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Hello everybody, welcome to the Underground Studio.
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I'm down here giving veterans a voice.
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I'm trucker mouth and you're on the roadshow.
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Welcome everybody today. Well, on a roadshow here, we
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talk about issues in the transportation industry and how
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it affects America. I used to say just the American
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trucking industry, but I broaden my horizons to the whole
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transfer. The realm of transportation
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today where the topic is cargo theft, which is one of the
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biggest topics in the news right now.
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It's got so bad. It was a gang, a gang of thugs
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or masterminds. It's that advanced.
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It ain't just people cutting locks anymore and grabbing
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freight, you know, doing smash and grab.
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And, you know, the more I looked into this, the more that it's
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bigger than I thought. It's worse than I thought.
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So let's get on the road. Swear targets or trucks or
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trains, creamers are still in cargo disrupting the US supply
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chain. And everywhere imaginable,
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they're disrupting the supply chain.
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And when you disrupt the supply chain, you know what happens?
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You slow down production and it affects the economy and you know
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what happened then it comes down to us, to consumer and you know,
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it's got that bad. It's got that out of hand.
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And and then that band did wow. And it's a lot worse than I
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thought. Homeland Security estimates 35
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billion is lost in Carter with death each year.
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That's what, AB 35 billion And man, that's just unheard of,
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man. We can't have it.
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We can't have it. When I was driving truck, Well,
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I'm back in the, I think the late 60s and 70s, you had a lot
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of people physically hijacking trucks and or stealing them.
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Yeah, hijacking them or stealing them.
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And that's about as sophisticated as it was.
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And, and now it, it's just, it's just, I mean, you have, you
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know, everybody, you got people from different countries tapping
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in to the logistical supply chain here in the US You know,
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the whole world's intent on destroying us.
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And, and we have to, we have to really do something about this.
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A wide range of crimes include hijacked trucks, rail cars,
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identity theft, double brokering, which is a big one.
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That's a double cybersecurity voluntarily and reroute schemes.
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So all them are different ways to steal freight and it's just
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out of hand. It just it can't be having this
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increased threat of strategic cargo threat is threatening our
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supply chains. They're hurting American
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business and consumers, which is us.
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So they know a lot who's doing it, but they think organized
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crimes doing it, they're organized.
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Organized crime units are operating from not only within
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the US but also internationally from Armenia, which I ain't even
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sure what the hell more Armenia, Colombia and Mexico.
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I know it's South America and targeting high value goods to
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steal and finance their legal activities such as drug
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smuggling. So they're selling, they're
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hijacking these trucks, they're getting the freak selling it and
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they're using that to finance their criminal empires.
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Oh boy, small business trucker needs protection from increased
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inches of fraud freight. They target the small, the small
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business trucker or the owning owner operator because they
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don't have a lot of times they don't have the resources that
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your big, your big carriers have.
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They don't have the resources and the sophistication and, and
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and all that. So they're targeting that
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throwers on the rise in the truck and this criminals have
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discovered many vulnerabilities within our industry.
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Yeah, they just, it's vulnerabilities.
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They they, they just, they just have ways of man.
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If I was a small business trucker or our opera, I'd really
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go and look out. Small Business Trucker lacks the
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resources to prevent scams originating overseas or
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authority to issue brokers comply with existing
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transparency regulations. Like I said, the small business
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trucker, the only operator doesn't have a lot of time.
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The sophistication and the software and all that that,
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that, that the big, the big, the big carriers have and then
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they're and they're being targeted more.
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They have they're implementing a lot of things, a lot of things
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here that to ensure brokers comply with existing
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transparency regulations. There are systems regulations in
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place that can help reverse the growing trend of fraud.
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But the federal government is strong to provide struggling to
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provide the support shippers, murder carriers and brokers
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need. Yeah, it's got to go on, you
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know, a federal level here. Well, it is.
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It's got to be because your commercial driver licenses is
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fairly is federally it it's across the board.
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It's a federal license. I mean, it's within your state,
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but it's they're all linked together.
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All these states. You can't go to another state
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and get it on the CDL like you could, you know, 30 years ago or
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20 years ago. And you know, with all these see
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back in the day, they didn't have all these satellite and
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beacons on the trailers and the tractors and track them
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everywhere. You didn't hear, you know, it
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takes it took them a while to crack this thing, crack the
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codes on these because you know, these, these, these carriers,
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they can tell where they can track.
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They can tell where their where their tractor trailer is within,
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within 100 feet or something like that.
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And I'm really surprised that they can that they can.
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I'm really surprised they got the sophistication too, to get
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around that. And there's there's people or
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small business truckers are going out of business.
