Geotab has launched a fleet card that uses vehicle telematics data to authorize fuel purchases, monitor spending and prevent unauthorized transactions. The company said diesel prices can vary by as much as 77 cents per gallon between stations in the same town.
The driver apparently had no idea. Investigators say thieves manipulated transportation information to make the redirected shipment appear legitimate.
A load of televisions left California bound for Florida but never arrived. Prosecutors traced that shipment into a much larger operation.
The trailers disappeared overnight from a Fremont, California, warehouse after their locks were broken. Police recovered them in nearby Newark the same afternoon, but investigators still don’t know who took them.
Thirty stolen transformers worth about $600,000 were among the recoveries during a nationwide operation targeting cargo theft networks.
The discovery went beyond hundreds of pounds of suspected heroin. Investigators also found 174 handguns with obliterated serial numbers inside the semi.
Arkansas Highway Police found 254 kilograms of cocaine, methamphetamine and other contraband during two commercial vehicle stops along I-40.
Kristopher Lunsford faces federal charges over a trucking investment operation prosecutors claim used newer investor funds to pay earlier participants.
Criminals can know exactly what freight they want before arriving for pickup. The FBI’s Memphis Cargo Theft Task Force says cyber-enabled schemes are changing how thieves target shipments.
A new survey of 150 U.S. loss and organized retail crime prevention professionals finds rising cargo theft concerns, multimillion-dollar losses and increasingly sophisticated tactics.
Three men face federal charges in two investigations involving commercial freight and four CSX rail shipments. Authorities say the cases unfolded across multiple states during 2024.
Police say approximately half a pallet of ribs disappeared from the South Philadelphia load. A Ford F-150 carried the cargo away while an unidentified Jeep accompanied the getaway.
A Georgia theft alert led Florida investigators to stolen trucks and cargo in St. Johns County. An arrest report details the recovery and two grand theft charges.
A California man now faces felony charges after Delaware troopers followed a trail of fraudulent documents, a false plate and a parked tractor-trailer.
Police went looking for one fugitive and uncovered a $110,000 chicken load offered to settle a drug debt.
FleetCor, now Corpay, and CEO Ronald Clarke agreed on a proposed $100 million settlement after courts upheld the FTC’s core findings. Funds would support redress for harmed business customers.
A truck driver fled after Nebraska troopers discovered $250,000 in stolen commercial speakers inside a semi. Officers also found false delivery paperwork during the Sept. 9 encounter near Gothenburg. Other merchandise filled about half of the trailer. Investigators later traced everything aboard to thefts from Illinois and New York. The Nebraska State Patrol received an […]
A commercial vehicle inspection in Dawson County uncovered the largest drug seizure by volume in Nebraska State Patrol history.
A copper shipment bound for South Carolina ended up in a Kentucky warehouse. Schneider GPS data helped investigators recover the cargo, while authorities took four people into custody across Kentucky and Ohio.
A Philadelphia crew targeted parked trailers while drivers slept. Group chats and bank surveillance helped investigators trace the stolen freight.
