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Truck hijackings are becoming far too normal in South Africa.

Last year, Statista stats revealed that in 2023, there were 1,996 truck hijackings in South Africa, an increase over the previous year.

In fact, truck hijackings have more than doubled since 2012 when 821 incidents were reported.

These freight robberies seem to have become so run-of-the-mill that truck drivers don’t even bat an eye when a hijacker shows up to steal the vehicle and its load.

Take for example this brazen hijacking shot on a dashcam video and shared on Facebook by SA Trucker recently, showing three men calmly hijacked a truck driver somewhere in South Africa on 10 January.

When the hijacker pitches up for what can only be another day at work, the driver is pulled over to the side and sat between two other men who also show up and take over the truck. The incident appears to be so casual that the first hijacker even puts his arms around the poor driver, all buddy-buddy.

It’s madness:

Empire Security Solution is sure that truck hijackings are often inside jobs, where the hijackers know what the truck is carrying before planning to stop it, and often already have buyers waiting on the other side.

It was just another day in the office for those okes.

[source:southafrican]