Get the inside story of the monthslong investigation into a sophisticated double-brokering network on the latest episode of Long-Haul Crime Log, FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection seizes drugs from trucks on a regular basis. Lawyer Su Ross of MSK talks to Long-Haul Crime Log host Nate Tabak about what fleets and owner-operators need to know when drugs are found in one of their trucks.
Ex-Pilot president alleges reverse racism as he seeks different judge, location for second fuel fraud trial. Long-Haul Crime Log investigates the claims.
The latest episode of FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast, Long-Haul Crime Log, examines drug supply chains and what happens when there’s a capacity crunch for narcotics traffickers.
The case of two truckers charged in a $4.5 million seizure at a remote U.S.-Canada border crossing in North Dakota isn’t typical. The latest episode of the true-crime podcast, Long-Haul Crime Log, explains why.
Two truckers charged with kidnapping women were able to secure their own releases with relative ease during the investigation. Find out why this raises troubling questions about this case in the latest episode of Long-Haul Crime Log.
Members of the trucking industry in the U.S. and Mexico allege that Mexican truck drivers are doing illegal runs inside the United States in violation of cabotage rules. FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast, Long-Haul Crime Log, investigates.
Lured by the promise of better pay and the American dream, some foreign drivers found themselves trapped in an alleged human-trafficking scheme.
A former freight broker recounts how she and her colleagues averted a sophisticated attempt to steal $60,000 worth of tires through a double-brokered load.
CBP seized the Hong Kong-bound corn flakes frosted with cocaine at an express consignment facility near Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
The manager of a small U.S. trucking company recounts the harrowing experience of a ransomware attack and the troubling breach of its transportation management system.
Since the federal government started regulating the number of hours a truck driver can legally drive in a day, requiring either paper logs or higher-tech records, some motor carriers and truckers have devised ways to skirt the rules by falsifying drivers’ log books.
Charges against a newly minted trucker are dropped as prosecutors point to his “lack of involvement” in $2.8 million worth of marijuana found in a sealed trailer of pork at the U.S.-Canada border.
With Mexico’s National Vaccination Plan underway, the country is already emerging as the epicenter for criminal activity surrounding coronavirus vaccines. On this episode of FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast Long-Haul Crime Log, we discuss how distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine could be a major challenge in a country already besieged by cartel violence and cargo theft. The […]
A modern day Bonnie and Clyde, an Arizona prison break, and the two team truck drivers who became hostages. Hear the harrowing story on the newest episode of Long-Haul Crime Log, the true crime podcast from FreightWaves.
The Turnpike Phantom was a killer who preyed on sleeping truckers nearly 70 years ago. FreightWaves’ true-crime podcast Long-Haul Crime Log revisits those events as well as an unsolved driver killing from 2014 and the latest news from the dark side of freight.
FreightWaves launches Long-Haul Crime Log, a weekly true-crime podcast about the dark side of the world of freight. Our first episode covers the crimes of an executed trucker, drug busts at the U.S.-Mexico border and cyberattacks on the trucking industry.
