The biggest EXOTIC CAR THEFT scam of all time!!!

[@rareexoticvehicles]

I dispatch loads for my buyers all the time. I'd say somewhere between 50-70% of the time the truck that shows up has a different MC/DOT/Company Name on it than what I booked. I ALWAYS ask to be cert holder, call their insurance, verify the truck is on they policy by VIN, and ask for photos of the truck/trailer before it arrives. I've probably turned away 30% of the trucks that arrive because of this. They wanna lie and waste my time? I'll waste theirs. Too many "brokers" have no idea who they are dispatching. Super important to do this due diligence. Also, if you put an Airtag in the car the driver will likely be notified that their is an Airtag following their location by their phone, so they will know you are tracking them.

[@clintmiller88]

This is why you put 2 air tags in the car

[@007mradio]

Spot on, dispatching and getting cars moved has been a real headache last 3-4 years. Almost always double brokered, different company names, dot/mc number. Guys fresh over the border drivong these hot shots. One guy recently came, he had 3 different names on the truck!!! I was really blown away. They say they use sacrificial company name and shut down llc's fast to not pay fines issued during inspection. What a joke!

[@russelljacob7955]

@@rareexoticvehicles Great advice. Not near Atlanta are you? Be great to see you do a vid on shipping! Am sure you got tales to tell.

[@rareexoticvehicles]

@@russelljacob7955 I'm only 3 hours away! 😎

[@rareexoticvehicles]

@@russelljacob7955 only a few hours away 😎 got car and racing stories for days

[@ChaseActual]

Cop here. Spent a bunch of time chasing stolen vehicles. Great advice, Ed. However, Your first step should be to immediately report the car stolen in your local jurisdiction so they can enter the vehicle stolen in the NCIC database. No agency in this country will help you unless your vehicle is "officially" listed as stolen in that database. That will save a TON of time, which is critical in recovering a stolen car in a situation like this.

[@tfrogginhfroggin]

Excellent. Based on your experience, do you recommend a good tracking option like LoJack or something similar to help locate a vehicle? Something useful to law enforcement that allows search warrants with little delay.

[@ChaseActual]

@ Nobody uses LoJack anymore. Some factory options like GM OnStar can easily be disabled by someone who knows what they are doing. If I owned a very expensive vehicle, I would definitely invest in some kind of aftermarket tracking system that was concealed inside of the vehicle. There’s a plethora of options out there.

[@EdBolian]

This issue has gotten insanely out of hand. Make sure you know who has your cars!

[@josebrown5961]

I am not a customer but I do watch the big automotive auction shows and Barrett Jackson has a carrier that people can use and that seems safe to use.

[@TimothySeale]

It's like you said, fly to the car, and drive it home. Then it can't happen.

[@cmcwilliams120]

Great video! I’m the Security Manager at a High End dealership in South Florida, and we just had an attempted theft of a customers Bentley by a fraudulent transport Broker company. Best advice is Identify your transport driver. Have transport company, not the broker send a copy of driver that is picking up your car. Do your due diligence to vet the company and driver. Also if you get a Bill of Lading that says Volo Freight Brokers LLC do not release your car!!!

[@randysinger2673]

this happened to another youtuber, Iron City Garage, car got double brokered, car was not stolen, but when it arrived the broker tried to extort more money for the delivery. showed up with a shody open trailer and was not legal, towed by a uninsured truck towing it. Police called, truck and trailer impounded, driver arrested.

[@VictoryAviation]

I can’t imagine shipping a vehicle of high expense without dedicated proprietary tracking equipment with redundancy.

[@3089280288]

And password

[@mastercreamer1398]

Can you imagine working so hard for something and trusting a guy to ship it for you that’s just completely lying to your face? Unbelievable

[@NFHTransportation]

Last year I saw a couple of multimillion dollar cars heading out from Chicago going to Pebble Beach. The rate on the cars were so bad I wouldn’t touch them, so I can’t imagine who showed up to pick those up, and whether or not they had proper insurance and numbers. They paid less to have these cars transported than most dealers pay to transport a brand new Camry.

