Well I'm done with Canada forever.

Sounds like a full on random search, your (un)lucky day. And all the posts detailing the rights you give up at the border are correct. I guess they could even hold you for a period of time without charging you, I have been tossed at the border twice in the 40 years I have been crossing, but nothing as severe as you describe. Your decision to forgo border crossings is understandable, we are having a harder and harder time getting drivers willing to do it, and just keep on charging higher and higher rates.

 

Meh I just don't care enough, if you get a full inspection they can find anything to give you grief over.

His problem was his pics of his guns, but really that was just a pretext. Guns are legal personal property in the US, and if I was given crap over that all I would say is, I don't have them with me now..

 

Just remember, railroad engineers get to preclear and drive right over the border no issue .

And get paid better.....

 

That truly sucks, last time I went to Canada was in 2014, at the border, I was asked if I had any firearms, replied not with me, asked if I had ever been finger printed, I replied yes, and what for, my concealed weapons permit, he then asked and why don't you have any firearms with you now, my reply was because if I get to this point with a gun, Canada would more than likely arrest me and put me in jail, he smiled and said have a great day, hopefully this won't happen again to you

 

That's what the US officers do to us. Had very little issues in the last few years. Only at the known ports where they check the truck every time. But resently I was checked again after about 6 years.

 

I've been hearing about the border crossing woes since I started by driver's. I've questioned why anyone wants to cross. why not move it all by rail.

trucking has a great rep with all drug smugglers, terrorists and the criminally intended looneys .

it's automatic assumption based on safety and security. guilty until proven innocent. let the tourist's deal with it

 

Wow that sucks @ethos!

Stories like this just reinforce the fact that I will probably never visit the US out of fear of being put through what you were.

 

Got to the USborder at N Portal. Had a US custom guy trash my truck. I go back to my truck and i see shoe prints on my mattress. I walk back in to the customs office, in the midst of the tourists ans that punk who trashed my truck smirked.
" You are an effin a Hole!"
'Driver, you don't talk to me like that!'
"F you and the sourpuss you rode in on!"
'I can arrest you...'
"Come and get me."
A supervisor stepped up to me and asked me what was wrong. I told him about how the guy stood on my bed with muddy boots. Flat top truck. Unless youre shorter than 4 ft tall, theres absolutely no reason to ever do that. He gave me a card and the guy's badge number. There is a place to file complaints.

I used to go to Canada all the time, but now because of the hassle, I need to see $10000 minimum for a general freight load, oversized and tarp pay has to knock it near $15grand.