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The Gardai and Army already escort Cash-in-transit trucks, because their contents (cash) is attractive to thiefs.

With the increasing cost of oil, how far away is the day when Oil Deilivery Trucks, travelling from a refinery to a forecourt require and escort? An organised gange wouldn’t even need access to delivery timetables, they could follow a truck in a 4WD one vehicle could pass it, which would be normal as trucks are slow moving traffic, and then brake while the following vehicle boxes the escape. The tanker would likely have a GPS receiver sending coordinates to a base every few seconds via GPRS, so a GSM blocker would be ideal while the truck is moved to a empty private tanker elsewhere for transferral of contents.

A tanker truck can hold about 36,000 liters of liquid petroleum. Readers are well aware of the price of fuel per litre and can do the multiplication. What if imagine if the price was higher, and higher again.

It would be hard for a thief to use this amount of fuel of course, unless they stole diesel and used it in a haulage business. Continue reading ‘Armed Escorts for Oil Tanker Trucks?’