Loaded trailers sitting overnight, dock doors open through a shift change, and a fence line nobody walks after dark. Coverage from height, control at every gate, and operators who verify before anyone is called out.
Freight crime has shifted from opportunistic to selective. The counts below are confirmed thefts only, which makes them floors rather than totals — a load that is never claimed is never counted.
U.S. & Canada · CargoNet
$273,990per theft, 2025
the average value of a single confirmed cargo theft across the United States and Canada.
CargoNet · January 202660%rise in losses
the year-over-year increase in total cargo theft losses, to nearly $725 million, while the number of thefts rose 18%.
CargoNet · January 2026Canada · Équité Association
$239Mnever recovered
of the $531 million in trucks, trailers and cargo stolen across Canada over five years.
Équité Association · cargo report4 of 5top hotspots
of Canada's top cargo-theft hotspots sit in one metropolitan area, which is what makes the rest of the province look quiet until it is not.
Équité Association · 2019–2023North American figures from Verisk CargoNet's 2025 theft trends analysis (21 January 2026), covering the United States and Canada together: 2,646 confirmed cargo thefts, up 18%, with losses of nearly $725 million. Canadian five-year totals from Équité Association's Cargo & Heavy Equipment Theft Trend Report (June 2024). The two sources overlap and are never added together.
Doors are open, the floor is busy, and for twenty minutes nobody can say who is on the property. It is the easiest time of day to walk out with something, and the hardest to review afterwards.
Loaded trailers sit in the yard overnight because they have to. A camera on the building wall sees the first row and not the fence behind it.
An alarm that nobody verifies is a phone call to a manager at 2am, and a drive across town to find a raccoon. The useful question is not whether something moved, but whether anybody is actually there.
Drivers, cleaners, trades and agency staff all need to get in, and the list changes weekly. Keys do not change weekly.
Most sites do not need all of it. They need the parts that answer the way their own site fails.
Over the yard and the trailer line
Height is what covers a yard. One mast position sees the trailer line, the fence and the approach, and it moves when the yard does.
Docks, gates and the building line
Fixed cameras on the doors and the dock apron, recording continuously, with footage that can be pulled and handed over the same day.
Gates, dock doors and interior doors
Credentials rather than keys, so a carrier or a contractor can be removed the day they stop coming, with a record of every door used.
After the last shift
A trained operator verifies the detection, speaks over the site speakers, and escalates on the site’s own rules rather than guessing.
Gate control and interior rounds
When somebody has to check a driver, hold a gate or walk the floor during a shift, that is a licensed officer and not a camera.
Hardware is supplied and installed by ACS. Most existing IP camera systems can also be brought under monitoring after a compatibility review.
Several heads on one position covering the yard, the trailer line and the fence, rather than a row of cameras along a wall.
Continuous recording where the goods actually move: the doors, the apron and the lane a truck has to use.
Coverage down the aisles and over the pick faces, so a question about what happened on the floor has an answer that does not depend on who was on shift.
Ask what coverage your yard would need, and what the log would give you the morning after.
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Problem: a person detected on a monitored site, well after close.
Plan: the AI detection was verified by a trained operator, who then spoke to the person live over the site audio.
Outcome: the person left the property, and the incident report was filed before morning.
Yes, and the yard is usually where the value sits. Cameras on a mast cover the trailer line, the fence and the approach from one position, which is coverage no camera on the building wall can reach.
It depends on what has to happen when something is seen. Cameras and live operators detect, verify, speak over site audio and document. A licensed officer is what you add when someone has to control a gate, check a driver or walk the floor during a shift.
Yes. Access control at the gate and the dock doors records every credential used, and the record is yours to pull. Credentials can be changed the day a contractor, carrier or employee changes.
Yes. The same equipment, the same rules and the same reporting format can run at every site you operate, so one site does not end up with a different standard than another.
Both. ACS installs the camera and access hardware and can also bring most existing IP camera systems under monitoring after a compatibility review covering feed access, network uplink and zone coverage.
The operator verifies the detection on live cameras, speaks to the person over the site speakers where that is the instruction for the site, and follows the escalation the site has agreed to. Every event is documented and the footage is kept with the report.
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