Sep 17, 2026 · 40 min · 12 segments
We sit down with John Lynch, senior vice president of Federation Relations with the American Trucking Associations and president of the Trucking Cares Foundation, to talk about advocacy, public…
And there was a coalition of some entities and we really got involved with them and some would say to kind of took over the coalition so it's the leadership of the coalition to really bring some more cohesiveness but it's the rail maritime trucking all the different modes of freight transportation coming together at the insurance industry to go to congress and say we need a system that whereby if something happens at the local level that's the first place it's going to get reported but it's mobile.
They don't have, one, the resources or time to dedicate to trying to track something that left their jurisdiction 10 minutes after it was heisted.
And so we wanted to be able to have some type of system in place where local, state, federal can immediately be alerted of when cargo theft occurs.
Because the level of sophistication of cargo theft that we're seeing now is a global thing.
The old snatch and grab, hijack a trailer kind of thing Those days are long gone.
So we want to make sure that there are systems in place so that they can track free immediately because you really don't have very long before it's on a ship and
And, you know, just doing the research on some of the questions I'm going to answer, you know, just like a layman.
I thought it was snatch and grab like you're talking about, but it's way more sophisticated than that, where people are actually being a part of cargo theft and not realizing it, you know, delivering goods from one side to the other, just like you would a legitimate operation.
And there was a coalition of some entities and we really got involved with them and some would say to kind of took over the coalition so it's the leadership of the coalition to really bring some more cohesiveness but it's the rail maritime trucking all the different modes of freight transportation coming together at the insurance industry to go to congress and say we need a system that whereby if something happens at the local level that's the first place it's going to get reported but it's mobile.
They don't have, one, the resources or time to dedicate to trying to track something that left their jurisdiction 10 minutes after it was heisted.
And so we wanted to be able to have some type of system in place where local, state, federal can immediately be alerted of when cargo theft occurs.
Because the level of sophistication of cargo theft that we're seeing now is a global thing.
The old snatch and grab, hijack a trailer kind of thing Those days are long gone.
So we want to make sure that there are systems in place so that they can track free immediately because you really don't have very long before it's on a ship and
And, you know, just doing the research on some of the questions I'm going to answer, you know, just like a layman.
I thought it was snatch and grab like you're talking about, but it's way more sophisticated than that, where people are actually being a part of cargo theft and not realizing it, you know, delivering goods from one side to the other, just like you would a legitimate operation.
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