„Theft elevated 1,445 p.c from the primary quarter in 2022 to the primary quarter in 2024.“ —Kathleen Dasal, retired from the Ansonia industrial credit score bureau
Kathleen Dasal offered at this previous November’s annual convention of the Nationwide Affiliation of Small Trucking Corporations – and emphasised that vast enhance in cargo theft over these final years, aided and abetted by organized crime rings’ more and more refined use of our digital communications instruments to perpetuate all method of frauds on carriers, brokers and more and more shippers themselves. That’s as you’ll hear in immediately’s version of Overdrive Radio, that includes Dasal’s speak. She retains her toes firmly planted in small fleet points, and her presentation featured slides you’ll be able to obtain to observe alongside in full by way of this hyperlink.
I would advocate it, given this episode’s topic is an entirely acceptable option to proceed to kick off 2025, throughout which we’re anticipating FMCSA’s huge revamp of its registration system to lastly get off the bottom, and the id and double-brokering fraud subject continues to be one of many greatest difficulties in trucking, notably for small carriers and owner-operators working spot markets.
Obtain slides from Dasal’s anti-fraud presentation to observe alongside.
Within the podcast, Dasal provides a wide range of ideas and tips, methods to spot fraud in phishing emails and on fraudulent price cons and within the very voice on the cellphone who would possibly purport to be somebody you recognize, or at the least to be from an organization you recognize. For normal Overdrive readers, a whole lot of the anti-fraud measures Dasal speaks to may be refreshers, of a trend, but many share a central level which you could make a part of your New 12 months’s Resolutions for the enterprise this yr.
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In Kathleen Dasal’s phrases, „You have to simply take note of who your buyer is, and know who you are doing enterprise with.“
There’s rather a lot owner-operators can do in that regard, if you happen to’re not already working carefully with central, trusted brokers; leased to a good motor service; or doing direct enterprise with shipper prospects. Take a hear:
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**The WhatsmyDNS.web website-domain-age lookup.
**The „Iluminati“ hack of dealer DAT accounts and service accounts on the Amazon Relay system.
**Reporting on the commerce in MC numbers for spurious functions, and FMCSA steering on it.
**FMCSA’s steering on containing the harm after a hack.
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