A car hauler driver and a Manheim security guard were killed early Tuesday morning at Manheim’s San Francisco-area auction site in Hayward; news reports mentioned that auction site is just off the Nimitz freeway that was famously damaged during the October 1989 earthquake. The car hauler was found still in reverse with the dead driver behind the wheel with the trailer crashed into some cars.
No suspects are in custody and no motive is yet known for the killings. Today’s scheduled auction at the Hayward site hasn’t been canceled as of yet.
Car transport can be a dangerous business. You’re carrying upwards of a half-million dollars worth of cargo if you’re hauling luxury vehicles, so thieves are always a threat. In addition, taking cars to an auction site adds the prospect of having part of that load being repossessed cars being auctioned off by the loan holder; the former owner of the repossessed car might be possessed with rage and might take out his anger in a delayed fashion at the people auctioning off his car.
The show-must-go-on mentality of Manheim seems a bit cold, but their mission of providing a secondary market for used cars is important; if they wait until next week to restart things, car dealers and banks will be sitting on unwanted inventory for another week, costing them money. Also, in a post-9/11 environment, there is often an stiff upper lip attitude of not letting the killer win another victory by keeping them from moving cars as normal.
Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...BRCOH.DTL&tsp=1
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