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This trip was going extremely well until........ I loaded and left Friday and delivered in Johnson City, Tn Monday morning. My reload was from Orangeburg, SC going to Mississauga, On to deliver Wednesday morning.
I informed dispatch I would be there Tuesday afternoon and was cleared to just switch in Mississauga and deliver my next load in Oakdale Mn. That's when my luck started to change.
I arrived at US Customs at the Detroit border Thursday 5.30am, the officer asked me the usual questions, handed back my passport and "FAST" card and said "Have a nice day", if only!
90 mile west of Detroit my phone rang, it was dispatch, "Dave, where are you?" "90 mile west of Detroit" "How did you manage to clear customs?" So I explained the process and the line went a little quiet then "ok I have a contact name and number at CBP (Customs and border patrol) Detroit that you need to call asap"
I called and it turned out that my load had been selected to go to x ray at Detroit before leaving, one problem..... the officer didn't ask me to go to x ray. There was no way around this, I had to return to detroit for x ray or they would come looking for me and if they had to do that I would be arrested.
5 hours later, a personal escort through the scanner and an encounter with the k9 unit at CBP I was now free to leave and head towards my delivery.
I arrived 3 hours late at my delivery because of this fiasco but they were very good about it, and I was now planned to switch trailers only 15 minutes away and take that load to Winnipeg.
Back home safe now and don't want to ever repeat what happened this week, it's not a nice feeling.
4 comments:
I bet you craped yourself. i can't remember how it works at Detroit but don't they give you a piece of paper so you get out of the parking lot? I am glad I have never had that much trouble at boarder other then loaded on cleared.Oh i did have a seed planter on once and they couldn't find the made in Canada on it and turned me around and had to return it to be labelled right lol
I did mate, it wasn't a nice feeling, especially when my escort showed up and I spotted the sniffer dog. What's this I am reading about you buying a truck, come on mate full story please lol!
Hey Dave,have been following your blog for a while,sounds like it was a pretty stressful experience,also would like to congragulate yourself on your celebrate status lol.Read the piece in the truck mag,EUROPE,S BEST,what can i say another good st helens lad out in Canada
Thanks Bigbrom. I am actually Scottish but lived in St. Helens from '79 to '07 my wife and both boys were all born and bred there though.
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