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Cargo trucks make their way to Queretaro, a northern state of Mexico, on the Mexico-Queretaro highway, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Along some major highways, armed gangs take control of one fully loaded 18-wheeler after another. They unhitch seized tractor-trailers and hitch them on to their own cabs, hauling the loot away. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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Cargo trucks make their way to Queretaro, a northern state of Mexico, on the Mexico-Queretaro highway, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Along some major highways, armed gangs take control of one fully loaded 18-wheeler after another. They unhitch seized tractor-trailers and hitch them on to their own cabs, hauling the loot away. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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Along some major highways, armed gangs take control of one fully loaded 18-wheeler after another. They unhitch seized tractor-trailers and hitch them on to their own cabs, hauling the loot away. "They can do it in less than two minutes," says Gustavo Passa, regional safety and security manager for Ryder System, a global transportation and logistics company with headquarters in suburban Miami. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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A worker looks at screens as he tracks down cargo trucks with GPS systems at a security company in Mexico city, May 13, 2010. Robbers are upping their game, learning to disable the GPS locator on top of cabs or pulling the hijacked vehicle under bridges to block the signal, giving them more time to offload or re-hitch the trailer. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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A man walks past cargo cars at the Lecheria railroad station in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Train robberies occur an average of 4.5 times a day, and some areas of Mexico are so rife with truck hijackings that one newspaper labeled them "Bermuda Triangles" Ð referring to the Atlantic Ocean region where ships and planes supposedly vanish. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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A woman walks past cargo cars at the Lecheria railroad station in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Train robberies occur an average of 4.5 times a day, and some areas of Mexico are so rife with truck hijackings that one newspaper labeled them "Bermuda Triangles" Ð referring to the Atlantic Ocean region where ships and planes supposedly vanish. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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Cargo wagons are parked at the Lecheria railroad station in Tepotzotlan, Mexico, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Train robberies occur an average of 4.5 times a day, and some areas of Mexico are so rife with truck hijackings that one newspaper labeled them "Bermuda Triangles" - referring to the Atlantic Ocean region where ships and planes supposedly vanish. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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Truck driver Jose Ranchero boards his truck after loading diesel at a PEMEX gas station in the area of Tepotzotlan, Mexico, May 13, 2010. Highway robbers and railway bandits are riding high in Mexico, pulling off brazen daylight heists and inflicting serious damage on the national economy. Along some major highways, armed gangs take control of one fully loaded 18-wheeler after another. They unhitch seized tractor-trailers and hitch them on to their own cabs, hauling the loot away. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)
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