CUBA NEWS
January 7, 2003

FROM CUBA
Cuban government trucking concern takes measures to prevent theft

HAVANA, January 5 (www.cubanet.org) - The government trucking company in the central Cuban province of Villa Clara has been training its drivers to spot attempts at pilferage and other illegal diversions of their loads.

The measures implemented by the company go so far as to require documentation of routes, itineraries, average speeds of travel and fuel consumption in the log books.

Drivers have also been asked to identify areas where holdups are more likely to occur, and details on the assailants methods.

"What has been happening is really unheard of and alarming. The company decided that we would only drive at night when the trips were extremely urgent, in order to avoid holdups, and whenever possible other drivers ride shotgun on the load," said a driver who asked that his identity be withheld.

Back in November, a number of the company's managers and workers discussed the likelihood that some of the crimes were inside jobs. At the same meeting, the information came out that there had been five armed robberies during the year of trucks underway, most in the National Highway. The Ministry of the Interior has offered protection in some stretches of the road considered most at risk, but it's been hard to tell.

Lately, a new type of assailant has surfaced: the "ninjas," so called for their similarity to the Japanese ninjas in the movies. These reportedly ride up to the moving trucks in motorcycles, jump onto the trucks and unload merchandise from the trucks, sometimes even managing to avoid attracting the driver's notice.


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