Larry Gilliam returned to Norfolk, Virginia, from a drayage run to Georgia on Monday to find one of his trucks with a hole punched in the passenger-side window. He thought a thief wanted to steal the radio from his 2105 Freightliner Cascadia.
Then he looked closer. The dash had been pried open. Wiring jutted from a gaping hole where the truck’s common powertrain control module (CPC) used to be.
The brute force brain surgery left Gilliam’s truck immovable. It is one of hundreds of similar thefts...
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