Tells the story
Every party, every handoff, every message on a load, logged as it happens. The real journey, on the record. Not the paperwork version.
The Freight Fraud Epidemic
The danger isn't the freight that goes missing. It's the freight that still delivers.
Food loads get compromised in transit, changing hands without a trail. When contamination surfaces, the blame lands on farms and manufacturers who never saw it happen.
The problem
Fraud in freight doesn't steal the load. It borrows it.
This isn't hypothetical: organized fraud networks take over loads mid-transit and move them through their own channels, chasing margin, not protocol. The product still arrives. What happened along the way doesn't.
01
The Cover Story
A mid-transit email: the truck broke down. A repair shop is named, delivery moves a day, every document is clean.
02
The Tell
The same email shows up on another load. Same shop, same story. And the shop never existed.
03
Off the Record
Seals cut, protocols thrown out. The load unloaded, added to whatever freight moves cheapest, then re-sealed and put back on a truck.
04
The Delivery
Clean paperwork. Load delivered. No record of whose hands the food passed through in between.
This exact pattern ran through one of our own food loads.
The missing layerOne fraudulent load is a mystery. A ledger of them is a pattern.
Why it matters
The wrong people pay. The real problem stays on the road.
When contaminated food reaches the shelf, the investigation follows the paperwork, and the paperwork says transit was clean. So the recall, the shutdown, and the reputational damage land on the farm or the manufacturing plant, for contamination that happened on the road.
And because the trail never leads back to them, the network that compromised the load is still running loads the same day. Nothing stops. That's why this grows every year: the freight always shows up, and the fraud never gets found.
1,500%
growth in strategic cargo theft (fraud-based freight theft) since 2021
+47%
rise in reported food & beverage thefts in 2025, the largest of any commodity
$35B
estimated annual cost of freight theft to the US economy
American Trucking Associations · Verisk CargoNet
Securing the communication layer of freight
A chain of custody for the food supply.
Nearly all freight fraud enters the same way: through the calls and messages that move a load. TogoTrek's communication governance layer tells the story, catches the anomalies, and its audit record traces contamination back to the carriers and shippers responsible.
Catches the anomalies
An unverified voice in the load's communication. The same message pattern across unrelated loads. A facility that doesn't exist. Flagged the moment they appear, not weeks later.
Traces it back
When contamination surfaces, the immutable audit record points to transit, not the farm, and traces it to the carriers and shippers responsible.
TogoTrek works behind the systems the industry already uses. Nothing about anyone's day-to-day changes. And it's built to protect the free market of freight: open to every honest participant, from national shippers to single-truck owner-operators. It's not a gate. It's a seal of trust.
Food safety shouldn't end at the loading dock.
If you care about what happens to food between the plant and the shelf, we'd love to talk.