Indeed. Another tidbit is this: Inventing a fake trucking company is easy, he said, as is impersonating a legitimate one. The only people in the shipping indus

Indeed. Another tidbit is this: Inventing a fake trucking company is easy, he said, as is impersonating a legitimate one. The only people in the shipping industry responsible for verifying truckers are brokers, who connect customers with trucking companies. Wadhwani looked into vetting practices at a major brokerage several years ago and asked the company to describe its process. An em­ployee said, “We ask the trucking company to send documents, we pick them up off the fax, and we file them away. We don’t look at them, we don’t read them.” So it seems the industry is very lackadaisical as a whole in terms of security practices. Vetting people costs money.