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You know what 1 episode where, where they, where they deliver a
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load, you know, to the wrong person or, or they, they somehow
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they got schemed to do it like that double brokered.
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See, when you're double brokered is you got a fraudulent trucking
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company, exceptional loads from a broker.
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Now a broker is a broker who sells he don't really sell it.
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He he issues to load to the trucking company and gives you
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all the information in your pickup numbers, your times,
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your, your delivery appointment numbers, all that.
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And what happened was these fraudulent trucking companies
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this this is really big time. What they do then is this
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fraudulent trucking company will broker it out their sells.
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That's why it's called double brokering.
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And the broker told guys say we got to load, pick it up in
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Philadelphia, PA here and say it's going to Oklahoma City.
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And what they'll do is they'll throw it out there on the load
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board with big numbers, you know, paying $500 more than it,
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it normally would and all this and that.
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And when that trucker delivers that load, OK, the, the, the
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broker, I have a lot of information on this man.
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The broker pays the person he originally assigned the load to,
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gave the load to, he pays them and that fraudulent broker
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company, trucker company doesn't pay that, that driver nothing.
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So all his fuel, all his time going out there.
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What's OK city from here Pay our miles, 1000 miles, but about 100
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miles probably he'll get nothing and all his for all his fuel and
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everything, nothing. And then his insurance company,
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I don't know, they, they, it's just terrible.
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And just one hit like that, you know, just say, say they, they,
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they, they sucker them into, they're going somewhere to a
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fraudulent warehouse. They ain't delivered this load.
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Well, you know, the next thing, the other insurance company, you
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know, the people come back on their insurance company, their
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insurance company pays whatever they can.
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And they, and they, that Trump company's out of business.
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You're talking, you know, a hundred $200,000 load.
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And that's just terrible, man. We're really going to watch it
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out there. If I was, if I was a small
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business trucker or, or operator or to anybody anyway.
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Small trucking businesses are both the most vulnerable to
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fraud and the least likely to be able to recover from an
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incident. Most commonly, motor carriers
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are held responsible for loss of cargo to defraud with costs
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ranging from 10s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars
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per incident. And now all comes back on the
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carrier. Truckers are targeted by
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scammers posing legitimate brokers.
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Many small truck companies fall victim to double brokering.
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This is when criminals poses. Motor carriers will be talked
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about to acquire loads from brokers, then poses brokers
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looking for truckers to complete the haul.
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When the freight is delivered to the legitimate broker issues a
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payment to the fraudulent actor and a trucker who actually
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hauled the cargo is left high and dry with nothing and he eats
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everything. I don't know how many small
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business truckers can afford that.
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Nobody, even small fleets can't. Even small fleets can't.
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They can't absorb bad. And then also what they do is
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other than double broker and they got they, they, they
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skilled, they steal identities from, they steal identities from
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motor carriers. And, and they and they and they,
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and they reroute them. They, they get, they reroute
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trucks. I'm telling you something, man,
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it it's really bad. It's already a tough industry
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and now you got this. So it's.
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OK, you got an incident right here where American Dream turned
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in a nightmare when some unscrupulous criminal stole our
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identity. They stole the identity of of
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Tangier Logistics and and Double Diamond Transport by capitalize
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on our good name. They tarnished our reputation.
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We spent over a decade to earn criminals posed a Tangler
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logistics through a fake e-mail account and brokered loads to
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unsuspecting motor carriers who delivered the cargo while the
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scammers pocketed the money. And one example, the criminals
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pocketed a load of energy drinks worth more than $100,000.
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That's his energy drinks load. Energy drinks.
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What's what's a can of Red Bull go for?
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I mean, I don't drink the stuff, but what's can of Red Bull go
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for 3-4 dollars and you got 26 pallets in a truck, 60,000 cans
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of Red Bull. Do the math.
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Maybe truck or mouth hijack a truck somehow, but he needs the
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money all right. So the Federal Motor Care State
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Administration, the FM S FM CS A issued a report about illegal
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broker activity in in the trucking industry.
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In the report Black, the FM SCSA and it lacked data to determine
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fraud negatively affected safety and that it didn't have
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statutory authority to assess civil penalties on violations.
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So your Federal motor car safety administration kind of has their
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hands tied looks like on this and but they're, but they're,
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they're they're coming up with stuff.
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They're coming up with stuff here, man.
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Urge your OK household goods consumer protection OK, all
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these different apps and committees and subcommittees
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were formed. It's mind boggling.
