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hello all u new and old drivers. just a little note to remind all of u drivers to always lock your trl doors even if u r empty. to many things can happen . if u still have a parcial load on anyone can open your doors and take what ever they want out.
if u r empty some will still open up your trl doors and snoop its no one buissness whats in your tlr but u and your dispatcher
dont be afriad to stand your ground if u think u r in the right dont let them bully u around
use tack about it be nice and if u r wrong have them explain it to u so u know
........ just a reminder to all .....have a great day

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...and don't trust a security guard to close them properly, either! I always check my trailer before getting back out on the road - loaded or empty. Just makes sense.
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A locked trailer door. Is what many thiefs driving down the road are looking for trucks. To hit are looking for locked doors.
Many have put up with the money hauling stories. You know they escort you. Put a guy with a fully automatic gun in the jump seat. You do not have to stop at the scales. and so on.
Funny thing is. THEY DO NOT EVEN SEAL THEY TRAILERS.
Haul methadone. Hobart New York to a packaging plant. They tell you in writting. Do not lock or seal the door. Park in a well lite area. Do not leave truck unattended. Make every attempt to look like you are on your way to pick up a load.
Also, Locks do not prevent real truck load theft. They do prevent the snooping eyes. One has to be ready to fight to death to even thing about opening a trailer door on a truck with a well trained driver asleep in the cab. Many can easily hear the door open.
You have two types of theifs. The ones that did not plan on being a thief that night and they walk up on a great mark. Maybe they will get a free pack of Toilet papaer. The other is a well planed team. They have planed every aspect of getting the load. From the time the shipping cleark hooked them up.
Your lock will not help. They plan on taking the whole truck. 10 Bucks for bolt cutters at Big Lots. You lock is a joke anyway.
The pro thiefs. They are not looking for the computter load. The money, The drugs. They want the whole trailer of toilet paper. Easy to move hard to trace.5k today, 5k tomarrow it adds up better then 150k load a year in computters that have way to many ways to trace.202 N Main Street
Summerfield Il 62289
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Padlocks do nothing more than keep and honest person honest.

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On my last gig, i would deliver prescription drugs to McKesson's (are you familiar with them?) almost every day.
Almost every time at least one of the shrink wrapped pallets would be broken into!!! That means, somewhere along the line after being picked up, someone couldn't keep their hands off the "stuff."
Can you elaborate on this?

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Yes with a question. Did you find what you were looking for in the pallets?

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Judgeing by comments made previously ,apparently.
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That's ridiculous. Do you leave the door to your house unlocked when you leave for the day? Do you leave your cab unlocked when you go inside the truck stop for a shower and meal?
In any of these situations, nothing is 100% secure. A determined thief can break into a bank vault, but it doesn't mean having them is not worthwhile. Put locks on both trailer doors. Even if the trailer is empty, lock it. You don't want somebody putting things in, either.

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I would debate the issue on locks, but in my case...my employer requires it, and we have to use a lock provided by the company. Cutting them off takes a torch or one helluva lock cutter. Trailers are also required to be sealed. (Yes, I know, you will see our people who didn't lock their trailers...if caught they'll deal with it, not me.) At any rate...if our lock is cut off and the seal broken, it is 2 points of proof to the shipper, receiver, company, and insurance company that the theft was a result of "forced entry". Just like a lock on your car door, or the front door of your house is no guarantee that a thief can be kept out.
I put the lock on the trailer, and if the shipper doesn't provide a seal, I put one on the trailer. So, if anything happens enroute...I am better covered, and if the trailer is dropped at a receiver and is signed for "Seal Intact", or if the trailer is "relayed/repowered" and the seal is intact.....I have far less to worry about if anything happens.
I don't know if its a fact or not.....but I could swear I read an article in one of the trucking publications that CA passed a law requiring that all trailers have a lock on them, loaded or empty. Failure to comply could result in a fine. Funny thing is....I've been out to CA numerous times and seen lots of trailers without locks on the doors.
Me, I'd rather do it per the company's requirements, then face losing my job over a 10 second issue..........So I like what I do, you don't, too bad, get over it. Get on with your life, I am.

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California requires all trailers hauling HazMat to be locked. I haven't heard/read anything about all trailers (for what that's worth).

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makes sense to lock em to me... a locked trl, i would think, would be a turn off to most crooks... too much work involved... theyd rather find one that they didnt have to work for...

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Watched a guy get busted at the Flyin J in Knoxville for reportedly going into unlocked trailers, and stealing load locks.
Also listened to company drivers selling them right out of the back of their own trailers. What do they care..

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I have seen some real ugly scenes over the years from trailer doors opening on the road. I see a lot of city drivers going with them open around town.
One of the worst was a flatbed carring roofing shingles. I was behind a trailer comimg off an exit ramp with a tight turn. Watched half the load come loose on the turn. What a mess. You got to get out and check to make sure everything is still secure once in a while with a flat.

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The worse scene I ever saw was whena roadway driver did not lock his trailer doors and the came loose. The guy was parked and the wind caught a door and blew it opened. Right into the side of an oversized boat I had on. Nice 8" scrape on the side of my boat. Who know where it went I filed a report with dispatch and he did the Roiadway report. I dropped the boat off and the Port in baltimore that was the end of that. Can't figure out the logic in not locking the doors shut.

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Unless there is already a seal on the trailer, I always put a heavy duty padlock on. I guess you can say its common sence for me. We live in a post 9-11 world now and when you are a food hauler such as myself, you want to be aware of everything and take every precaution.
If someone wishes to break into my trailer, than be my guest. Im not risking my life over anything.