[@ThatDudeMrRoyalty]

I'd either drive my own car home, invest in an suv and trailer or rent a truck and trailer and tow it home myself.

[@josebrown5961]

I bet you can rent a flatbed truck 🤷🏽‍♀️ That seems like the best way. I may be showing my fear of towing a trailer.

[@ThatDudeMrRoyalty]

@josebrown5961 I was scared to tow a trailer until I bought my vandalized Suburban from Copart in Minneapolis and I was forced to get a trailer and tow my Lexus IS250 to NYC to fix all the broken windows on the Suburban. That was an adventure and towing the trailer was easier than I thought.

[@vintageexcellence]

@@josebrown5961if you are scared of a trailer and think you can rent some “safer” flat bed to move a car - you probably shouldn’t be transporting cars in the first place.

[@ShiftingSplits]

I was working at a Ford dealership in 2012 and had to deal with a bad shipper... My manager and I had to recover the car without police help with a Mustang GT/CS.. If I could remember enough detail the story would make a GREAT Vinwiki video... We had to recover it in a very sketchy situation.. The actual truck driver took the car and put 1000 miles on it in 2 days.. Not an exotic car.. But lets just say directions to recover the car included the phrase "turn off the paved road".. I was on a dirt road A LOT longer than I was comfortable with in the particular situation..

[@XtarBoy001]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="466">7:46</a> that’s a REAL whacky AI image if I’ve ever seen one

[@Twingo_]

Why did they resort to AI slop when I'm sure there's plenty of free images of cars on trailers?

[@joealex65]

Yeah! Say NO to AI slop!

[@pocket-logic1154]

@@Twingo_ That's a seriously good question. That's just pure laziness. It probably would have taken less time to search for one than to do this..

[@DarkNStormyDaniels]

@@Twingo_ No IP rights to pay for (or steal)

[@chrismay2298]

@@Twingo_ The race to the bottom...

[@SplitScreamOFFICIAL]

The 2 apple airtags in the car are worth more than that the $50 that you paid

[@pat727321]

Double brokering is a big problem in our industry

[@leeboo2521]

Truck drivers have been complaining about double brokering for decades now

[@pat727321]

@@leeboo2521 it's worse then that now got offered the same load from 5 different brokers for different prices, everybody taking their little cut

[@GetOffMyyLawn]

I used a generic shipping broker for a used jaguar xk from florida to nj in 2015. While the car arrived, it was a nightmare... shipper could not co-ordinate with dealer and they showed up when the dealership was closed, and apparently the security guard let them in to take the car. The dealer was confused thinking the car was stolen and pissed at me because my teller check had not cleared. The truck showed up and called me from a busy road saying they were unloading the car, and I had to negotiate traffic while they unloaded on the side of the road. Then the battery was dead, and it took 20 minutes for them to get their battery jumper to work. Next time, i will drive it myself.

[@PW.Skyline.V37]

I am a Logistics Coordinator at a company who helps customers to purchase their next vehicle. I spend all day every day shipping cars. It’s tons of fun, and a headache all at the same time 😂

[@mathewhumvee]

See in Canada, this isn’t really an issue with shipping cars. Cause the criminals simply kick in your door and steal your keys. My local police literally said “leave your keys at the front door, let them take your car, that’s all they want, they have guns don’t fight them” FYI in Canada if someone breaks into your house to steal your car, and you defend yourself, your the one going to jail

[@fredericoespinoza]

Time to move

[@turtle2448thomas]

That's what happens when you allow Castro to be your Prime Minister

[@RonLaw82]

Big Bad Canada Ehh

[@psychotictactoe]

Same in the UK, defend your home and you have more chance of the police putting you in cuffs than the scummy chav trying to nick your tv!!

[@ChrisBeevor0511]

Pretty much the same in the UK too. It’s insured, let them take it

[@blue_lancer_es]

Best transport is the snow man and bandit. Hands down. 😂

[@stuartd9741]

I agree.

