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Article: LOSSES AMOUNT TO $ 1 BILLION A YEAR: Heavy equipment theft a growing problem in West Virginia, other states
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- March 21, 2007
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Mike Zirkle, director of member services at the Contractors
Association of West Virginia, knew there was a problem when the theft
of heavy equipment became the topic at a recent contractors' meeting.
"There were about 20 of us sitting around and somebody told a
story about equipment theft and everybody had a war story," Zirkle
said. "That's when it dawned on us, we should have a seminar about
this problem."
That seminar will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday in Conference
Room 205 of the Civic Center. It is one of 53 seminars to be offered
as part of the 28th Annual West Virginia Equipment, Technology &
Design Exposition, which opens Wednesday.
Seminar presenters will be Sgt. Michael ...