When you say the work ‘hacker’ people think of computers, but trucking companies are being hacked, too. The way that people do this is to hack into the government’s Website list of trucking companies that are legal and approved. They replace the phone number and address of the legitimate company with a fake one and they take the calls and arrange to deliver the loads. Then they contract with a real trucker to deliver. After deliver they get paid, they pocket the cash, and they disappear.

Some Russian immigrants did this not too long ago, and it took them three years to get caught! They made around $500,000 during that time and they seemed to assume that no one was ever going to find out what they were doing.

By not paying their contractors, though, too many people were wondering what was going on a little too often. This was especially true when the legitimate truckers went to the company they thought they had delivered for and tried to get payment.