[@Dominic-f4m]

I have been towing for over 5 years and I’m still convinced this happens more often than you know. To easy to get insurance and dot numbers for companies and drive their truck. They hire anyone now. Don’t even have to speak English it’s more and more uncommon

[@awin39564]

You mention LA being a hot spot for drop off locations. Any other areas off hand? I had 2 lambos, a g wagon, and a ferrari get stolen from me in LA in June. All were being shipped together. A few weeks later, 3 of the cars were recovered in the same area, one stripped, but the 4th never popped up. In September the feds found my fourth car in use, and tailed it all the way to an NYC port before making an arrest/recovery in December. I was shocked the car was still in the country AND with some VINs not scratched out.

[@Slimothy]

*I keep so many AirTags hidden in my vehicle that if a thief stole it, somehow found one of the AirTags, there's no way he'd assume there's a second....third...fourth...fifth...etc.* I will most definitely find them/my car well before they find all of the AirTags hidden throughout it in specialty compartments with specialty hidden AirTag holders. I can't imagine shipping a car without at least 6 AirTags hidden in the car.

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Unfortunately they usually end up in metal containers, which serve as pretty good faraday cages

[@Slimothy]

@ By the time the AirTag pings me, there’s no way they have the car anywhere near a port unless they put it on a plane straight from where they stole it which is impossible. Can literally track it to the port. Can track it after the port. And if anyone is near that shipping container they’ll still ping. So no. Definitely not going to be a problem.

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

@@Slimothy you don't have to be at a port to put a car in a box :)

[@Slimothy]

@ Someone will be near the box then driving the truck :) AirTags can reach through a shipping container at that distance in many cases. And you’ll also have the starting point and destination if all else fails :) no issue

[@MattGrochowski]

I work for an exotic car rental company and this has been tried with us multiple times

[@liamelder1972]

Car wholesaler here! This is very much a real problem even for normal dealer inventory (i.e Jeep Grand Cherokee). I’ve even had auctions hand out my car to a random person who just had a transport license, essentially to the tune of what Ed is saying. The only way to get around this problem is to form relationships with individual transport companies separate from central dispatch and coordinate with them directly.

[@GEARHEADdezign]

I had a broker nightmare trying to ship a truck from CA to NY. A couple months and lots of lies later, I booked a different company and it was here in just a few days. Kinda soured me on shipping, and I like road trips anyway

[@WTF-sh4is]

I would never think to spend anywhere near $100,000+ on a vehicle and NOT go inspect it, pick it up, and transport it myself!! Whether that involves driving it myself or towing it myself, I will be the one handling it.

[@alecb8509]

Some people have more money than time. It could take up 2 or 3 days to fly out and then drive it back

[@jacksmith8002]

Isn't hiding a few air-tag/tracking devices the SOP on these cars??

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

Metal box = faraday cage

[@iancarrey4123]

Ed is talking about covered transport drivers. The open car haulers will park in the middle of a road and drive into oncoming traffic to get your car out then immediately start screaming if you don’t sign off on the car. Ask me how I know.

[@WTF-sh4is]

Lol 😂 so true

[@AllDryAtlanta]

Don't these million dollar cars have GEO tags? And what about spending a few hundred to bury 5 or 6 of them in the car for shipping

[@josuecheves187]

Wait real quick if you have enough money to buy an exotic car and ship multiple vehicles every month why not just buy like a nice super duty ford Chevy etc and buy a nice trailer then just pay one or a few guys you actually trust and drive them to their destinations yourself under your own control?????

[@josuecheves187]

💡

[@artoodeetoo3064]

I bet Doug Demuro would know at least one decent company

[@iancharlton678]

Motortrade since 1980 - Recovery and transport business since 1989 here in the UK 🇬🇧 We are contracted to motoring organisations, garages, authorities and insurance companies. We only move individual cars and miss out on a lot of trade for moving exotics, mainly down to price……. we don’t do multiples, so every job is a one off, with one driver. More costly, but more secure for the owner………. We get enough, 35 years in with no advertising. 🙂🇬🇧

[@ETr4d3]

Have shipped cars across Europe twice - once using one of the largest companies, which was also one of the first in google search. And second time - a family member who owns a 3-car transporter van. Never knew stealing vehicle during transport was a thing.

[@grendelum]

y’all spend house money on a car and don’t spend $100 on a gps tracker when you ship them?

[@eriknulty6392]

even a airtag hidden, something!

