Pallet Thieves 1-7-2017

Looking for help from the AZTW community. We had 16 pallets stolen from behind the shop on Saturday night at about 10pm. Pallets are not free and these are used by us daily to ship orders internationally or large freight orders within the US. These thieves stole 16 pallets from us at $55 a piece.

Any help is appreciated.

Smile you're on camera! Looks like a White 2nd Gen with MB wheels, a darker 1st gen possibly black or green with a faded hood and an older Ford Ranger with fiberglass front fenders, tube style front bumper and stickers on the side windows.

Thanks guys!

 

who steals pallets?

 

Ill be on the lookout.

 

I think that's what he's trying to find out..

 

wait, $55 for a pallet?

 

It's a HUGE business on the resale market places buy these things for $10 each...

WE BUY PALLETS
Wondering Who Buys Pallets? Kamps Pallets Will Pay Top Dollar
Kamps Pallets actively seeks pallets to maintain our supply chain for our customers’ needs. Kamps buys pallets by the truck load. This means typically 400+ pallets or more at a time. If you have large odd sized pallets of 100 or more we may be interested in buying those as well.

Give us a call if you have a large volume of a size not listed. Our professional sales staff will work to find a home for them or Kamps will use them for their components.

• If your pallets can be repaired and re-sold we will purchase them at a fair market price.
• If your pallets are scrap, we can pick them up at little or no cost to you depending on your location, saving your waste disposal fees and the unnecessary filling up of our landfills.

 

Ballsy move.... I'm better these ended up in a bonfire in some desert party.

 

dude. Pallets are dime a dozen here, people throw them out.

I didnt know they'd be worth $55 each.

 

Here in LA, people use them for firewood. lol

 

Plastic is fantastic - and it's also big business for thieves who steal the pallets and sell them to recyclers for cash. A pre-Christmas raid by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Industrial Plastics Theft Task Force - yes, there really are five officers dedicated to tracking down and arresting those who steal industrial plastics of all types - at a South LA plastics recycling facility netted the task force over $250,000 worth of illegally obtained pallets.

Also confiscated, in addition to the plastic pallets, were a number of large boxes containing hundreds of pounds of ground plastic.


On Dec. 19, 2011, LA Police task force members conducting business and professions code compliance checks of recycling businesses uncovered a large pallet theft ring in south LA.
The plastic pallets were recovered thanks to the RFID tags on the pallets owned by Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC). iGPS has been a supporter of the task force and has worked with it in its efforts to stop plastic pallet theft.

Al Farrell, VP of Asset Management at iGPS, toldPlasticsToday in a telephone interview that plastic pallet theft is a "significant problem resulting in a multi-million dollar line item loss" for companies. This is the second major pallet theft bust that iGPS has participated in in less than six months. RFID tags on iGPS pallets helped Virginia State Police trace a large cache of misappropriated plastic pallets and containers at a pallet manufacturing and recycling firm operating in New Kent County, VA

Thieves don't just steal pallets, but also plastic milk crates, baking trays, and other industrial plastic containers which they then sell to plastic recycling facilities for cash. "The value of resin has gone up so much that this has become a lucrative business for these thieves," says Farrell.

Arizona implements legislation to discourage plastic pallet theft
Taking a lesson from previous legislation keyed on metal recyclers who would pay cash-on-the-barrel-head for steel, aluminum and copper - often stolen by thieves who need the cash - Arizona state legislators hope to discourage the theft of pallets used in wholesale deliveries by requiring recycling firms to keep a record of the people who turn in company-branded pallets for cash.

Supporters of the law said Arizona businesses are losing up to $3 million a year from the theft of plastic and wooden pallets, used by wholesale suppliers to deliver a variety of goods to grocery stores. Penalties could lead to fines of up to $30,000 for convicted pallet thieves.

While they were in the minority, opponents criticized the measure as "nanny" legislation and said the punishment was unjustifiably severe because it's already illegal in Arizona to possess stolen pallets.

This past summer, new restrictions were placed on recycling companies that shred, resell or destroy pallets. If they buy five or more plastic pallets at a time from any individual the recycling firms must collect identifying information from the sellers, including name, phone number, driver's license or other ID number, and license-plate number. Recycling firms must keep the records on hand for at least a year and be open during regular business hours so police can examine the paperwork, according to the legislation, which is similar to the legislation passed a few years ago on recyclers of scrap metal.

Over $5 million in stolen trademarked plastic of various types has been recovered in the last four months of 2011, according to Capt. Mike Claus of the City of Industry sheriff's station, where the task force is based.

"Additionally, there's a large recycling community out there creating greater demand for recyclable plastics, and the problem is growing. For us, it's very important to manage the pool of our asset base," Farrell adds. "It's critical to what we do and we use a variety of procedures and processes to do the best we can to minimize loss and track down assets that stray from our supply chain."

iGPS uses both active and passive tracking technologies. Each pallet manufactured by iGPS has its own unique serial number. If products stray outside the supply chain, iGPS can track down the pallets, identify them discretely and prove that they are the property of iGPS.

The LA County Sheriff's Industrial Plastics Task Force had its beginning in the City of Industry, CA, a suburb of Los Angeles and a big industrial center with a large number of plastics processing companies. The City of Industry has funded this dedicated task force pursue plastic theft.

"All the wrong conditions lead to the formation of this task force," Farrell explains. "Los Angeles is a port city with a high population, and a lot of available plastic and grinding capacity. Often the theft and grinding of the pallets is associated with other criminal activity, so finding the plastic thieves often leads to drug busts and other illegal activities. The City of Industry is trying to create a better bus climate. The Task Force has been up and running since October and they have done a great job in helping us deter theft."

 

Not very good Toyota owners....

 

I really didn't think those things were worth $55... I don't even know why you'd steal the things to begin with. If you're going steal something, better make it worth while




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There he goes again. Thinking group pallet sale.

 

I hope you catch the bastards. I hate thieves.

 

People are making $500/700 a day selling pallets to recycling companies

 

Plastic ones are worth money for sure. Even wood ones to a point if you use em often..plus there's not having it when you need it.

 

already have a lead on it, shouldn't be long.

The sad thing about this too is had these kids simply come and asked us in advance there were probably 8-10 pallets that we would have happily let them have since they are not suitable for shipping use any more and needed to be disposed of. But instead they took ones that were brand new and were waiting for slider, bumper or wheel and tire shipments that now have to get pushed back while we order replacements

 

Well I know what business I'm getting into then

 

Hell 2 weeks ago I had a guy come up the garage here at the building and ask "hey man you need some A/C tools" I said what do you have he opened his van doors and all I saw was $$$$$$$$$ signs...TIF,Yellow Jacket,Fluke,Klein,Milwaukee,Dewalt,New AC charging gauges,Field piece meters and Freon recovery machines....Dirt Cheap!