If you own or manage commercial property, here is a statistic that should keep you up at night: 40 percent of all property crime in the United States happens in parking lots. Not dark alleys, not residential streets — parking lots. The numbers have gotten worse every year since 2019. FBI data shows ...
Car theft numbers tell a complicated story right now. In the US, vehicles stolen in 2025 dropped about 23% after the Kia Challenge social media surge faded. France saw a 6% decline too. But in Canada, Malaysia, and parts of Southeast Asia, thefts are climbing. The raw numbers move around, but the me...
The bollard market has a transparency problem. What's written on a spec sheet and what arrives on a pallet are not always the same thing. Three specific practices are common enough that any serious buyer should know about them before signing a purchase order. The first is composite construction — sp...
The price gap between bollards on the market is wider than most buyers expect. A unit priced at $180 and one at $420 can look almost identical in a product photo. They won't perform the same. Here's what the cheaper one is usually hiding. Thin wall construction is the most common shortcut. Standard ...
A bollard either stops a vehicle or it doesn't. That outcome is mostly decided before the vehicle ever moves. Wall thickness is the single most important structural variable in a bollard's impact resistance. Most buyers never ask about it. Most product pages don't mention it. That gap is where subst...
Most automatic bollard listings don't mention overlap length. That's not an accident. The overlap is the section where the rising inner tube fits inside the fixed outer sleeve. When a vehicle strikes a bollard, the force isn't just pushing down — it's pushing sideways. The overlap zone is what resis...