CRIME Companies Now Warning Delivery Drivers to Bypass Certain City Routes

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Barry Natchitoches

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I am sorry - my ancient phone does not have the ability to post links to You Tube videos.

But the video I just found is one lots of you would like to see.

It is a 17 minute video posted by a black over the road truck driver.

Apparantly, alot of truck companies are now warning their drivers not to stop in Memphis - and a few other predominantly black cities - because of so many truck break ins.

IN ONE NIGHT ALONE - AT JUST ONE TRUCK STOP (the Loves truck stop in the southern part of Memphis, TN) — ten 18 wheeler trucks were broken into and robbed of their contents in the middle of the night.

Memphis police reports documented a number of other truck breakins during the last few weeks as well.

There are so many truck break ins in Memphis now that the companies are warning their drivers not to stop in the city unless they have no other choixe.

What is more remarkable about this video is how this black truck driver notes that there is an undercurrent in the black community not to talk openly about this problem - or do something to stop the break ins - because the perpetrators are black.

He notrs how the black community in Memphis and elsewhere is harmed really bad by these breakins, yet remain silent because it is black folksdoing the break in.

It is an eye opening video (though maybe not as much to this crowd, as we stay on top of situations like this).

This guy is not mincing any words. He is telling it the way it is…

Can somebody fetch the link and bring it over here?
 
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Publius

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Seen one of these videos yesterday and I can see most if not all deliveries to a big city is stopped altogether because of this problem and it will take a few days before the government there realize they have a really big problem on their hands and they will have to deal with it with brute force to correct the problem.
 
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Ramius

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I drove OTR (Over the Road) from the late 1970's to around 1993. Being in North Carolina, much of the time we hauled cigarettes to places like New York City, or Houston or San Antonio Texas. It was a helluva good way to get killed even then, and I could tell a few stories of those times. And that was back in a completely different time. Today? I'd be afraid to go into some- most- of those cities in an armored SUV. God bless the drivers that 'get it delivered' these days. But I can certainly see a day coming very soon where armed escorts will be required to keep some city folks supplied.

Personally, I plan on staying in the sticks where I am now, and avoiding cities at all costs.
 
Bps1691

Bps1691

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Publius said:
Seen one of these videos yesterday and I can see most if not all deliveries to a big city is stopped altogether because of this problem and it will take a few days before the government there realize they have a really big problem on their hands and they will have to deal with it with brute force to correct the problem.
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“ I can see most if not all deliveries to a big city is stopped altogether because of this problem and it will take a few days before the government there realize they have a really big problem on their hands and they will have to deal with it with brute force to correct the problem.”

LA has had a major problem of the protected class breaking into rail cars and cleaning out the good stuff and dumping the rest for some time now.

They haven’t done anything to slow them down nor will any of the leftist cesspools.

. Here’s just one example following:

www.latimes.com

'It's ugly out there': Rail thefts leave tracks littered with pilfered packages

Thieves pilfering railroad cars is a crime that harks back to the days of horseback-riding bandits, but is fueled by a host of modern realities including homeless encampments and e-commerce.
www.latimes.com www.latimes.com
 
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Publius

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Millwright said:
BOOM!

It took about 13.6473 seconds to find with good info.


(18min)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEkCPSNNhm0
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This guy ^^ thinks the government needs to allow law enforcement to kill these thief's on sight not joking watch the video.
This video is different from the one I looked at yesterday and from a different driver and he was showing the crooks standing around want access to the inside of his truck to take what he has.
 
Knoxville's Joker

Knoxville's Joker

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Ramius said:
I drove OTR (Over the Road) from the late 1970's to around 1993. Being in North Carolina, much of the time we hauled cigarettes to places like New York City, or Houston or San Antonio Texas. It was a helluva good way to get killed even then, and I could tell a few stories of those times. And that was back in a completely different time. Today? I'd be afraid to go into some- most- of those cities in an armored SUV. God bless the drivers that 'get it delivered' these days. But I can certainly see a day coming very soon where armed escorts will be required to keep some city folks supplied.