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And a lot of these things, you know, for, for transportation
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industry each year, household goods shipping, Shipping
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Consumer Protection Act, the Household Goods Shipping
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Consumer Protection Act, all these acts 2 we're introducing
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to the the bill to restore Federal Motor Cash
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Administration's authority to issue several penalties against
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bad hackers. The legislation also require
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brokers, freight floors and carriers to provide a valid
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business address to the FMCSA before requiring operating
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authority. Yeah, the industry so tight,
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industry so tight. Begin with.
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I don't see how how they're getting around this.
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Well, it's time for a commercial break and then we come back.
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It's going to be more on, more on the, the, the, the, the, the
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theft of freight. All right, when we come back.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Trump Amount
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Show. We're discussing the epidemic of
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cargo theft here in America and abroad.
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It's happening all over the world.
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Other ways, I think continue of the combat this, this, this
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cargo theft include closing broker bond RuPaul's improving
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and renaming the national consumer complaint database and
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established a new registration system.
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So they're on this. I mean, they have to be, it's,
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it's that bad where they're, they're, they're making making
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up things to, to to combat it. And, and, and it's, and it's,
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it's like I said, it's just worse than I ever, I ever
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thought, man. You know, your three big states
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are California #1 for cargo theft, which represents about
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half of it. Texas is the big two and
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Illinois is the big three. Where these stuff's happening at
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the big one. Philadelphia's probably it's
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been happening down there. I'm, I'm not far from Aaron.
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It's been in the news. So the February 2024 Kentucky
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police include an 18 month investigation that resulted in
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several arrests from a cargo theft ring alleged response for
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$10 million of stolen freight. And that's in Kentucky.
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I mean, you know, and a whole lot happens in Kentucky.
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According to the data from Cargo Net, the estimated average value
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per theft increase in 2024, rising from $187,895 in 2023 to
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$202,364.00, with an estimated loss of nearly forty, $455
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million. So these, these, these loads are
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getting more expensive because everybody's getting more
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expensive and, and it it's, you know, 100 and $78195 to $202,000
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per per load that they're stealing, except they're,
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they're targeting things. When I drove Chuck off, I didn't
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really hold a lot of high. They're not a cardboard and
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spring order and I don't know, hauling some pharmaceuticals
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around there for a while. They were high dollar loads, but
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wow, that's how much that's how much one loaded someone would
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have to absorb if they they got their trailers going and always
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put, you know, a kingpin lock on your trailer at least that and
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and kingpin lock goes around the kingpin where you where you hook
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into the to the trailer at and in the back put, you know, put
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some kind of good lock that is real hard to to get through like
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them shipping container locks. I've seen a lot of that Boy,
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they were they were hard to get off even with a key.
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These are thieves are seeking more bang for the buck by
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targeting riskier high value loads.
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And it's not just whole loads drafter.
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These in 2024 saw criminals take their tactics to a new level.
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This February overhaul, which is a, an outfit that looks into
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this cargo thump thing reported on developing modus operator for
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the the pilferage of cost dense consumer electronics while in
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transit. So these trucks are only at
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brief stops such as traffic signals.
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And if maybe they stopped at a, a place to go to the bathroom at
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a somewhere. And, and then they, they,
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they're following these loads. OK, They they're following these
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loads out out of the the warehouse where you pick them up
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or distribution center and they're following these loads
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and it's just crazy. Now everyone needs to do
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something about this. If you see something going on
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like that, if you see a truck and a red light and people in
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the back throwing boxes out, obviously that's not supposed to
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be happening. Like I said, everybody needs to
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do their part in this because it's affected supply chain the
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whole way down to the consumer, the economy.
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That's how bad I said. I never thought it was just bad
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until I started looking into this.
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OK, man. Yeah, yeah.
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So I mean legislative help. The continued rise in corporate
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has has gained attention from both state and fair lawmakers,
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though of course it has it better.
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Most recent Arkansas acted to curb what legislators said is a
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pervasive problem in the state by increasing the penalties for
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the convicted of cargo theft. Yeah, they did.
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They did crack down and give them harsh penalties.
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The new legislation, which assigned the law by Governor
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders in March, adds up to 10 years to descend.
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The venue was cut out of the crime, so whatever the sentence
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was, they added ten years to it. In Arkansas, that's Sarah
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Huckabee as she's been in the news.
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November 2023, N Carolina took a similar course of action to
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address cargo theft by increasing penalties for those
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convicted based on the value of the property stolen.
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So the higher value of the load that's stolen or the property
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stolen, you're going to jail. Longer attempts have been made
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to receive legislative help from the federal level as well.
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This past June, Representative David Valede Valedeo, Republican
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Republican California, introduced the Safeguarding Our
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Supply Chain Act. Like I said, all these different
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acts and legislation and all these committees, it's mind
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boggling, which so often improve communications between federal
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agencies and state and liberal law enforcement, particularly
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regions experiencing high volumes and organized crime.
