Smart trailer security authorization method and device

A method of pre-authorizing powered equipment tractors, to link to non-powered equipment trailers comprising:

• Communicatively coupling at least one carrier, shipper, owner or operator logistics computing system to at least one of a carrier authorization computing system (CAS), wherein the CAS receives from the upstream CAS logistics systems grant data or an instruction or a combination of a grant and instruction, the grant data including at least one data information element, designated herein grant data (GD) identifying the PE, its owner or operating company, its operating driver and/or certified drivers, haul contract information, dispatch information, carrier appointment, lease information, a validity time window, an applicable geographical area, wherein the CAS is communicatively coupled to a non-powered equipment trailer security system installed on the non-powered equipment trailer,
• the non-powered equipment trailer security system comprised of a physical device for blocking or disabling non-powered equipment trailer movement and/or driving systems, and a computing device configured to receive from the CAS grant data and instructions to secure or unsecure the non-powered equipment trailer,
• the authorization computing device further configured to cause the blocking or disabling of one or more physical devices to secure or unsecure the non-powered equipment trailer in accordance with the received instruction or grant data,
• wherein the computing device may further be configured to identify a powered equipment within communication proximity of an non-powered equipment trailer by comparing the grant data to powered equipment identification information received via at least one of an optical sensor, sound sensor, electromagnetic receiver or a physical input device, collectively referred to as Identification Devices, wherein the identification device is coupled to the computing device electrically, optically, electromagnetically, or sonically, and
• the pre-authorization is either for the powered equipment, its driver, its owner, its operating company, or any combination thereof.