Personally, I plan on staying in the sticks where I am now, and avoiding cities at all costs.
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What will happen is the OTR trucks will start having automated armaments required as a condition of delivery and full immunity for ghetto kills.
 
psychgirl

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DFENZ said:
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Well that’s interesting…..the truck stop shown in Indiana at the bottom out in greenfield?
DH and I ran out of gas Thanksgiving night a few years ago on our way home from my sisters house ( yeah, don’t ask; “new to him” truck with improper fuel gas gauge )….we BARELY made it to that Pilot truck stop after my Bil met us out in the country with his gas can….
Good Lord it was a scary, close call!

But that place was booming! Even at midnight on Thanksgiving!

I gotta admit feeling like it wasn’t somewhere I wanted us to hang out in too long
 
Illini Warrior

Illini Warrior

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psychgirl said:
Well that’s interesting…..the truck stop shown in Indiana at the bottom out in greenfield?
DH and I ran out of gas Thanksgiving night a few years ago on our way home from my sisters house ( yeah, don’t ask; “new to him” truck with improper fuel gas gauge )….we BARELY made it to that Pilot truck stop after my Bil met us out in the country with his gas can….
Good Lord it was a scary, close call!

But that place was booming! Even at midnight on Thanksgiving!

I gotta admit feeling like it wasn’t somewhere I wanted us to hang out in too long
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I looked over that listing for the Upper Midwest states - most are just common sense - saw that Greenfield location - I'd only question staying overnight - not anything daytime >>> the remainder I saw were spot-on bad azz death traps ....

the one location in Gary has to be the worst truckstop set-up in North America - no traffic protected exit - left turn across 3 lanes of traffic to get back to I80 ramps >>> if the traffic wasn't bad I'd stop and give a couple of semi the chance for a free Frogger crossing - sometime another car would also stop and traffic was blocked long enough to empty the exit backup - some of those last trucks had a running start and came roaring out at 40mph
 
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psychgirl

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Illini Warrior said:
I looked over that listing for the Upper Midwest states - most are just common sense - saw that Greenfield location - I'd only question staying overnight - not anything daytime >>> the remainder I saw were spot-on bad azz death traps ....

the one location in Gary has to be the worst truckstop set-up in North America - no traffic protected exit - left turn across 3 lanes of traffic to get back to I80 ramps >>> if the traffic wasn't bad I'd stop and give a couple of semi the chance for a free Frogger crossing - sometime another car would also stop and traffic was blocked long enough to empty the exit backup - some of those last trucks had a running start and came roaring out at 40mph
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Gary is very very bad.
I’d NEVER go there!
 
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Ramius

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Knoxville's Joker said:
What will happen is the OTR trucks will start having automated armaments required as a condition of delivery and full immunity for ghetto kills.
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I'll tell one story and then I'll shut up. "Back in the day" I was working for a trucking company that delivered RJR smokes to Hunt's Point, New York City. My first trip up there, I learned the company only sent smokes with at least 2 trucks running together. RJR sealed the trailers with a heavy steel cable, with a large lead seal crimped on it- very distinctive, and very obvious. Everybody knew what you had, and even back then, a 48 foot box load of smokes was worth around $1.5 million up there due to the very high taxes on smokes in NYC. People will kill you for that kind of money.

The lead driver (in the lead truck) Told me that once we exited from the interstate, we DID NOT STOP FOR ANYTHING. Not red lights, not people pulling out in front of the truck, not naked women in fur coats (yes, that happened- more than once- if you stopped for her, you were going to get yanked out of the truck and if lucky, walk home.)

As you exited the interstate, you got on the CB can called the warehouse, which looked more like a prison than a warehouse, and as you approached they'd open the gates as you got close, and you drove in and the closed 'em behind you. Mind you, this was all in 1979 to 1985 or so for me.

I thought at the time, and still think, the best solution to the problem would be to just cut off all deliveries to such places until which time the 'elected leaders' got their collective heads out of their rectums, but I know that's never going to happen.

