Comment / Your tracking system is now a weapon

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There is a particular kind of irony when the tool you bought to stop cargo theft is the thing that makes the theft invisible. That is where the North American freight industry finds itself in 2026: investing billions in GPS-based track-and-trace while criminals exploit the same satellite infrastructure to make stolen loads look like they’re still on the road.

The American Transportation Research Institute estimates the annualized direct and indirect cost of cargo theft to the industry at between ...