High-Value Cargo Escort Checklist

Every high-value cargo escort lives or dies on preparation and documentation. Use this checklist as a baseline for your missions, then adapt it to your clients and corridors.

Before transit (pre-mission)

• Confirm the Security Escort Data Sheet is complete: order number, origin, destination, schedule, truck, trailer, and driver details.
• Verify document requirements with the client (seals, BOL, gate passes).
• Confirm escort assignment, vehicle readiness, and communications check with dispatch.
• Review the route, known risk points, and planned checkpoints.
• Verify the field app is logged in and background GPS is active.

During transit (in-mission)

• Maintain continuous live GPS tracking to the SOC.
• Log a geo-tagged checkpoint at each planned stop — photo, location, and time.
• Note any deviation, delay, or incident immediately, with a timestamp.
• Keep dispatch updated through the route channel; escalate anything unusual.
• Confirm seals remain intact at each handoff.

After transit (post-mission)

• Capture final delivery confirmation and a closing checkpoint.
• Complete all on-site fields in the data sheet.
• Confirm the chain of custody is unbroken end to end.
• Make proof of service available to the client.

Make the checklist run itself

A paper checklist is only as good as the person remembering it. With Vector, the mission record, checkpoints, and data sheet are built into the workflow — so the checklist is the system, not a clipboard. This article is part of our guide to security escort operations.