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Well, yeah, they got to coordinate.
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They got to coordinate on this man.
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It was actually, this was in the news.
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I just was watching this Fox and it was on Fox about the cargo
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theft. Oh, boy, I tell you, this is
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bad. OK, so another bill would help
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the Federal Motor Carrier state administrator fight back against
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fraud. Has been introduced to the House
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and Senate. Delaware, Delaware, Illinois
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homes, Norton DDC. What the hell is that Democrat
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something And Republican Mike Enzo as as implicated the
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Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection Act.
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In the House. We're implementing this
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Household Goods Shipping Protection Act.
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See here we go. Where are we at here?
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Yeah, the Household Goods Shipping Consumer Protection
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Act. So the act this and that, do
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something about it, took them out.
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Don't like it Don't have her down and call right there.
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Hello. OK, man, so.
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OK, Tammy Duck induced efforts in the Senate.
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The bill would restore and codify FMSC as authority to
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issue a civil penalty. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You said that. Provide valid business address
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before acquiring them on authority.
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Yeah, just don't give an authority to anybody.
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Look into who they are. So under siege. 2024 broad
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report shows increase in all type of fraud.
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Yeah, we know that. Oh, here we go with Jess.
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And it's stated fraud of the Industry 24 report, the
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Transportation Intermediary Association.
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Transportation Intermediary Association has shown an
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increase in all types of fraud, which is forcing broker comers
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to spend more time, money and resource to combat the problem.
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Because a lot of times these brokers, they're out too,
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they're issuing these loads to people and a fraudulent company,
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it, it goes and they never see it again.
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And they're, they're, they're out.
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I mean, they got it. They got a, you know, what's
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it's on them. Then they got to pay for it.
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Transportation Intermediate Transportation Intermediaries
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Association president, CEO and Rank said in a statement.
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When people think of fraud and supply chain, they only see what
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happening to a business. They're not seeing the trickle
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down effect of consumer and economy.
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Fraud is $1,000,000 problem that needs to be addressed today.
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Yes, it needs to be addressed today because it's affecting us.
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It's, it's fact. It's that bad.
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It's that bad of a, of a, of an epidemic that, that it, that
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it's, that it's affecting the consumer.
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Five types of fraud, plague in the industry, cargo theft,
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financial theft. I don't know if a broker scams,
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EG identity theft, interim employee theft, which inside
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jobs. Oh yeah.
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Oh hell yeah. They're selling information to
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people. Well, he yeah.
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And you know, you got an inside job, you got a, a guy who's at
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the the, you know, head of shipping at a place or dock
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supervisor, you got everything he needs to to to sell you that
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load. The most common type of fraud
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reported by survey was broker scams.
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Like I told you about the double brokering followed by e-mail
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spoofing and identity theft. So that's that's the main cargo
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depth is at an exponential rate rising an exponential rate truck
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amount ain't got the the best wording here.
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According to report it increased by 600% between N22 and March 23
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truck Rd. Flake is the most vulnerable
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target of fraud. Electronic solar patterns and
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household goods are the most commonly stolen on cargo High
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dollar sheet. Yeah, there a whole lot of high
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dollar stuff I don't believe well jewelry at time for QVC,
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they're holding loads of jewelry from 11 QVC down in the bottom
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Virginia to where QVC is outside of Philadelphia.
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What was that University? University City is the name of
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that area something like that industry city or something like
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that. I don't know.
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But we we delivered their truck loads of truck loads of jewelry
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actually. And they came in these real big
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bag, like burnt out bags. And that had that had their lock
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on from from the time you left until you until the time you
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delivered. And when you delivered, you
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delivered to sit inside these walls and they they unlocked the
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lock and you back then you didn't get out of your truck.
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They brought everything to you. Then you got the hell out of
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there. So, yeah, that was that.
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But I mean, not not on a daily basis, man.
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Truck them out. Truck them out was just a
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regular runner. He wasn't no one special here,
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boy. California appears to be the
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fraud hot hotbed in the United States.
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Nearly half of all fraud identified by the Transportation
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Intermediaries Association. Intermediaries Association
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organized in the Golden State. 9% was a distant second,
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followed by Illinois 5. Like I said, it's it's, it's,
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it's, it's California, Texas and then Illinois are the big three.
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They're the big three. Well, hey, everybody, you know
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what? We're at the end of the road
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here. I got so much information.
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I'm not doing their show on this.
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My next show is going to be on cargo theft, the the rise of
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cargo theft here. And how is it affecting how it's
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affecting the US and the consumer?
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Thanks for coming along on the ride on the road with Trucker
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Man. See you next week Saturday at
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