislation designating the thefts as federal crimes because it sees the issue as a problem of national security... (Photo: Thieves target Coke again in Chilpancingo. 5 trucks stolen since company resumed deliveries) -- Mexico City, MEX - Mexico News Daily - July 12, 2016
* California - Cars are the real danger on U.S. highways
(Getty Images - Trucks at the Port of Long Beach, Calif) Los Angeles,CAL,USA -MarketWatch, by Jim Jelter -10 June 2014:-- The deadly pileup on the New Jersey Turnpike this past weekend that critically injured comedian Tracy Morgan was a grim reminder of the dangers motorists face when sharing the road with big rigs, especially in the hands of drowsy drivers...Among truckers’ greatest nightmares are cars traveling alongside them in their blind spots, oblivious to the fact that truckers’ peripheral vision is severely limited... Another harrowing experience every trucker knows all too well is being cut off by a passenger car, whose driver has no clue that, at freeways speeds, a 40-ton rig needs about 200 more feet to stop than does a 2-ton sedan...So who’s afraid of whom? ... As for those who might advocate taking trucks off the road to make travel safer for all, consider this: According to the latest DOT survey, trucks carry about 70% of the country’s freight, measured by weight, and nearly 74% measured by commercial value. Changing this would require a massive revamping of the nation’s infrastructure. Given that the United States struggles to maintain existing roadways, this probably isn’t going to happen any time soon...
* Minnesota - Trailer truck takes an icy plunge MINN,USA
-FleetOwner/Video from Reuters.com -April 06, 2012: -- A Target trailer truck slides off a Minnesota highway into an icy pond.....
DANGEROUS INDUSTRY * Pakisltan - Truckers unite, threaten strike
Transporters, still angry about the losses they sustained in the rioting, have formed their own action committee
Karachi,Pakistan -The Daily Times, by Irfan Aligi -10 Jan 2008: --... As they say the government is not helping them...The action committee would comprise theOil Tankers Association, Reti Bajri Dumpers Association, Sindh Goods Truck, Trailer Owners Association, National Front Goods Association, Pakistan Transport Federation, All Pakistan Goods Transporters Welfare Associationamong others...Sindh Goods Truck,Trailer Owners Association presidentAlhaj Malik Ahmed Khantold that the governor should do something to help them.He should issue directives for intensive patrolling on the Super Highway, Northern Bypass, Indus Highway and National Highway and set up police or rangers check posts...Theassociation’s Abdul Rahim Shahtold that political parties wanted to use the riots and transporters’ issue as pressure tactics.There are already several crises such as the flour, water shortage, power outage, law and order and suicide bombing problems, the country doesn’t need any more trouble.The transporters believe that they were targeted and ruined so that the transportation of goods throughout the country came to a halt... (Video from YouTube, by RichParkie -August 04, 2007: "Police escort in Pakistan" - We rode our motorcycle through Pakistan on our journey from London to New Zealand and were given an escort through areas the police deemed unsafe due to bandits.Police would try to run other vehicles off the road, but might is right and the truck is king...)
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