SUV stolen from Toronto driveway shows up 50 days later — AirTags tracked vehicle from Canada to Middle East, offering glimpse into shipping routes used by car thieves::A Toronto man used location tags to track his stolen GMC Yukon from a rail yard in the GTA to a used car lot in the United Arab Emirates. But despite calls to several police services and the help of a private investigator, he’s no closer to getting it back.
Would they, though? Wouldn’t they just write it off? I mean, I have no idea what it costs to ship a vehicle from the middle east, but if it involves cargo ships and freight trains, would they bother? Has he got to arrange and pay for it himself and get reimbursed? Just buy a new car. Trying to get it back at this point is over the top. Maybe don’t buy a douchemobile next time.
Brand-new cars get shipped all the time over oceans before showing up in showrooms, it’s not that expensive.
OTOH it might be cheaper to sell the car in the middle east and buy a used one on the continent it’s produced on. On yet another hand the insurance might just say “we don’t want to deal with this shit” and pay out: Even figuring out the legalities, paying agents in multiple countries etc. might be more expensive.
That is done in bulk however. Shipping one car is expensive
Something tells me stolen cars are shipped in bulk.
They’d absolutely write it off, the shipping would pale in comparison to the effort to clear all the foreign paperwork and then get it back into Canada. And as the owner, you’d want it replaced because you have no idea what’s been done to it in the several months it would take to get it back.
Apparently the shipping wasn’t too much for the thieves. Wonder why they bother stealing a vehicle from Canada and not somewhere closer to where it was going to end up.
Maybe because the truck is free for the thieves and costs full price for the insurance company? And if you want to pick peaches, you go where the peaches are, then drive all the way back. There are very few Yukon or Yukon size vehicles outside of NA.
The Canadian government subsidizes their shipping at the expense of tax payers.