By Sean Kilcarr, senior editor

Randy Brown will tell you that if he had a way to double-check the identities of truck drivers electronically in real time, he wouldn't have been burned for $500,000.

That's what his company, Ag Depot, a packaging/bulk handling, repackaging, manufacturing, and transportation services provider for manufacturers and retailers of agricultural crop protection products, lost when one of its chemical loads was stolen in June 2002.

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