The holiday season is a perfect storm of opportunity and incentive for cargo thieves. Extra freight is in transit to meet consumers’ surging demands. Storage facilities and warehouses are often short-staffed because of worker vacations. And the demand for stolen goods skyrockets during the holiday shopping season. It’s both easier and more profitable for criminals to go into overdrive during the holidays.
Particularly this year, people are more desperate than ever to make extra cash. Covid-related joblessness and medical bills have driven people to take risks they usually wouldn’t to make ends meet. This leads to not only more cargo theft from professional cargo thieves, but more and more “newbies” are entering the cargo theft market out of desperation and lack of options.