TeamLift
Well-Known Member
Just before peak some at our hub witnessed a driver who we all knew and liked being taken down by a swat team of unmarked police cars as soon as he left the hub one morning. He was told to get out of his van, handcuffs were placed on him, the van was searched and he was taken to jail. The reason, stealing computers and a lot of them. He would come in early, take a look and all the packages on either side of him and when he saw the word Dell he promptly placed the item in his van. Notice he never did this with Dell stuff in his pile, just on someone else's.
All told he got between 10 and 15 computers and monitors. At first it was easy to get away with this, a driver next to him would end up with a package one his scanner that he didn't have and then a supervisor would delete it. If he had stopped with just a few he might have gotten away with it, but when 10 or more customers call and say they tracked their PC to our hub but never got it, the powers in the office started looking into it. I would imagine they looked at camera tapes and saw him put the stuff in his truck, then notified Police and told them when he was leaving the station. Unmarked cars were at every exit and both ends of the road that he might leave out on so he had no chance.. This is becoming more commonplace , as I write this we just lost another driver who his contractor walked him out the door just the other morning. If only our wages were like UPS, but then again I see videos of them stealing our packages at the door of a customer so it has more to do then not making enough money. Some are willing to risk it all just to get something for free.
All told he got between 10 and 15 computers and monitors. At first it was easy to get away with this, a driver next to him would end up with a package one his scanner that he didn't have and then a supervisor would delete it. If he had stopped with just a few he might have gotten away with it, but when 10 or more customers call and say they tracked their PC to our hub but never got it, the powers in the office started looking into it. I would imagine they looked at camera tapes and saw him put the stuff in his truck, then notified Police and told them when he was leaving the station. Unmarked cars were at every exit and both ends of the road that he might leave out on so he had no chance.. This is becoming more commonplace , as I write this we just lost another driver who his contractor walked him out the door just the other morning. If only our wages were like UPS, but then again I see videos of them stealing our packages at the door of a customer so it has more to do then not making enough money. Some are willing to risk it all just to get something for free.
