I saw 3 unmarked cop cars today that had a Schneider truck pulled over. On I 40 near Van Buren Arkansas then they escorted him 1 in front 2 behind with lights on. Why?
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MajorHymen@reddit
Smuggling most likely. Unmarked means they had prior info on the truck and followed it to see what it did then when the felt they had the info they needed pull it over and impound the truck and trailer
Be-It-coin@reddit (OP)
That's what I thought. But Schneider is a major carrier.
GenX_Leo@reddit
Means more people doing shady shit in your company.... like any other company...
Cardinal_350@reddit
They ship what people tell them to pick up. I worked LTL for a few years. At one of our terminals like every 2 weeks some guys would drop off a shitty couch to ship. Happened enough to get suspicious. Terminal manager called the cops and sure enough it was stuffed with drugs. So God knows how many pounds of drugs we had shipped for those guys
ThePinkMohawk@reddit
Worked for a national LTL carrier about 15 years ago and had something similar happen...
Pallet of new looking shoe boxes came to our dock one day. A few minutes after it was taken off the truck 10 official vehicles come rolling in (local PD, ATF, FBI that I saw). They immediately secured the area of the dock where the pallet was with tape and had a wall of pallets built around it to separate them from view.
Turns out it was a shipment of hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash going to a local gang that they had been tracking from shipment and stopping to inspect at every terminal along the journey (made 3 stops) with ours being the last one before delivery. They took the pallet on a box truck for a controlled delivery the next day!
potatocross@reddit
I work in small package. They come pick up boxes of drugs all the time. What’s crazy is they always know exactly which box it is but have a dog sniff it anyway.
DukeBradford2@reddit
i worked for the blumkin. one load i picked up was near the airport in victorville (mojave) cali. Only 2 people working there, a blacked out suv that screamed up to no good in the lot. shipping office guy weighed down with jewelry. they were importing couch cushions from mexico through the airport. the warehouse was filled with cushions in stages of: in boxes and neatly packed to out of boxes and piled 6 feet high. took them 7 hours and only one other trailer was in the yard the whole time. bol said 2600lbs, go across dot scale and its 23k to 27k. just saying yup its totally profitable to fly in seat cushion from mexico and take them out of their packing and pile them on a dirty floor.
MajorHymen@reddit
Eh that might be part of the plan to help it make it through unnoticed. Schneider likely sells all their trucks after warranty I assume they take all decals off when they do but maybe they don’t. Even if they do smugglers could put decals on any truck so it blends in amongst all the other mega carriers.
Be-It-coin@reddit (OP)
😲
mpsgtmo@reddit
Cuz A A Ron done fucked up
Siom_one@reddit
Probably had an issue that couldn't be fixed in the side of the road. I had hiway patrol escort me to the next truck stop when I got my tire blown out in SC.
No-Light-3@reddit
This happened to me in Columbia, SC this company I worked for was altering the ELD and I got pulled and the dh officer ask to see it but then went into the location history and he followed me to the closest Love’s and put me OOS
OneSkepticalOwl@reddit
i got keys.
coming from overseas.
cost a nigga 200Gs
Waisted-Desert@reddit
How are we supposed to know? There's dozens of possible reasons.
Kershaws_Tasty_Ruben@reddit
Here’s an alternative reason.
Maybe the co driver had some type of medical issue and it was faster to drive the truck to the hospital. Or, safer to meet the ambulance off the highway so they could get the driver out of the tractor.
kali4niakid@reddit
No peaky panish?
Pabst88@reddit
I may or may not been pulled over with an illegal load once. They did the same for about 5 miles till we could park and weigh out at the nearest service plaza.
Be-It-coin@reddit (OP)
Illegal? You mean over weight?
Pabst88@reddit
Trailer was overweight and an issue with registration.
Capital-Sorbet652@reddit
It could very well be something way more mundane. Would a DOT officer escort a truck to the nearest truckstop if they have a HOS violation? Or if they’re put OOS?
bczfckit@reddit
saw a DOT officer escort a driver to the TA in Laredo and slap an OOS sticker on his truck last week, so definitely a possibility, but three unmarked would be a little excessive for that, no? 😅
Delicious-Cattle-357@reddit
Bad boys bad boys
psyclistny@reddit
Who knew the “Bad Boys” in the song were the cops.
LanceWasHere@reddit
Whatcha gonna do?
Indentured-peasant@reddit
Wuh I do? Wuh I do?
Trappin4DaSport@reddit
trailer full of snow
wiebols@reddit
If they were locals then he may have tore something up ( hit something) where he was camped out.
Jaded_Loverr@reddit
Because they can
Be-It-coin@reddit (OP)
Over weight? Ice?
LongjumpingCat6642@reddit
Because they can. Police can stop and pull over and commercial vehicle for no reason and do a random inspection. You don’t have the same rights like you do in a car
Always_Shifting_4459@reddit
We're not high enough on the food chain to know such things and often times certain things are better left not spoken about
genocyde26008219@reddit
Because “Arkan-saaaaaw” (native here. You’d be surprised what they get on I-40)