BABACO Alarms Rule According to SPIRITS Magazine

Editor’s Note: This excellent article is from Spirits, a former liquor industry news magazine. You will see, they endorse BABACO Alarm systems, as a sure-fire way to protect their precious liquid cargo. But the article applies to cargo of every sort, as the theft of pharmaceuticals, electronics, designer clothing, and cigarettes is on the rise.

You put your money in a bank; you have a safe in the office for your books and important papers; perhaps you even hire an armored car to deliver the payroll each week. But what do you do with the commodity that you depend on for a livelihood? In too many instances, hundreds of cases of liquor, millions of dollars, are left unguarded in a truck emblazoned with signs denoting the nature of your business—a gold-plated invitation for any thieves in the vicinity.

Sure you’re insured. You’ll get your money back but your customers can’t sell money. Some retailers are counting on that shipment for a special promotion or advertising push. If it’s stolen, they’ll sympathize with you personally but as businessmen, they may fell otherwise about it.

So what to do about it?

Millions of dollars worth of products are not moved only on trucks protected by burglar alarms. There are no losses reported from vehicles equipped with these devices but attacks upon the unprotected trucks have been stepped up.

The BABACO truck alarm system is surprisingly simple to use and very effective. The truck is wired so that any attempt at thievery, including even the towing of the truck itself, automatically sets off a screaming siren that if it doesn’t scare the daylights out of the thief and send him on a record shattering three-minute-mile sprint, will certainly attract the attention of any law enforcement agencies for miles around.

The system is individually installed on any truck or van. Each alarm contains a motion sensor device, which prevents the vehicle from being towed off or driven away. If a thief should try to drive a wired truck away, not only will the siren sound but also the starter is automatically disabled.

The system provides 24-hour protective service. The latest innovation is a “one key” feature. One key allows the driver to operate the truck, lock cargo compartments, and set the alarm system. An incidental sidelight is that it helps on the budget, since the driver is required to turn off the motor at each stop.

Installation of such a system is approved by most insurance companies. Many times it will be at a lower premium rate, or with higher limits, or both.

The mere fact that a truck carries several stickers and signs prominently displayed that reads “Warning—Protected by an automatic alarm system, not under driver’s control” is usually sufficient deterrent to a would-be thief.

Often, instead of running the truck off the road and hijacking the contents at the point of a gun, thieves study delivery schedules, follow the truck and wait for the opportune moment when the driver stops to make a delivery or pickup or take a “coffee break.’”

Acting swiftly, he unloads as much of the cargo as time allows.

Rather than one big haul every so often, today’s liquor hijacker is content with, or later forced to be content with, a series of small thefts.

Whether you are a producer, wholesaler, or distributor, it would do you well to give some serous thought to installation of alarm systems on your carriers, particularly for the small cost involved. The effectiveness of the device is proving itself to more and more truck users every year.