Truck hijackings have been on the increase every year, which means these criminals certainly are getting the hang of things.stats stating that in 2023, there were 1,996 truck hijackings in South Africa, an increase over the previous year. Truck hijackings have more than doubled since 2012 when 821 incidents were reported.“It has just been getting worse. A couple of months ago 4 400 hampers were made to be taken to Cape Town and the hampers were loaded in two trucks.
He mentioned that one tactic popularised among truck hijackers is to simulate a police ‘roadblock’, with hijackers dressed in police uniforms and using police-marked cars to get the trucks to stop. “Truck gets hijacked, they use a jammer to jam the tracking system. The truck gets taken to a warehouse where the truck is offloaded. The empty truck is then taken and dumped somewhere. There is big money involved. These guys are very strategic in their planning.”