What happens when a shipment of limes turns into 405 lbs of marijuana??

Rotten limes conceal smell of pot......

 

There are just too many criminals out there now that can outsmart even the police. With what has been stated, the driver is most likely innocent and the cops just want a kill.

They should be investigating the place where the load came into. So many loads of produce are loaded at docks where the driver has no access to even seeing what is being loaded on the truck before it is sealed.

 

You're the one that was trying to make a point about the refer not being on. Or are you simply playing "topic police?"

As previous posters have said, having shut off the refer is a non-issue. When I was hauling refers I was paying the fuel bill so I shut it off every chance I could... especially if I was going to be in the trailer at the time of unloading. Limes should be transported somewhere between 10C-15C (50F-60F), so to have a trailer half-unloaded in Memphis and the refer shut off is, again, a non-issue.

 

Not to dishearten the OP, but I wouldn't look to the cops to be terribly helpful, especially in TN.

Tennessee Police Profiting Off Drug Trade

 

Yes, I initially did bring up the report where police said the reefer was found not to be on.
My point was,, it's a non-issue IF the reefer had only been recently turned off (as you are assuming).
However it is a huge issue if it was found the reefer was never even turned on since pickin up the load.

No, I'm not the "topic police", but I have every right to voice my opinion things are going way off topic when I see about half a dozen posts discussing loading docks, dock policies, and other particulars that have no relationship whatsoever to the actual unloading operation of the "parking lot" delivery in this case.

 

How do we know the reefer wasn't simply between cycles? If the ambient temperature was in the proper range (which isn't an impossibility), it could be that cycle sentry didn't have to kick in.

Fun speculation is fun.

 

This thread has gone way off topic

 

What happened here is fairly common practice in the drug trade. It's sad that some of you would throw the driver under the bus so quick.

 

I wouldn't have questioned the rotting limes too much, especially since the shipper and receiver gave the ok. As anyone in trucking knows, people want some weird s*** hauled. Now the delivery of the limes to the restaurant might have been questionable, but who is the driver to question it? He's delivering where they wanted their crap... that's what drivers do. Rotten limes have to go somewhere- there are actually companies that want them to use for compost. (viridiun is one).

I have delivered to many boarded up buildings that were used as storage. Hell, our company even owns an abandoned looking building in Houston that is used for storage, it looks like something right out of a drug cartel movie. When we get a delivery there, we send a guy over from the main yard 2 miles away to meet the truck and unload it.