I am betting this is some sort of an inside job. Who unhitches their truck cab for a while and leaves a refrigerated truck loaded with cheese in summer weather conditions? And then who would have a truck cab come by and just âhook upâ and drive off? Why, in this day and age, is there no GPS monitoring device on a shipment worth so many thousands of dollars? Sure, there are truck cabs with GPS, and truck cargo vans with GPS, just in case these things happen, itâs not that expensive to equip both cab and cargo with GPS, which works 24/7/365 while there is power available to it.
And what would one thief do with 20,000 pounds of cheese in Wisconsin if one didnât have a ready market to sell it ?
I think we havenât heard the last chapter in these cheesy story⌠an insider job.
trying to picture how someone would fence 20,000 lbs of cheeseâŚ
do they walk down the street in a long overcoat and whisper out of the corner of their mouth âpsst⌠hey buddy⌠wanna good deal on some cheddar?â
Somebody whoâs starving to death and wants to make a food run. Truckers do it all the time. ALL THE TIME. Iâll bet he was gone less than an hour. Moreover, the reefer is going to run until itâs either turned off or runs out of fuel. Summer weather has nothing to do with anything.
Many, many, many people. I saw a tractor once with a cutout in its fifth wheel so that it could be used to steal trailers equipped with king-pin locks. I called the cops. They said, âYeah, we know who he is and weâve been waiting (for him to steal a trailer).â
Many trailers are equipped with LoJack devices. Whether this one was or not wasnât mentioned. But like any electronic device it can be disabled.
Steal 20,000 pounds of macaroni? LOL
BTW: A $36K load is actually very, very small peanuts; 20,000 lbs. isnât even half a load. An average electronics load â which is infinitely easier to get rid of â can be worth upwards of $1M or more.
The mafia still exists. And truck hijacking/trailer theft has been and still is a major part of their business.
Must be Friday.
Maybe someone really had a bad case of the ârunsâ ?
Ahh âŚ" The ties that bind " â
World record fondue anyone?
Just hope they have good brakes if they happen to be going down a steep mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
My God! I hope none of those presumably unwitting thieves who thought it was a load of TVs was lactose intolerant.
I blame Walker, LOL.
I never knew half of this. Wow = thanks for the education on trucking.
I thought that was 30,000 lbs of bananasâŚ
Gives new meaning to the phrase, âwho cut the cheese?â
(nobody ever fesses up)
Itâs Wisconsin. What else are going to steal?
Check the Trump Tower.
Iâm still left askingâŚ
Why steal cheese?
Why steal this much cheese?
I mean, a really old and valuable wheel of Parmesan, sure⌠20,000 lbs of U.S. Foods cheese, this is supermarket/restaurant bulk cheese⌠Why?
My favorite food crime was the Great Maple Syrup Heist:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-02/the-great-canadian-maple-syrup-heist
On the other hand, if you want to support the real Mafia, in Sicily, buy Bertoli Extra Virgin Olive Oil, at U.S. supermarkets everywhere. You wonât get real EVOO (as Rachel Ray says), but you will be putting money in the pocket of La Cosa Nostra.
My guess is it was likely mozzarella, probably shredded. The 15 lbs. bags are easily repackaged â actually reboxed â as the maker is only identified on the bags by production numbers/codes. Unless some Ma and Pa pizzeria wants to research the numbers, theyâd have no way of knowing where it came from. And why would they? At least, thatâs how Pizza Hutâs cheese was packaged, i.e. two bags per case marked on the box as Pizza HutÂŽ All-Natural Mozzarella Cheese. I donât even remember the boxes being marked Leprino Foods (another huge mozzarella maker) even though they were the manufacturer.
But whoâs to know?
I always figured that Bertoli was mixed safflower oil from Turkey with some green coloring. Now youâre telling me it is hot mixed safflower oil from Turkey with some green coloring.
I just wish good California EVOO wasnât so expensive, because it is sure good. Fresh counts.
I miss buying local maple syrup when I lived in Quebec. I miss the winters less.