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Crowley was one of 10 winners of the 2025 Fraud Fighters Award.
Now on demand on WHAT THE TRUCK?!? Dooner is joined by Carrier411’s Darren Brewer
The Department of Justice has charged four individuals for allegedly stealing U.S. Treasury checks from postal facilities.
Nikola Founder Trevor Milton releases documentary aiming to set the story straight about his fall from leadership.
In this edition: Senate considers 2 bills to combat freight fraud; Zillow for warehousing.
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a group of Russian hackers has gone into overdrive. As Western countries began ramping up military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, the GRU focused on the logistics and tech companies that support those flows.
The U.S. government says it moved to block a businessman and his two logistics companies from using fake postal labels to ship parcels from China to the United States.
From oversharing on socials to leaving systems unsecured, your data can smooth the path for freight fraudsters.
Highway’s Michael Caney explores the importance of an identity layer in vetting practices, know-your-customer principles and technological solutions to verify carrier capabilities
Overhaul’s CEO breaks down why today’s cargo theft crisis is less about missing locks and more about missing identities – and what the supply chain must do to fight back.
Polar Air Cargo is gone, but another person involved in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the company years ago just got sentenced to two years in prison.
Fraud Watch analyzes Overhaul’s 2025 Q1 Mexico cargo theft report
Transportation providers and tech startups are among the winners of the 2025 FreightWaves Fraud Fighters Awards.
Freight broker Landstar System reported a messy first quarter, dragged down by insurance costs, fraud and stolen cargo.
State and federal officials are looking at ways to close loopholes and tighten regulations that govern how non-U.S. truck drivers gain the right to operate within the U.S.
Texas law enforcement, faced with a sharp increase in the number of truckers who had the Mexican equivalent of a U.S. CDL, used an informal geography test to learn that many of those individuals were from Honduras, Guatemala or other nations.
There is no easy fix: Enhancing trucking safety and driver competence, as well as combating CDL fraud, will take an all-hands-on-deck effort at every level of government.
Fraud Watch also salutes a detective fighting cargo theft in Philly.
This week: We examine freight fraud stats and close the case on some stolen vehicles.