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Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget. I've got to guess that the actual i
by adanto6840 10y ago
Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget. I've got to guess that the actual impact to the industry and, more importantly, to the industry's insurance companies is just not large enough to warrant such an effort/cost.
I mean we're talking about physical goods here, in relatively large quantities, that are moving about at relatively slow speeds -- seemingly within very trackable regions. I understand "going after the big boss" -- but, at some point, it seems like stopping the issue "on the ground" may be the better & more effective way to curtail the issue.
It really just sounds like the free market (read: the producers, transporters, and [mostly] the insurers) don't deem the issue worthy of the expense to curtail it.
- logicallee 10y ago>Seems like something you could put a stop to very quickly with the use of some tracking technology & a medium-sized budget. yes, it's true, any office with a handful of experienced engineers should be able to put together a GPS food tracker using a budget of only $100,000 and in just six months... in 1997. Today, any hobbyist can assemble one for $100 in marked-up hobbyist parts and in an afternoon, or, if that's too much work, buy one for $30 that works out of the box.
- bluesign 10y agoOr put one cheap android phone, and track
- pavel_lishin 10y agoAnd a sim card. And a power supply. And remember to keep topping up that sim card.
- cauterized 10y agoOk, now what's the margin on a pallet of apples? What's the R&D cost that the tech firm has to recover? How about the costs involved in the labor to attach and recover the devices on every single pallet of apples that doesn't get stolen... or to track them, or the cost of the ongoing contract with the tech firm, or the tech firm's profit margin? And where are you going to put your GPS device such that the thieves won't immediately discard or disable it anyway?
- segmondy 10y agoWhat are you going to track? the actual food? Lot's of drivers own and drive their own trucks.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoYou could add fake tracker-potatoes to potato truckloads. But those could also be scanned for and discarded by a dedicated thief.