[@Ndw1995]

That my friend is what we call a “bandaid” on a cut that never should have happened in the first place. No cut = no bandaid needed

[@Trainmaster909]

A GPS tracker hidden in the car and a battery for it, as well as a spare key that you have before the car even leaves the seller.

[@josebrown5961]

The GPS thing seems like something that I would do automatically.🤷🏽‍♀️ But I don’t own an expensive car…

[@tiufb]

And if you’re a seller, leave insurance on the car until the buyer confirms receipt.

[@cesariojpn]

Odd this comes on the heels of Hoovies experience with the Evo X he bought recently.....and shipped.

[@DFWsCars]

At least it made it

[@check4v]

The contrast on this video looks weird. Or Ed is somehow really orange today lol

[@jokerxboards8007]

Plot twist. Ed just came back from a tanning session🤣

[@48Boxer]

Ed is just trying to Make Car Shipping Great Again

[@Eighties_garage717]

Making VinWiki great again ! 💪

[@EdBolian]

New camera. Dialing in settings.

[@patrickderp1044]

@@EdBolian make sure aperture is as wide open as possible, and use the iso to bring the light up. also film at 24fps, forget what anyone says about 60fps or tiny aperture size

[@Cameronpiqua1]

Air tag the cars before they get shipped. I feel that would help a lot. And make sure the air tags are well hidden

[@SLACKERSHAW]

While working for a car carrier and brokerage, we’ve been burned by scammers on central! Luckily I’ve been fortunate enough to not have had a car thief get ahold of one of my loads!!! I know a few dealers who have been burned!

[@manualmafia6015]

Used a broker to move from FL to MD… worst experience ever.

[@rwdplz1]

Have shipped cars, have experienced damage. If the driver has a thick eastern European accent, your car WILL be damaged.

[@rareexoticvehicles]

That is 99.9% of drivers. 😅

[@WTF-sh4is]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Rick-vg2pz]

I’m moving and need to get a vehicle shipped to me. I have no idea where to start to find someone. I don’t trust anyone

[@UNFORTUNATETRAVELER]

The one thing that should be brought up is, don’t always blame these companies for taking short shortcuts because the owners of these cars are always looking for the absolute, cheapest cheapest cheapest person to haul the load. And you know what they say you get what you pay for.

[@DFWsCars]

Happened in my Urus I just sold. Luckily buyer recovered it.

[@EdBolian]

Glad they found it.

[@chadvarnell1889]

Seems like a great reason to cultivate a good working relationship with a quality local trucking company. Pay them well, and send them some regular *perks* (Pizza, doughnuts, flowers, etc.) and consider it cheap insurance when you are dealing with cars of that value. Maybe buy the driver a nice dinner & a cash bonus after every successful delivery...

[@leeboo2521]

Right 😂..... these people think truck drivers are beneath them and only an unnecessary evil of doing business

[@stephenmoore8293]

These types of people wouldn't sit down at a table with a truck driver theyre too good. Ed lives in a multi million dollar estate. Hoovie has always seemed like a silver spoon baby tavarish however I think I could hang out with

[@Uncle-Percy-Inc.]

He said to buy him dinner, not take him out to dinner. Driver probably doesn't have time to​ sit down to eat anyways. Not getting paid if he's not driving.@@stephenmoore8293

[@jessiegunter1888]

I guess my last car wasn’t special enough to get stolen, I called one company and they had the car to me in 4 days from Arizona to North Carolina

[@SayWhen03]

"When in doubt...just road trip your car home." Gold, Jerry, Gold!

[@Wallst522]

Central dispatch is not doing enough to prevent these companies from even getting onboarded. ThIS is the worst I've seen it in fifteen years.

[@briancs5884]

I throw a few apple air-tags in different areas….works fine.

[@RYXLO]

Buddy of mines 812 just had this happen to it last week! Insane , car was sent to a different state and was getting ready to be off to another country when he found it.

[@jackhydrazine1376]

Put an Apple AirTag in the car and track it. Disable it after it has been shipped successfully.

