Truck yard and equipment security in Puslinch

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Aggregate pits and trucking yards along Highway 401 and Highway 6

Puslinch Township, just south of Guelph between Cambridge and the 401, counts 27 aggregate sites, 25 pits and 2 quarries, most of them within a kilometre of regional roads built for heavy trucking and within 5 kilometres of Highway 401. Highway 6 crosses the township as well, and material from several pits is shipped out through the Aberfoyle Pit on Brock Road. Around that aggregate base sit the trucking yards that move it and the contractors who use it, on a township of under 8,000 people spread across a lot of open land.

That open land and light traffic are exactly what make a Puslinch yard a target once the gate is locked. On March 14, 2024, Wellington County OPP say five Volvo semi-tractor trucks worth more than $1 million in total were driven off a trucking yard near Highway 401 at around 9 p.m., with suspects arriving in a black sedan, two white pickup trucks and a dark SUV. The following year, between April 2 and 9, 2025, someone made off with a yellow 2000 Caterpillar vibratory compactor from a property on Wellington Road 34 near Victoria Road South. Idle trucks and construction equipment parked overnight on a rural property are what both thefts had in common.

Sigma covers a Puslinch trucking yard or equipment lot without putting a guard on the property. Cameras with AI person and vehicle detection flag anyone moving among the trucks or machinery after hours, an agent checks the live video, gives a live, instant talk-down through the site's speakers and calls Wellington County OPP if the person stays. Yard Operations adds parking reports and truck and trailer damage inspections so you know what's on the lot each morning.

Also covering Aberfoyle, Morriston, Arkell, Killean, Badenoch, Crieff, Guelph, Cambridge.