An organization that fights construction equipment theft warned today that equipment owners, dealers and rental companies in the Gulf region should take steps to make their machines secure because thievery increases after a hurricane.
In advance of Hurricane Ike, National Equipment Register spokesman David Shillingford advised by e-mail that the NER after hurricane Katrina had "spent a huge amount of time responding to and working on theft and fraud cases" which "could have been avoided if certain precautions had been taken."
David Grant Mossman, an NER senior analyst, said in a statement that when post-hurricane cleanup efforts begin, the vulnerability of and demand for equipment will undoubtedly result in increased thefts, and owners that take steps to address this will be less likely to be targeted.
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