Heavy haul professionals will be glad to hear that a full truckload of pharmaceutical products stolen from a truck stop along the I-81 at 9 p.m. in Glade Springs, Virginia were recovered by the security provider for the load FreightWatch International on the I-81 in Tennessee on June 25. Apparently, the truck and load was stolen while the two man team driving the long haul rig in question were having dinner in a restaurant close by, while the thieves were busy stealing their truck and its freight load of valuable pharmaceutical products. The drivers must have been surprised to find their freight shipping vehicle missing when they came back from dinner, but apparently they had little to worry about as the truck was apparently quickly recovered.
Sources indicate that the truckload of pharmaceuticals had a tracking device embedded in the load that allowed FreightWatch to track and pinpoint the location of the load and truck. All FreightWatch had to do was contact the local police, who found the truck and its load waiting at a truck stop along the I-81 in Tennessee. FreightWatch indicated that the company had helped recover tens of millions of dollars in stolen pharmaceutical freight over the past few years. That tracking devices like the one used in this instance were only part of their layered security solutions their customers implement in order to prevent theft of pharmaceutical freight and recover it once stolen.
This is great news for the drivers and trucking company they work for, but it’s particularly important for people that might unknowingly end up using these pharmaceuticals once stolen. Hopefully, the investigation leads to an arrest and they find the individuals responsible for the theft, before they strike again. The next time they might find the tracking device and remove it from the freight load or find away to shield it from detectors, which is always possible once they know the tracking devices are being used.