RV Dealer Burglaries
On Jan. 22, 2008 RV Trade Digest posted a blog entitled “RV Burglaries on the Rise.” The blog mentioned a dealership that had been burglarized and that it was happening more frequently at dealerships around the country.
Sadly, more than a year later RV Trade Digest is still posting news stories about dealers who have had units broken into mainly for electronic items.
Just this week RV Trade Digest reported that A Mankato RV dealer was not only burglarized once, but multiple times in a short period of time.
I am not a dealer but I would think that removing the electronics from the units would be the best plan of action, but I want to hear from our readers how this problem can be solved or at least limited.
With the current economic troubles RV dealers have enough to worry about then having their units broken into and vandalized.
I would like a discussion on what your dealership is doing to limit burglaries, if you have a policy in place to combat theft or if you intend to implement one.
January 4th, 2012 at 4:01 am
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March 9th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Two Saturday’s ago we had 10 broken into. We do remove TV’s, they riped out the speakers and steros and left lots of damage. We also have 6′ fences with barbed wire but it didn’t stop them, they just cut the barbed wire. We have cameras and are currently intstalling more, we will see if that fixes the problem.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
We have six foot tall fencing with barbed wire topping on it, and we just recently installed a video surveilance system. Since we have put in the surveilance we have had no iother occasions of burglary, especially since our local competitors are a much easier mark with their inventory not being fenced or videoed. I am sure where your store is located has something to do with it also. we have good lighting and are on a very busy roadway.