When a shipper hides drugs in your load

Ha..
If that was the case the only way illegal substances would be moved would be OTR truck shipments.
Do you really know what's in the 13th pallet, on the 4th stack of a 9 box tie??
Neither does anyone else driving a TL or LTL shipment.

 

Oh believe me I know lots of drugs move by what would be considered normal freight shipments. I've seen those kinds of busts go down. Hell I had a friend who got busted with three tractor-trailer loads of marijuana with some paper products in the back of the trailer

"On November 11, 1983, three tractors with trailers arrived in Charleston, South Carolina at prearranged motels. The defendant owned two of the tractors and had picked up one of the trailers when it was purchased.1 Undercover Drug Enforcement Agents picked up the trailers, loaded them with marijuana, sealed the trailers with the same type of seals used in interstate commerce by the United States Customs Service, and returned the trailers to the motels where the drivers were staying. On November 13, 1983, the three tractor trailers, after having been loaded with marijuana and paper products in the rear of the trailer, were driven by the defendant's father, brother, and brother-in-law,"
United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. James A. Rawle, Jr., Defendant-appellant, 845 F.2d 1244 (4th Cir. 1988)

But I'm just telling you

 

The family business.
If your BIL states a motel as consignee I may become suspicious..lol

 

But I'm just telling you don't think for a moment that just because you're innocent you get to walk away. That's not how the system works

 

47 yrs in the biz and 3 yrs in prison I'm familiar w both but appreciate the advice.

 

You know Jim was actually a pretty good guy. He was smart enough to keep his mouth shut and did his 10 years. He rebuild his life and went into the heavy haul business successful enough to I have about 15 trucks going. Nice clean flea treated as drivers well. He's retired now I think he must be about 70

 

You are referring to someone who knowingly transports or is a facilitator of illegal drug movement, not a shipper who hides drugs in a shipment unbeknownst to a driver.
Big difference.

 

I knew one of those guys too although I wouldn't call him a friend. Just someone I did truck repairs for back in the day. Before he got busted I had no idea what he was up to but he always kind of rub me wrong. Lots of brand new and newer trucks, lots of chicken lights and chrome, treated his driver's like garbage. Did dry van and reefer work mostly regional. Shipping Coke and math in the trailers.

I've been around a little while too, turning wrenches full-time since the mid-seventies, started driving in the late seventies, bought my first truck in 82, now I have a truck and equipment repair shop not far from where route 80 and 81 intersect in the Pennsylvania anthracite region