500K of Bourbon stolen.

[Jim L]

Somewhere the wrong truck came in to pick up this load. This is a perfect example of how the shipper should be 100% sure that they truck and trailer they are loading the goods on is the correct truck.

Aged to steal? Company says $500K worth of bourbon stolen from depot

The shipment of Noble Oak bourbon was stolen from a warehouse in what company officials described as a "coordinated cargo theft operation."

www.usatoday.com

 

[Nawk]

Somewhere the wrong truck came in to pick up this load. This is a perfect example of how the shipper should be 100% sure that they truck and trailer they are loading the goods on is the correct truck.

Aged to steal? Company says $500K worth of bourbon stolen from depot

The shipment of Noble Oak bourbon was stolen from a warehouse in what company officials described as a "coordinated cargo theft operation."

www.usatoday.com

Especially with such a high target item.

Check, check and double check.

 

[Igor Galanter]

Well, in this case only personal images of a driver could help, because perpetrators completely impersonate legit trucking company..
Sad, but true...

 

[Fr8Guru]

Would love to see the name of the broker on this one.

 

[loaders]

There was a very similar case reported by 60 Minutes a few months ago, involving 2 truckloads of high value tequila. I seem to remember the TV host Guy and musician Sammy Hagar were involved in this tequila distillery and Fieri was interviewed during the broadcast. As it turns out the freight broker used by the distillery hired a legitimate carrier for the move but that carrier rebrokered the load to someone else who it turns out, was a fake carrier. They even went so far as to reprogram the GPS signal to mask the actual location of the trailers. After a lengthy investigation one load of the tequila was uncovered, the other was never found. The name of the game in today’s environment is VIGILANCE.