Experienced Scrapper
So I was at Tommy Smothers house (The Smothers Brothers) cutting up an old flatbed truck my 3rd load from his house, and when I get home my **** trailer is gone people just grind off the vin and re register with dmv only had it for about a month payed for itself already. **** parasite thieves are everywhere I'm getting a new 18 ft car hauler, and a camera.
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And your neighbors didnt see or hear anything? What time of day? Sorry man hope they get flat tires every time they move it.
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I put a lock on mine, lock it closed, then i wrap the safety chains around the jack handle (fully raised) and put a lock on them too so it can't be turned, the latch lock stays on it even when I'm traveling
sorry about your trailer though mrvictor, that's bad news
Experienced Scrapper
it happened between 1-2 pm broad daylight. Neighbors didn't see anything/ not home. I have a lock too, but usually left it unlocked at my house because we live on a busy street I didn't think anyone would have the nerve to steal it from right in front of my house.
Metal Recycling Entrepreneur
Think like a thief. Honestly think about it the best way to go unnoticed is act like you belong there. Broad day light is when people are caught off gaurd. I know I have. My trailer is pink under and on top. That way its easily identified lol. ''Daughters idea''
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Oh I am so sorry to hear this mrvictor
Sorry to hear that....there are cheap tracking tools you can place on the trailer and when they hook the lights up it will update (using some power from the trailer lights) so if a trailer was ever stolen you have some time to get it back until they find the tracker.
Heck the probably even had a hard hat on a high vis vest to. Thiefs are going high tech now a days and can go wherever they want if they blend in and look like they belong. Sorry about the trailer. If there is an upside to it at least they didn't load it up with any scrap you had laying around. Not only would have they stole your money maker but they could have stolen your cash flow to. I really wish the good ole USA would get stricter with certain crimes like theft and some sexual crimes and start removing body parts kinda hard to steal if you don't have hands.
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I had a small claims action against a guy, around 10:00 am the guy tell the court clerk he's not feeling well so the judge let him go home, sat in court all day then at 4:30 the judge called my case motioning me into chambers.
From chambers called the dude up on the telephone to conduct my case, which incidentally had some favorable outcome but not 100% to my liking.
I said to the judge, your honor as you realize I've had the opportunity to sit in on your court most of the day, his reply Yes. I then told him that had I realized the courts were going to become so lenient I would have never given up a life of crime.
Too bad about your trailer, next time install a tracking device to protect your investment.
These tracking devices are effective, a couple of guys from my old home town had stolen a truck and camper the device lead the police to the location where the truck was hidden inside an old dairy barn long with thousands of dollars of other stolen goods not being tracked electronically.
I somehow doubt that you will have that kind of luck, finding your trailer parked in a barn alongside something tagged with a tracking device - but you never know you may still have a chance at recovering your trailer by some fluke of luck.
Some onetime criminals turned Entrepreneur have been very successful in making millions at an honest business of crime and theft prevention, I myself gave it a stab with a locking device to protect underground storage tanks at service stations from theft of fuel. All I'm going to say is that the oil companies think that they have a better mouse trap but their method of protecting their precious fuel can be easily circumvented.
Originally Posted by gustavus
I want to see the first guy go to the gas station with a cutting torch and try to steel the gas....
The tracking tools are cheap...there worth every penny and the best part....you know where your workers have been and for how long (make sure they stay honest).
Experienced Scrapper
the trailer wasn't loaded up with scrap, but it did have maybe $50-$100 worth of aluminum, stainless, and low grade copper wire, along with one of my 20 ft chains with hooks. I can go to my yard and they will give me a new chain with hooks. I got all of my chains from them so I didn't really lose anything there.
Get this as I was writing this post my worker calls me from his house in oakland ca about an hour away from me him and some sweedish girls were partying in s.f. last night he gets back to oak this morning, and both his roommates cat and his own got cut off their toyota trucks last night awesome day huh.
Last edited by mrvictor1; 05-20-2012 at 11:47 AM.
At first I thought you where talking about cat as in kitty cat...until I got to the Toyota part lol
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hope ya can et it back man , sorry
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Takes balls to do something like that in broad day light. We get that down here on my sandbar. Someone will pull up to a rental in a box truck, rob the sucker blind, then go on their merry way, of course, if someone does call the cops on them their screwed. Only two ways off my sandbar. LOL. Had some tweekers break into one of the yards down here an try an steal a trailer of metal..lol..they got busted an quick. Dumb ass tweekers.
Sorry for your loss tho buddy, hope ya had it insured. As the others say investing in one of those lojack/gps devices might be your answer for the future. Or catch the thief, shoot/hang'm and hope that is all the lesson the rest need.
Sirscrapalot - Not a fan of thiefs, or tweekers.
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I know it is barbaric, but I am thinking that it may be time to bring back the rule of chopping off the hand of a thief when caught.
I'll tell you what. If I were in a post appocalyptic world and belonged to a small tribe of people fighting for, and defending everything they had, I would not think twice about doing that or more to said thieves.
It may be admirable when you are playing dungeons and dragons to have a thief around, but in real life they need to be stopped. They are the reason for all of the laws that make things difficult on the regular honest Joe trying to make a living out there.
Hang 'em all!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Very sorry to hear about this. What tracking devices do some recommend? Around here there is only LoJack.
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I would also like to know what tracking devices are recommended from people who have used them.
Pre paid cell phone in a black box that has unlimited txting I have found is the best....simple to use and simple to set up and you can get the phones pretty much free....wiring them in is simple since you can cut up a dc car plug for the money and use that.
Easy I think you might have to much time on your hands. Brilliant idea someone buy this McGyver a Guinness.
Hey easy, didn't you have a trailer stolen awhile back?
Can you elaborate more on the cell phone idea. Would you be tracking the GPS that is on the phone? Or can you get the phone to contact you to determine it's whereabouts? I do like this idea though. Most of the trackers I have found require a monthly fee.
What happens when the thief doesn't hook up the lights because s/he doesn't have the right truck plug? Most of our trailers are 7 pin RV style. Not everyone runs that.
Knock on wood but we haven't had a trailer theft. We use locks, but I know they won't stop a determined person.
Here's the lock I use. It's junk. I am looking for something different.
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