Trailer Alarms said their new concession locks are “impenetrable” — and with good reason. The locks have a hardened steel pin secured inside a block of billet 6061-T6 aluminum alloy, with a recessed pop-out cylinder lock.
“I saw the vulnerability of a variety of concession trailers while at the races,” Lyle Clark, of Trailer Alarms said. “Included are driver’s souvenir trailers, food concession trucks, and racing merchandise trailers. Most of them used a traditional, exterior, slide-bolt latch system, with an exposed padlock to secure doors.”
Clark consulted with renowned lock manufacturer Pacific Lock Company, aka Paclock, of Valencia, California. The new concession locks are CNC-machined and assembled in the USA, with adherence to tight tolerances.
The lock cylinders resist comb attacks. A longer pin in the rear of the cylinder prevents combs from lifting and bypassing cylinders. The cylinders are rekeyable to one of more than 40,000 key combinations.
The lock’s shackle consists of a 13/32″ hardened steel shaft. Two smaller pins lock the shackle when the key turns to the lock position. The smaller pins protect the shaft if someone tries to cut it.
At 2-1/2″ wide, the concession locks are bolt-cutter-, bypass-, and shim-proof, as well as pick-and-bump resistant. They come with a rubber cover to protect the lock cylinder from dirt and grime. A supplied cable can tether the lock to the trailer.
Trailer Alarms sells the concession locks exclusively through Trailer-Alarms.com and ConcessionLocks.com. It costs $74.99 and comes with two keys. When purchasing multiple locks, you can purchase them keyed like one another or keyed differently.
For more than 15 years, Trailer Alarms has led the industry in theft-prevention devices for trailers. See “Trailer Alarms: Protect Your Trailer and What’s Inside” for more on their offerings.
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Trailer Alarms, LLC
New Braunfels, Texas
877-604-7381
trailer-alarms.com
Outside Groove Note of Transparency: Trailer Alarms, LLC, paid for the production of this article. The content was subject to approval of Trailer Alarms, LLC.
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
