🎣 Can Fraud Be Stopped?

FreightCaviar Weekly Recap. From the DOT cutting Mexican flights, to the Q3 freight fraud report numbers - here are this week’s most talked-about freight stories.

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🚨 Cargo Theft Can't Be Stopped?

This week’s Reddit standout struck a nerve: cargo theft isn’t a bug, it’s the system working as designed. The redditor expressed their opinion on how scammers buy active MC authorities from desperate carriers, haul high-value loads under “clean” paperwork, and vanish before anyone blinks.

Their point? No amount of tech or ELD data can prove who’s really behind the wheel. Until the FMCSA cracks down on MC resales and verifies ownership, theft will stay part of the freight DNA.

The biggest takeaway: Don’t just trust the paperwork, trust the person. Slow down your vetting before someone speeds off with your freight.

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✈ Turbulence in the Air

The U.S. Transportation Department is cutting 13 routes for Mexican airlines over alleged violations of a 2015 air transport deal.

Secretary Sean Duffy didn’t mince words: “Until Mexico stops the games and honors its commitments, we will continue to hold them accountable.” 

The order halts all passenger-cargo flights between the U.S. and Mexico’s new Felipe Ángeles Airport, and freezes expansion out of Benito Juárez International. A proposed ban on belly cargo could tighten the squeeze even more.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum called the move “groundless,” signaling yet another brewing diplomatic face-off.

🚔 FreightCaviar Story of the Week: Q3 Freight Fraud Trends

Our feature on Highway’s Q3 Freight Fraud Index exposes a freight industry under siege. The numbers: 605,728 fake emails and 62,531 spoofed calls blocked in just one quarter.

The fraud battlefield has shifted: criminals are moving from scamming carriers to infiltrating brokerage systems, exploiting urgency and weak digital defenses. Highway’s Michael Caney warns that organized networks now recruit insiders and even pay carriers to aid in phishing schemes.

With attacks originating from 40 countries, led by India, Serbia, and Pakistan, and U.S. hot spots like California, Texas, and Florida, this report makes one thing clear, freight fraud has gone global, digital, and disturbingly personal.

Read the full Q3 2025 Freight Fraud Index Report on Highway.com.

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🎨 Mark It Up

Sometimes the smallest details shout the loudest. On LinkedIn, Nathan Halberstam posted about a truck spotted outside the Port of New York & New Jersey had its DOT, MC, and “Driver using Elogs” scrawled in marker on the door.

Funny at first glance, sure. But as the post points out, it’s more than a cosmetic issue, "it’s about mindset." CDL accidents are climbing and seeing compliance being treated like an afterthought says a lot about where safety culture stands, and how much further the industry needs to go to increase the standards.

If the visible details look careless, what about the ones we can’t see?

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