When a shipper hides drugs in your load

I'd want at least double the broker rate

 

Amazon is the devil as far as I’m concerned. They get these tax breaks from cities then overburden that city’s infrastructure. They farm out their admin as much as possible to India or who knows where. They treat their warehouse employees like expendable garbage because they can, and COVID has only expanded their pool of desperate applicants. They give the middle finger to the trucking industry. Jeff Bezos has made billions since corona hit while mom and pops have gone under.
I love that we have so many choices in America. I choose not to buy from Amazon. It’s just another race to the bottom.
Sorry about the thread derail.

 

If you pick up a preloaded and sealed trailer with the proper documentation and you get inspected down the road and drugs are found, you may get arrested but a first year lawyer could get you off.
If it was as bad as some say, no self respecting driver would ever pick up a preloaded trailer! Especially down near the border.

 

You think they'd file a claim on your cargo insurance?

 

When I started as an O/O, I pulled power only while saving for my trailer. I picked up a brand new trailer heading to the border somewhere in Texas. A trooper pulled me over and noticed the smell of the new sealant in the trailer. He pulled me into a dead-end, called in the DEA and all the new troopers in the area for a training session. They scoured that trailer inside and out looking for drugs. I explained it was a brand new trailer, hence the "new car smell." Made me realize how crafty smugglers can be though. It was a good catch by the experienced trooper to be suspicious.

In full disclosure, since I'm a former LEO, the trooper and I had a good chuckle while I was sitting up front with him in his cruiser. When I told him I would have called in a K9, he laughed and said he already had. From that point on, I was okay with him. The new guys got some good training and the DEA agent was a good guy. No hard feelings, even if it delayed me a few hours. Luckily, I wasn't on that tight of a schedule that day.

 

most ppl working at the warehouses aren’t Amazon employees. They’re sent there by staffing companies. I worked at a fulfillment center in northern Kentucky back in 2013. $10.50 to work day shift or $11.25 to work night shift. One 30 minute break for a 12 hour shift. Anti-union propaganda every Friday. But they did let us stretch before every shift though

 

If that is the same one I remember the driver was an O/O. He picked up
a load of construction equipment from a jobsite. He had no customer issued
Bill of Lading......couldn't prove where he got it from or where it was going.
It was all word of mouth......doing a favor for a former customer type of deal.


I may be wrong but I always thought that as long as the load has the proper
documentation..............basically if the law can blame someone else the driver
should be off the hook.

 

The good ole USPS moves some weight. Back in high school one of my friends brothers used to get weed in the mail from the California. Those flat rate boxes. Vacuum sealed and delivered by the mail man Lol. Good times