Well I'm done with Canada forever.

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by ethos, Feb 25, 2016.

  1. ethos

    ethos Road Train Member

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    Over an hour and no they didn't search anybody else. I would guess a hundred trucks passed while I was there.
     
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  3. pattyj

    pattyj Road Train Member

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    And I thought Detroit customs was bad.they searched my truck before was there well over an hr,but they were very polite and professional.
     
  4. Brettj3876

    Brettj3876 Road Train Member

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    THat's the only time I would even consider making a mess in the latrine
     
  5. dca

    dca Road Train Member

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    They're looking for people like this, apparently truck drivers fit the profile

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  6. Ougigoug

    Ougigoug Heavy Load Member

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    Wrong places wrong times, believe me there is bad as... officers on both sides of the fence.
     
  7. Elroythekid

    Elroythekid Road Train Member

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    You gave everybody Kanye......lol
     
  8. Ridgeline

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    We don't do Canada after last week, it became too much of a hassle getting back for some reason. After 4 years of running into Windsor for auto parts, one driver was hassled every time by the US customs, but two weeks ago I had to run over to Canada to take my dad to see a dying cousin and they gave us a very bad time at Customs. They held us up for three hours, with searching, asking stupid questions and so on - they even asked him to prove he was a US citizen was one question that was bizarre, he has a passport and doesn't need to carry anything else. They were not too nice to me, I had a sinus infection at the time and could not pronounce the street name properly, my French is bad when I am sick, so the guy just ripped me a new butt because I didn't know where I was going.
     
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  9. ethos

    ethos Road Train Member

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    Got a load from Montreal to Iowa so I set it up to cross in Port Huron, bit out of route but I figured that was my best chance for an easy crossing. I'm seriously spooked now. One last crossing and I swear that passport card is in pieces.
     
  10. taxihacker66

    taxihacker66 Road Train Member

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    You'll sail right through customs. :)
     
  11. JayTee

    JayTee Light Load Member

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    You should be okay either at Detroit or Port Huron Ethos. Sucks that they put you thru that nonsense, all in the name of power and control. I went thru a very similar deal at Grand Portage MN one night a few years ago and got busted too. My crime? I had six oranges in the fridge with no way for the self-important assbag to determine if they were American born. Seriously. Young kid, big badge and big gun. After about 90 minutes of tearing my truck to pieces a supervisor came by, asked why I was being detained, the punk told him, and trying to hold back a huge smile the head cop told him to let me go. It's frustrating and humiliating all at once and there ain't a #### thing any of us can do about it. So much for the "war on terror"
     
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