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Originally Posted by f6twister
For a very good reason. If the government can track the truck, so can other people.
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Sorry, but that argument really doesn't make sense. It's not like someone will be sitting at home in front of their internet GPS tracking station and think "Oh, I have never before considered hijacking a treasury transport truck, but because I can easily monitor this one I think that I will begin my life of crime now!"
A thief who wants to commit such a crime can track the shipment just by getting in their car and following it. If the thief knew that the shipment was being monitored in real time via GPS then I think it would be more of a deterrent. If any deviation from the route or disappearance of the GPS signal would draw immidiate police presense to the last known location, it would make the crime considerably harder to pull off. As it was, the culprits had plenty of time to conceal what they'd done. I only hope that the driver was an accomplice and not an innocent victim.