Grace Sharkey was working as a freight broker in 2018, when she had found a truck to haul a $60,000 load of tires from Los Angeles to Alaska. But something strange happened after the cargo got picked up. The driver started going to the opposite corner of the country – to Miami. Someone was trying to steal the load, and Sharkey was determined to stop it.

This week’s episode tells the story of how Sharkey and her colleagues foiled the cargo theft. We explore how the crime itself happened nowhere near the truck itself. Instead, the criminals engaged in the practice of double-brokering to attempt to steal the load and pocket the money.

FreightWaves journalists Nate Tabak and Clarissa Hawes co-host the episode. They interview Sharkey, who recently joined FreightWaves as a reporter.  

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