[@leeboo2521]

That's illegal

[@ILoveTinfoilHats]

​@@leeboo2521 no it's not

[@bwofficial1776]

@@leeboo2521 It's not illegal to ensure a high-value item makes it to its destination.

[@leeboo2521]

@@bwofficial1776 Illegal!!!

[@Jessikitty2020]

We had three stolen out of the dealership a couple months ago. Two new g wagons and a n sls roadster.

[@CHOPSHOPX]

As a convicted, retired car theif, tracking devices are only good until they are found. A car in a transporter with a tracking device is much better then a car with a criminal behind the wheel. I would always carry a bug Detector and if a Lo-Jack went off in a car i was driving i could typically dismantle it with in a minute or two on the side of the road. It helps when you know were they put them as i would so if you do have a device like this make sure it is in spot that can't be easily accessed. I hope this helps someone.

[@costafilh0]

Great opportunity for those that are quality reference in the space to do a better job advertising themselves and get all these customers going to scammers.

[@wcmcdowell]

You should always check the dot number when the car is picked up. And always have an insurance certificate with your company name as the beneficiary.

[@clintmiller88]

I don’t know that road tripping your car across country is the safest but I get your point

[@CLCIII]

Wow! Crazy convoluted scheme that unfortunately seems to be working. Looks like it is essential to have trackers placed on your vehicle. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇

[@Hokie23aa]

Man this sounds like an absolute nightmare.

[@Igor23506]

I'm a dealer and transporter. Unfortunately I had the pain of this exact scenario. Luckily vehicle was recovered in a Walmart parking lot in Laredo tx (mine was stolen by the Mexican cartel)

[@Quantum3xistance]

I'd love to hear more about what they do with such high profile stolen vehicles

[@edwardgreenjr167]

Its a sad state of affairs when you cannot rely on local authorities when you know the location of a stolen car. Having that extra key is imperative. A portable grinder, bolt cutters, and some friends with a pension of throwing down are also good to bring along. One occasion in Phila, a well-timed call to those same local deputies was clutch. Funny how they don't care about a stolen car, but a 'robbery in progress' changes things.

[@xephael3485]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="68">1:08</a> absolutely BS... I bet you think the larger healthcare insurance providers are good too. If you have the money for an exotic car you can pay for a local reputable and insured transport driver to move it. You're going to have a lot better luck when you know where the guy who owns the business lives.

[@SLACKERSHAW]

Bro, working in this industry, you would be surprised how cheap some people are.

[@xephael3485]

​@@SLACKERSHAWCompletely agree with you 👍💯 they're might be pennywise but they're pound foolish.

[@danielseelye6005]

The way rich people get rich is varied, the way people _stay_ rich is by not spending more than you absolutely need to.

[@somenygaard]

You would think Ed might have some experience with this subject. How many exotic cars have you been involved with shipping?

[@hunterjones9822]

I guess I'm lucky, I have a independent transport guy that has his own rig, an autoloader trailer, and he rolls non stop from point A to B.

[@Motocentrick]

These high value cars should have a tracking device installed before shipping!

[@nascarniko2244]

Next time I buy a car out of state I am just going to mail them an airtag to put in my car

[@kSounztv]

So basically yep can’t hide a tracker?

[@spooler7828]

I bought my own enclosed car trailer to do it myself. I have used it many many times. I didn't expect that.

[@iknowbob94]

I am happy to road trip anyone’s car. For free.

[@chrismay2298]

Regardless how much currency you're rolling around in, if you don't do things yourself, they are DEFINITELY not going to be done correctly.

[@KCMedia33]

Many times the two transport companies are working together too.

[@riomp300]

A 2 min. Facetime call at dropoff could solve a lot of issues here.

[@RoadRage810]

I'm going to be having a car imported from Japan next year to a specialty dealership in Virginia. I am flying in and driving it home or the wife and i will road trip down and drive it back. I come from a family of truckers and under no circumstances would i ever had a car transported unless i absolutely had to. I'm the idiot that would buy a Miuira from Curated and drive it back to Michigan. 😂

[@DOUBLEDEFENSE]

Guys they have tracking scanners and can find simple tags or locators

[@elisviridov]

Happened to me few weeks ago, is there any detectives or attorneys specific for this issue??

