Criminals buy haulage firms to steal lorryloads of goods, BBC finds

William McLennan, Elizabeth Glinka and Victoria Archer,BBC Local InvestigationsGetty ImagesCriminal gangs are buying up haulage firms to pose as truckers and steal goods by the lorryload, the BBC has learned.We found evidence that a group of haulage companies were purchased using a dead man's details.One of the haulage firms was then hired as a subcontractor by an unwitting UK transport company. A manufacturer…