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Grand jury indicts seven men on charges they targeted trucks for robberies.

Investigators in Canada recently arrested nine men for using trucks to smuggle cocaine, while police in Arizona recovered a truckload of stolen electronics.

Alleged members of an Armenian criminal enterprise were arrested Tuesday in connection with the theft of more than $83 million worth of goods from Amazon.

Patrick Lee Miller, 56, of Malvern, Iowa, has been charged with attempted murder after an alleged road rage incident on Interstate 80 in Jasper County, Illinois.

Federal investigators accuse nine logistics workers and executives of devising an elaborate scheme to slip $200 million worth of counterfeit goods from China past customs officials at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.

A high-level executive at a prominent air cargo company was sentenced to prison for defrauding the company.

Charles Christian Haskell, 51, of Las Vegas, was charged with five counts of death by motor vehicle after a crash involving his tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Wilson County, North Carolina, on July 24.

FreightTech hasn’t solved freight fraud, and regulators can’t figure out who is regulating it. Is there a solution?

Criminals aggressively target commercial trains, tractor-trailers

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.

“We are deeply shocked and saddened by the loss of our team members following the tragic shooting,” FedEx said.

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.

Canadian police and border officers seized nearly $8 million in opium found in two shipping containers at the Port of Vancouver and then swapped the drugs with a dummy shipment to let the dragnet continue.

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.

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.

A trucker could face life in prison after being charged with trafficking almost 200 pounds of meth, likely worth millions of dollars, from the U.S. to Canada.

Three suspects are charged with murder after the deadly shooting of an off-duty Mississippi state trooper who was moonlighting as a truck driver for USPS.

Bill provides added protection at truck stops, according to its main sponsor.

Authorities cite distracted driving in nine-vehicle Sunday crash that claimed three lives in Boone County.

A trio accused of massive drug smuggling allegedly illegally directed customs-controlled shipments away from logistics operators to “unknown” locations.

Maritime, air and overland trade routes into Europe are being piggybacked by criminal gangs deploying the latest digital supply chain technologies to help meet mushrooming demand for illegal drugs across the European Union (EU), according to a major new report examining the continent’s illicit drugs business. The 2019 EU Drug Markets Report by the EU […]

A spate of deadly trucking-related accidents has taken place around Australia over the last week. Truck rollovers were a major contributor to the death toll. There was also a range of other tragic accidents involving moving vehicles. In other Down Under Trucking news, a criminal trucker gets years in jail for killing another driver; hill descent apps; Freightways buys Big Chill.

Innocent third parties who get caught up in Australia with illegal drug logistics, such as employers and transport operators, do not appear to fear the threat of having their property seized by the authorities.

Truck driver Patrick Allen Boon must now serve nearly two decades in jail for beating his boss to death with a hammer and wrench in a two-stage attack.

Truck-borne freight is the most popular target for thieves, according to a new global study by cargo insurer TT Club and supply chain consultant BSI. Trucks and truckers face a variety of threats including firearm-bearing kidnappers and fake ‘police.’

The highways of Mexico continue to be risky for truckers as cargo thefts rose 6 percent for the first four months of 2019, according to the Mexico City-based National Chamber of Freight Transport (CANACAR). More than 4,130 crimes were committed against cargo transporters from January through March 2019, up from 3,899 crimes for the same […]

Case involving 8,800 pounds of undeclared products highlights the long-standing practice of sneaking lower-priced U.S. dairy products across the border.

After a series of high-profile scandals involving the dumping of asbestos-containing waste on Sydney streets, the local authorities have welcomed a series of guilty pleas and court-imposed jail time on offenders. Meanwhile, the authorities have increased the value of fines and lengthened jail sentences for transport-related asbestos crimes.

Even as the trucking industry struggles to identify new drivers, there is a segment of the U.S. population that is facing unemployment rates above 27% that are looking for jobs. Can felons fill the driver gap?