Cargo theft costs U.S. trucking $18 million a day and is ‘unlike anything our industry has faced before,’ logistics exec warns

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Highly organized criminal networks have turned cargo theft into a growing threat to the U.S. supply chain, according to Donna Lemm, chief strategy officer at trucking and intermodal company IMC Logistics.

In a Washington Post op-ed on Monday, she cited numerous instances of major heists, including more than $15 million worth of electronics, $1 million of tequila, and $400,000 of Costco lobsters.