[@cozyboy47]

Thought this would be Ed’s one of many car trek loophole acquisitions…

[@NefastusJones]

This guy sure seems to know a lot about how to steal cars. Just sayin'...

[@pocket-logic1154]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="464">7:44</a> - I wonder how many of THESE were stolen. My money is on zero.

[@jimbojimson]

I guess there are circumstances where it isn't practical, but I just can't imagine having an excuse to drive a fun car across the country and not doing it. You couldn't pay me enough to have my cars transported if I can drive them instead.

[@xnadave]

If I have a choice between having "boots on the ground" against potentially armed thieves, or collecting insurance, I'm going with insurance.

[@ingvarTer]

That is called double or even triple brokerage. Primarily, first broker is liable , customer would be a victim. But it will be super hard to seek justice. Make sure you have multiple tracking devices in your ca and do legitimate business with trusted carrier/broker. Brokers are suck!

[@MisterMonsieur]

*Sure. "Stolen." Right. Even the wealthy need that insurance money.*

[@natrone23]

Rich guy problems

[@3pedali911]

Why not hide a few location trackers in the car prior to shipping? That way you can track it soon as it leaves

[@bencarey243]

Shouldn't a dealership be able to contact a reliable shipper for you? And if it's used from somebody wouldn't you want to inspect it first anyway so you would be able to drive it back?

[@nedudki]

How the cars get re-VIN-d ? Multiple location on the car, in the ECU... Thx

[@olebloom1641]

I used to handle a financing portfolio for high value car loans and leases. We would get so many stolen using this and similar scams all the time. Picked up a lot from impound, customs, DEA, PI's for finder fees, etc. Recovered about 60%. Maddening.

[@DoubbleAgent]

Great Info Ed!

[@dreed7312]

Because the thieves will surely tell you the truth when you call them. Best method is for you or someone you know to drive the car home yourself.

[@atomparish]

Even if they do deliver your car theirs a chance they were able to joy ride it around as if it were their own. I have had the pleasure of getting to ride around in these "in-transit" cars 911 turbo s, lambo, bently...good times.

[@kylepokorski6045]

I bought an 85 thunderbird out of Chicago to ship to la from a dealer first time i couldn't pick it up and the truck and car disappeared from the load board and nobody knows where the driver or car went

[@ains2904]

only watched half way through before my fbi agent told me to stop.

[@2slovak0]

Brokers. A trucker’s worst nightmare. Do t know how many times my phone got blown up from different brokers on the same load. Then I asked whose load this is and got more money because I refused to move the truck. Biggest vultures known to man. 6 brokers on one load.

[@mityt2064]

Better off Using Passport or Innecity sometimes you just have to wait

[@PsRohrbaugh]

Jesus Ed - is there anything you're not an expert on? Great video.

[@andreasmainzer7711]

my Hint would be to check at Mayor Car Shows at the End to see what Carrier Company load the Exhibits. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="625">10:25</a>

[@bwofficial1776]

Where is the mayor's car show?

[@BallStAlum96]

Could another countermeasure is put a tracking device somewhere in the car? something as simple as an apple air. tag ?

[@bobreality3105]

Great video as always Ed. Thank you so much!

[@WolfWould]

So you're saying if i got a few trucks with enclosed trailers and was absolutely honest, I could start a legit business and make tons of money?

[@WheelieMedia]

thanks for teaching me how to do this!!

[@user-ys1cv7ny2s]

i actually do exotic transport and i would love to get your feed back i am a car enthusiast trying to make a difference in the industry i have a way for the customer to keep tabs on their vehicle and the driver also because i know how much these cars mean to the owners they mean more to me i wanna be the boots on the ground for every car enthusiast

[@chriskempton8334]

Babe, wake up. VinWiki got a new intro 🎉

[@amandaparton1646]

Hide air tags on all of them. Then go straight to wherever your car is. Guys are doing this all the time now

[@BarracudaTek]

Wouldn’t an AirTag fix most of this?

[@ChrisBeevor0511]

I noticed DDE only ever use Plycar or their own truck/trailer with a driver they know and use regularly

[@heyinway]

Shady Canadians