When things are staged at the dock, whether inbound or scheduled to be picked up, they’re particularly at risk for pilferage.
Any operation that stores, ships or receives valuable items is at risk of being hit – or is already being hit to some degree. Thieves working at a shipping dock may simply wait until after a supervisor finished checking outbound shipments and add more to them before they depart. Since the shipments can sit on the docks for 90 minutes or more, pilferers have time to work on this. And it’s extremely difficult to detect. When thieves place extra cases onto staged pallets and those can ship out on trucks driven by colluding drivers.
