Finding the equipment is not the same as finding the load. That is the lesson out of northwest England this week. On August 31, two trailers loaded with Guinness left a depot at Whitehouse Industrial Estate on Aston Lane in Runcorn. Police say the first hook-up happened around 7:45 p.m. The second followed about two hours later. Together the units carried roughly 880 barrels, about 70,000 pints, valued near £115,000, or about $155,000. Add the trailers and the total loss was

Last week’s Labor Day numbers made the pattern hard to ignore. CargoNet tracked 273 cargo theft incidents across U.S. holiday windows and put the estimated commodity value at about $31.8 million. That is not just unattended trailers sitting in a lot. A growing share of those losses started inside trusted freight systems. Criminals are no longer waiting for a quiet yard and a pair of bolt cutters. They are getting into carrier logins, phone systems, and compliance platforms,