I do know that I'm not going up there ever again, and never visiting any place that does not recognize my NC CCW permit. Sad, that- I'd love to go to DC and see the Smithsonian again, and a few other places. But not in the current state of the world.

Ok, I'll go back to my corner and be quiet again.
 
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Walrus

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Ramius said:
I drove OTR (Over the Road) from the late 1970's to around 1993. Being in North Carolina, much of the time we hauled cigarettes to places like New York City, or Houston or San Antonio Texas. It was a helluva good way to get killed even then, and I could tell a few stories of those times. And that was back in a completely different time. Today? I'd be afraid to go into some- most- of those cities in an armored SUV. God bless the drivers that 'get it delivered' these days. But I can certainly see a day coming very soon where armed escorts will be required to keep some city folks supplied.

Personally, I plan on staying in the sticks where I am now, and avoiding cities at all costs.
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You've put in your time in those zones. Good choice to stay out of them if you can.
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
psychgirl said:
Gary is very very bad.
I’d NEVER go there!
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I've stopped there, back when I was doing shows. Had to get gas, no other choice because I was towing my trailor. I had a .40 on my left side, and a .45 on my right side, opened carried in that you could see them mostly under my not so long tee shirt, and no one said boo to me! My contract employee followed me very closely when we went in to use the restroom and get some fresh snacks... and this was around 1am... she was scared to death. Every time we did a show, when we'd hit the road the first question she always asked was "you got your guns?" Her husband tried to get her to carry but she flat out refused. I kept a mossberg 500 with the defender stock in the back seat of my truck filled with 2.5 inch slugs, at least she wasn't afraid of a shotgun.
 
psychgirl

psychgirl

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packyderms_wife said:
I've stopped there, back when I was doing shows. Had to get gas, no other choice because I was towing my trailor. I had a .40 on my left side, and a .45 on my right side, opened carried in that you could see them mostly under my not so long tee shirt, and no one said boo to me! My contract employee followed me very closely when we went in to use the restroom and get some fresh snacks... and this was around 1am... she was scared to death. Every time we did a show, when we'd hit the road the first question she always asked was "you got your guns?" Her husband tried to get her to carry but she flat out refused. I kept a mossberg 500 with the defender stock in the back seat of my truck filled with 2.5 inch slugs, at least she wasn't afraid of a shotgun.
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Good idea to carry heavy up there. It’s not pretty getting caught with “your panties down”, not in Gary!!
 
packyderms_wife

packyderms_wife

Neither here nor there.
psychgirl said:
Good idea to carry heavy up there. It’s not pretty getting caught with “your panties down”, not in Gary!!
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I carry heavy every time I'm out of the central Iowa area, as in two or more hours from home, you just never know what's going to happen. I've been carrying heavy ever since Tammy Zewickie (Sp?) went missing back in the 90's. First thing my dad did when I came home from Iowa for xmas break, and drove back home, and this was months after she disappeared, he handed me a .45 and a couple of extra magazines, put a 12 gauge with xtra ammo behind the seat of my F150, and sent me on my way back to college. Seven and a half hour drive one way, you see lots of things. I also kept an extra sharp hatchet under my seat, just in case, and a large fixed blade knife in my glove box.
 
rob0126

rob0126

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Barry Natchitoches said:
He noted how the black community in Memphis and elsewhere is harmed really bad by these breakins, yet remain silent because it is black folks doing the break in.
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Sounds like racism to me.

Ramius said:
I drove OTR (Over the Road) from the late 1970's to around 1993. Being in North Carolina, much of the time we hauled cigarettes to places like New York City, or Houston or San Antonio Texas. It was a helluva good way to get killed even then, and I could tell a few stories of those times. And that was back in a completely different time. Today? I'd be afraid to go into some- most- of those cities in an armored SUV. God bless the drivers that 'get it delivered' these days. But I can certainly see a day coming very soon where armed escorts will be required to keep some city folks supplied.

Personally, I plan on staying in the sticks where I am now, and avoiding cities at all costs.
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Never been to hunts point and never cared to. The Pepsi in Queens was enough for me.
(mild, comparatively)

Delivered to a place at 3am in the morning in downtown NY. That will make your hair stand up on the back of your neck.

