Do Your Fleets Drive These?
Written by Marlo .
The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) posted its list of theft data for passenger vehicles 1 to 3 years old. The Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), is an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Top of the list? The the 2007-09 Cadillac Escalade. To give you an idea of how much the theft of Escalades affects the public, consider that the HLDI estimates the average theft payment per year for all passenger vehicles to be $14. It is $143 for the Escalade. Losses for SUV’s are six times higher than for passenger vehicles.
It is not just suburbanites and their SUV’s that are targets.
Work trucks are high on the list with the Ford F-250 being number two. Kim Hazelbaker, HLDI senior vice president, states, “”Investigators tell us big work trucks like the Ford F-250/350, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, and Dodge Ram 2500 are attractive not only because of the vehicles themselves but also because of the tools and cargo they carry.”