31% Increase in Pickup Truck Tailgate Theft

Pickup truck sales are on the rise, and so are truck tailgate thefts. After analyzing insurance data for the past two years, the National Insurance Crime Bureau found that claims for stolen tailgates jumped from 831 in 2012 to 1,090 in 2013, a 31 percent increase. The majority of claims (92 percent) involved personal vehicles, while only a fraction (8 percent) were attributed to commercial vehicles. But the NICB found that claims associated with commercial vehicles each involved the theft of multiple tailgates, indicating that the total number could be higher.