Illini Warrior said:
the one location in Gary has to be the worst truckstop set-up in North America - no traffic protected exit - left turn across 3 lanes of traffic to get back to I80 ramps >>> if the traffic wasn't bad I'd stop and give a couple of semi the chance for a free Frogger crossing - sometime another car would also stop and traffic was blocked long enough to empty the exit backup - some of those last trucks had a running start and came roaring out at 40mph
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Agreed. The Gary, IN TA is not a place to hang out.
But pretty much anywhere near Chicago is a no go zone.

The place that made me nervous to stay overnight at was outside a fenced in business, in a neighborhood inside the perimeter of Miami, FL. Didn't get much sleep that night.

Walrus said:
You've put in your time in those zones. Good choice to stay out of them if you can.
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I use to say that truck driving was similar in duty to serving in the military.
(A thankless job but a necessary one.)

packyderms_wife said:
I carry heavy every time I'm out of the central Iowa area, as in two or more hours from home, you just never know what's going to happen. I've been carrying heavy ever since Tammy Zewickie (Sp?) went missing back in the 90's. First thing my dad did when I came home from Iowa for xmas break, and drove back home, and this was months after she disappeared, he handed me a .45 and a couple of extra magazines, put a 12 gauge with xtra ammo behind the seat of my F150, and sent me on my way back to college. Seven and a half hour drive one way, you see lots of things. I also kept an extra sharp hatchet under my seat, just in case, and a large fixed blade knife in my glove box.
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Years ago, we started carrying a Louisville Slugger in the car, a SOG Pup in the console, and a pistol in the glove box.

Now, because of the invasion, we might need to start carrying rifles. If I didn't have to buy so many supplements to combat LC, I'd probably have a nice AK by now.
 
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desertvet2

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Blade, pistol,shotty, rifle....mortars, artillery, air support...and mines in the mix where needed.

Resupply chain.
 
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Just Plain Mom

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I am told this is a list from Bath, Bed & Beyond, for high value loads.

Son's company has a list that is much longer. Part of training and then follow-up training, trainers' training (to pass on to trainees) is info from their security department. They insist that each load (regardless of value) be locked, and explained that many trucks that are broken into are ones that do not lock. It's not a legal requirement aside from if the shipper requires it.

Just for interest's sake, there are other requirements (that differ per company) for high-value loads. No stopping within 200 miles of shipper or receiver, "we may have security following you," and special qualifications for the driver are common. Son once took a Pharma load where several employees came out, inspected the truck, loaded, more inspections, tons of photos including of driver and trainee (who was alseep, and they insisted he wake up) and then they video'd them leaving. The "crowd" of employees asked a million questions, including some that were personal. He said it was bizarre.

This is not to negate the original post or this thread. Maybe, more to illustrate how complex life has become.
 
kyrsyan

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Just Plain Mom said:
I am told this is a list from Bath, Bed & Beyond, for high value loads.

Son's company has a list that is much longer. Part of training and then follow-up training, trainers' training (to pass on to trainees) is info from their security department. They insist that each load (regardless of value) be locked, and explained that many trucks that are broken into are ones that do not lock. It's not a legal requirement aside from if the shipper requires it.

Just for interest's sake, there are other requirements (that differ per company) for high-value loads. No stopping within 200 miles of shipper or receiver, "we may have security following you," and special qualifications for the driver are common. Son once took a Pharma load where several employees came out, inspected the truck, loaded, more inspections, tons of photos including of driver and trainee (who was alseep, and they insisted he wake up) and then they video'd them leaving. The "crowd" of employees asked a million questions, including some that were personal. He said it was bizarre.

This is not to negate the original post or this thread. Maybe, more to illustrate how complex life has become.
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I have a friend that is a private driver. I share whatever information I get with him because frequently the private drivers don't get that information. But he also doesn't do shipments from normal stores. He does the "oddball" ones that people have problems getting done.
 
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