As reported, trucks and their loads always disappear. Despite considerable safety measures, a special truck has now been stolen from a company from the east of Austria. But the company helped itself through social media – successfully.
“I would not have believed that this works,” admits Peter Peofer. The head of Peofer GmbH, with his headquarters in Neunkirchen in Lower Austria, was surprised when he discovered in mid -May that a special truck had disappeared from the branch in Pinggau in Styria. After all, the gateway to the company was closed, the key was not protected in the vehicle with a GPS device.
But the locations were extended by the perpetrators, they started the truck “probably via a laptop”, Peofer believes. The strangers had violently opened the entrance gate to the business community. “They knew what they were doing,” Peofer is sure.
The theft of the Autopomp was noticed the next morning. The company responded immediately: in addition to an advertisement with the police, they trust on social media: “At 10.00 am we started a Facebook call, with photos and the request for help,” explains the company boss. “The employees shared this immediately and also translated it into Hungarian and Romanian.”
Special truck appeared again in Slovenia
The placement was shared 7,500 times across national borders. It also reached a truck driver in Slovenia, who became aware the next day of the squeaky yellow car pump in an industrial area near Marburg. The man reported his find, the Slovenian police moved and stayed with the truck until the employees of Peofer arrived.
The truck was hardly damaged, only the license plates were exchanged. After the researchers had secured the tracks, the vehicle could be transferred home. Peter Peofer knows that he was lucky: the fast creation of the post and that it was divided by so many were incredibly important.
Security care measures are tightened
In the light of others in the same way, the boss hopes thefts in the region that it will remain with this incident. For this he wants to protect himself even better against the very professional thieves with further measures – which of course do not reveal.
Their identity has so far been unknown, as the styric police explained upon request. The investigation would be conducted, also in collaboration with abroad. This should also clarify whether the various truck thefts are connected in the region.
Source: Krone
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