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> Ultimately, Parker’s bigger contribution to stopping nut theft had little to do with police work: in the wake of the Crain theft, he began training Tehama C
by OrangeMango 7y ago
> Ultimately, Parker’s bigger contribution to stopping nut theft had little to do with police work: in the wake of the Crain theft, he began training Tehama County nut processors in basic security precautions, and there have been no fictitious pickups there since 2013, despite increased problems elsewhere in the state.
The big takeaway. Make yourself a little harder to steal from, and nobody will bother, because everyone else is still terrible.
- MisterTea 7y agoIndeed. Another tidbit is this: Inventing a fake trucking company is easy, he said, as is impersonating a legitimate one. The only people in the shipping industry responsible for verifying truckers are brokers, who connect customers with trucking companies. Wadhwani looked into vetting practices at a major brokerage several years ago and asked the company to describe its process. An employee said, “We ask the trucking company to send documents, we pick them up off the fax, and we file them away. We don’t look at them, we don’t read them.” So it seems the industry is very lackadaisical as a whole in terms of security practices. Vetting people costs money.