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.
DEA’s McAllen office uncovered more than 2,000 pounds of methamphetamine concealed among cabbage. Federal authorities have not disclosed where they found the shipment or who transported it.
Police found 277 pounds of cocaine inside a truck’s sleeper compartment. The driver’s employer disputes his account of the trip.
A tractor-trailer declared as carrying leeks entered Texas through the Pharr International Bridge. CBP officers found 395 packages of suspected methamphetamine worth $10.75 million.
Two shipments left an Anheuser-Busch distribution center in Montclair, California, on Aug. 17 but never reached their destinations. Police are investigating whether fraudulent documentation, trucking details and driver information connect the cargo thefts.
Falsified documents were used to pick up the Nike shipment in Memphis before investigators recovered $647,420 in merchandise in Illinois.
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its broker transparency rulemaking to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on August 27, clearing the last internal checkpoint before publication and moving a document that had missed two target dates this year into the final stage of executive branch review. The listing shows the […]
Arizona law enforcement coordinated two interstate stops after an investigator located a stolen trailer. Officers recovered roughly $400,000 in cargo within minutes.
Two men received 15-year federal prison sentences after investigators uncovered more than 700 pounds of methamphetamine concealed among cucumber boxes. The June 2025 investigation began with surveillance of a commercial trailer.
There is a question hanging over the small carrier world right now, and two of the most knowledgeable transportation attorneys in the country did not flinch from it when they sat down separately on The Long Haul. The question is whether the small carrier, the one-truck owner-operator and the five-truck fleet, still has a viable […]
The sheriff’s release identifies Atlanta and Orlando as the shipment’s intended destinations. It also raises new questions about how contraband can move through commercial freight.
