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Inside a call with a freight scammer: the moment a stolen load was confirmed
1+ week, 4+ day ago (185+ words) How freight fraud tactics are evolving Interactions like this are particularly instructive because of the behavioral shift that often occurs once exposure is acknowledged. Criminal actors frequently become more open after a loss is confirmed because operational risk has already…...
From sharpies to vinyl: the professionalization of truck identity in cargo theft
2+ week, 1+ day ago (696+ words) Phil Brink is the Head of Fraud Media and Education at FreightWaves and the CEO and co-founder of The Bannon Report, a freight risk intelligence platform that helps companies verify partners and prevent losses before freight moves. He began his…...
Borderlands Mexico: Violent cargo theft grips Mexican truckers, Overhaul report finds
2+ week, 5+ day ago (809+ words) Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Violent cargo theft grips Mexican truckers, report finds; Filter King opens manufacturing and distribution facility in Dallas; and HENN Americas opens…...
Crabs, cologne and contraband: Supply chain crime spikes across freight lanes
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (509+ words) A wave of recent enforcement announcements in the U.S. and Canada illustrates how cargo crime now spans cyber-facilitated freight fraud, bulk narcotics concealment inside commercial trailers, and export smuggling schemes embedded within legitimate logistics flows. From stolen truckloads of frozen seafood…...
California, Texas account for 58% of US cargo theft in 2025
3+ week, 2+ day ago (530+ words) California and Texas accounted for more than half of all reported U.S. cargo thefts in 2025, underscoring how concentrated freight crime has become in the nation's largest logistics hubs." California alone represented 38% of all recorded cargo theft incidents last year, up from…...
Arrive Logistics trims Toronto headcount as it retools Canadian operations
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (342+ words) Arrive Logistics has laid off five employees from its Toronto office as it reconfigures how the brokerage supports customers and carriers in Canada. Evan Pundyk, the company's vice president of marketing, told FreightWaves the staffing reduction followed a review of…...
Who's Hauling Your Freight? $60 Million Says You Need to Know.
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1700+ words) This week, the company Joyce co-founded announced a $60 million Series B funding round. The target now isn't terrorists. It's trucks. If you follow me, Danielle Chaffin, Justin Martin, Gord Magill, or the other Freight X'ers on X, you know it's…...
Cargo theft remains elevated across U.S. and Mexico as organized crime adapts
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (655+ words) Cargo theft across North America remained elevated in the fourth quarter, with organized criminal groups increasingly targeting rail corridors, major freight hubs and high-value consumer goods, according to new data released by BSI Consulting. The report shows theft risk clustering…...
Cargo thieves sentenced to prison for hijacking trucks
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (231+ words) Six people were recently sentenced to prison terms up to 13.5 years for participating in a multi-state conspiracy to steal millions of dollars of cargo from tractor trailers during transit, the Department of Justice said Friday." Juan Perez-Gonzalez, 51, a Cuban national…...
The Stagecoach Robbing Era and The Evolution of Freight Fraud
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (1646+ words) In the Old West, a man could rob a stagecoach, cross into the next territory, and start fresh with a new name. There were no fingerprints. No databases. No way to objectively prove identity beyond a wanted poster and an…...