Freight fraud has become one of the most persistent operational problems in transportation, and at the Descartes Innovation Forum, Descartes outlined a series of updates that bring more carrier-vetting, tracking, and fraud-detection data together across MyCarrierPortal and MacroPoint.
The bigger takeaway is that fraud prevention is moving earlier in the process and continuing further into execution. Rather than relying primarily on checks after a load has been tendered, Descartes is bringing carrier identity, insurance, equipment, tracking history, lane history, and real-time location data together to give users more context before a load moves and while it is in transit.
Tracking History Becomes Part of Carrier Vetting
Within MyCarrierPortal, users can see risk assessments, insurance information, recent carrier activity, and MacroPoint tracking intelligence. That…
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