The Preventing Auto Recycling Thefts (PART) Act can help address catalytic converter thefts by marking each converter with a traceable identification number and establishing these thefts as a criminal offense.
Pickup models by Ford, Chevrolet, Dodge, and GMC all rank among the top 15 most stolen vehicles between 2010 and 2020.
As fuel prices rise, gas theft has started to increase. There have been reports of thieves drilling into vehicle fuel tanks to steal the gasoline.
Vehicle thefts are on the uptick nationwide, rising from almost 800,000 stolen cars in 2019 to nearly 875,000 in 2020. Some states and cities have been particularly hard hit.
As the number of thefts of the valuable vehicle part increase, here’s what managers can do to protect their assets.
In 2020, the top three states for auto theft were California, Texas, and Florida.
Cities across the country have reported triple, even quadruple the number of converter thefts in 2020 compared to 2019. Fortunately, there are a variety of measures you can do to prevent this from happening to your fleet.
Many fleet vehicles have been idled or parked in storage areas during the COVID-19 pandemic. One consequence has been an uptick in part thefts from these parked vocational vehicles.
From 2014 through 2017, an average of more than 2,000 vehicles were stolen on the Fourth of July holiday each year, which ranks the holiday in the middle of the list of highest-risk holidays for vehicle thefts, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
While vehicle thefts in the Albuquerque, New Mexico, metropolitan statistical area (MSA) have dropped 28% since 2016, the city continues to have the highest per capita rate of vehicle theft in the nation, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau's 2018 Hot Spots report.
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