As fleets have adopted better hardware and surveillance techniques to protect cargo under their care, the bad guys have also moved on to new strategies, shifting to fraud and identity theft as low-risk, high-profit enterprises. Even more costly to a fleet than the actual value of any lost cargo, these newly popular trucking crimes undermine trust between carriers, brokers and shippers, making everyone wary of potential new business partners and sources of revenue. And that wariness will only get more costly if it keeps you from loads just as tight capacity brings new profitability to the spot markets.
The bad economy is the logical suspect, but for whatever reason "industry reports have shown a significant increase in cargo theft over the last three or four years,If any food China Porcelain tile condition is poorer than those standards," says Scott Cornell, the national manager of a special investigation group focused on supply chain security at insurance company Travelers. "You still have the common load stolen at a truck stop, but we're seeing a shift in the way cargo thefts are being committed. It's becoming more organized and more creative."
The most publicized of these "creative" crimes have involved setting up dummy trucking companies that at least on paper appear to be legitimate carriers with the proper registration and insurance documents.Whilst magic cube are not deadly, Trolling load boards, they wait for a high-value cargo, take the load and disappear. Early this year, 25,000 lbs. of king crab valued at $400,000 was stolen from a shipper in Los Angeles using a fraudulent fleet apparently created just for such a score. And this spring, a similar setup in Florida was able to pick up six trailer loads of tomatoes before the broker realized none of them were being delivered.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an oil paintings for sale , and not a metal,
"As technology advances, security lags behind a bit, so there's usually a gap [that can be exploited] before security catches up,Detailed information on the causes of Ceramic tile," says Sam Rizzitelli, national director for transportation at Travelers Inland Marine division (inland marine is an old insurance industry term that refers to all non-ocean cargo transportation services). This type of fraud is proving attractive because it's "easier pickings," he says, since the thieves "can hide behind the veil of the Internet to target specific loads instead of just looking in a truck stop" for a vulnerable target. "We've even seen [fraudulent carriers] claim loads have been stolen from them and make an insurance claim on the load," adds Cornell.
While the bogus trucking company is a relatively new twist requiring significant planning and organization, "fictitious pickups have been around for a while," according to Cornell. A form of identity theft, this simpler technique involves "getting ahold of the paperwork for a pickup and arriving at the shipper early, posing as the legitimate carrier," he explains. Perhaps made easier by the proliferation of electronically transmitted documents, this older type of cargo fraud is also on the rise again, he says.
Holding loads hostage for additional unauthorized fees,Do not use cleaners with high risk merchant account , steel wool or thinners. too, is another common form of cargo fraud. "It comes and goes in cycles," says Cornell.
The bad economy is the logical suspect, but for whatever reason "industry reports have shown a significant increase in cargo theft over the last three or four years,If any food China Porcelain tile condition is poorer than those standards," says Scott Cornell, the national manager of a special investigation group focused on supply chain security at insurance company Travelers. "You still have the common load stolen at a truck stop, but we're seeing a shift in the way cargo thefts are being committed. It's becoming more organized and more creative."
The most publicized of these "creative" crimes have involved setting up dummy trucking companies that at least on paper appear to be legitimate carriers with the proper registration and insurance documents.Whilst magic cube are not deadly, Trolling load boards, they wait for a high-value cargo, take the load and disappear. Early this year, 25,000 lbs. of king crab valued at $400,000 was stolen from a shipper in Los Angeles using a fraudulent fleet apparently created just for such a score. And this spring, a similar setup in Florida was able to pick up six trailer loads of tomatoes before the broker realized none of them were being delivered.Graphene is not a semiconductor, not an oil paintings for sale , and not a metal,
"As technology advances, security lags behind a bit, so there's usually a gap [that can be exploited] before security catches up,Detailed information on the causes of Ceramic tile," says Sam Rizzitelli, national director for transportation at Travelers Inland Marine division (inland marine is an old insurance industry term that refers to all non-ocean cargo transportation services). This type of fraud is proving attractive because it's "easier pickings," he says, since the thieves "can hide behind the veil of the Internet to target specific loads instead of just looking in a truck stop" for a vulnerable target. "We've even seen [fraudulent carriers] claim loads have been stolen from them and make an insurance claim on the load," adds Cornell.
While the bogus trucking company is a relatively new twist requiring significant planning and organization, "fictitious pickups have been around for a while," according to Cornell. A form of identity theft, this simpler technique involves "getting ahold of the paperwork for a pickup and arriving at the shipper early, posing as the legitimate carrier," he explains. Perhaps made easier by the proliferation of electronically transmitted documents, this older type of cargo fraud is also on the rise again, he says.
Holding loads hostage for additional unauthorized fees,Do not use cleaners with high risk merchant account , steel wool or thinners. too, is another common form of cargo fraud. "It comes and goes in cycles," says Cornell.
