Cargo theft is evolving rapidly, and today’s threats extend far beyond stolen trailers and unsecured freight. Organized criminal groups are increasingly combining cyber deception, identity fraud, operational manipulation, and physical theft tactics to exploit vulnerabilities across the transportation and logistics ecosystem. From fraudulent carrier identities and fake pickups to facility breaches and strategic cargo targeting, freight fraud has become a coordinated, multi-layered problem requiring a more connected industry response.
In this installment of the Freight Fraud Prevention Hub Quarterly Series, National Motor Freight Traffic Association, Inc.® (NMFTA)® staff and industry experts will explore how cyber and physical security risks are converging across the supply chain—and what organizations can do to better protect freight, facilities, operations, and customer trust.
This session will examine emerging cargo theft and freight fraud trends, how threat actors exploit gaps between systems and stakeholders, and why fragmented prevention strategies are no longer enough. Attendees will gain practical insight into how collaboration, intelligence sharing, layered security practices, and cross-functional coordination can help strengthen resilience against modern freight crime.
What you’ll learn:
- How modern freight criminals combine cyber, operational, and physical tactics to execute cargo theft and fraud schemes.
- Why disconnected security, operations, and fraud prevention strategies create vulnerabilities across the supply chain.
- What emerging threats organizations should monitor, including fraudulent pickups, identity misuse, facility vulnerabilities, and strategic cargo targeting.
- How layered security approaches, industry collaboration, and intelligence sharing can help reduce risk and improve freight resilience.
Who should attend:
- Fleet owners and carrier leadership;
- Brokers, 3PLs, and shipper operations teams;
- Security, fraud prevention, and risk management professionals;
- Directors of operations, IT, and compliance; and
- Platform and marketplace trust & safety leaders.
Why attend:
If freight fraud, cargo theft, or operational security risks impact your organization’s operations, customer trust, or financial exposure—and they do—this webinar will help you better understand how today’s threats extend far beyond isolated incidents. You’ll gain practical insight into how cyber deception, identity misuse, facility vulnerabilities, and operational gaps are being exploited across the freight ecosystem, and why layered security strategies, industry collaboration, and shared intelligence are critical to making freight fraud harder and less profitable.
Joe Ohr has more than two decades of experience in technical operations, customer success management, IT, customer support, and product support.
Currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for the NMFTA, he plays a pivotal role in helping to advance the industry through digitization, classification, and cybersecurity.
Marli Hall is the Director of Communications and Marketing at the NMFTA, where she leads strategic communication efforts to enhance the organization’s visibility and reputation within the freight transportation industry.
In this role, Marli oversees media relations, manages key messaging, and develops public relations campaigns that promote NMFTA’s initiatives, partnerships, and contributions to the sector.
She started with NMFTA in August 2022, previously serving as the director of communications and member services, and earlier as a communications specialist.
About the Freight Fraud Prevention Hub Quarterly Webinar Series
The Freight Fraud Prevention Hub (FFPH) Quarterly Webinar Series brings together trusted industry leaders to address freight fraud as the systemic, industry-wide issue it has become. Unlike siloed discussions that focus on individual incidents or isolated controls, this series takes a collective approach, connecting identity, operations, cybersecurity, classification, and digital standards, and expert knowledge from industry SMEs to help the industry understand how freight fraud really works and how it can be prevented.
Each session is education-first, practical, and designed to help the transportation ecosystem move from fragmented defenses to shared awareness and coordinated action.
This is not a product demo series. It’s an education-first forum designed to help the industry recognize fraud earlier, close operational gaps, and make freight fraud harder to execute—together.
