Re: OT Farm Eq and a Ferrari

Posted by Hugh MacKay on June 19, 2005 at 03:10:39 from (216.208.58.170):

In Reply to: Re: OT Farm Eq and a Ferrari posted by riverbend on June 17, 2005 at 19:23:10:

Riverbend: I cross both ways with commercial loads, once, twice sometimes 3 times weekly. These guys don't have an easy job. With the amount of commercial traffic, there is no way they can look in every truck. If they did, it would take a truck compound the size of most major cities on each side of the border.

I find for the most part these guys exercise good judgement. Young and new trainees tend to be more troublsome than the old hands. Just a couple of examples; US customs were going to take my lunch one morning, had there been beef in it. I pointed out that being diabetic, it's not easy to buy lunch on the road, and the volumes my good wife measures out, it was very unlikely I would share this lunch with anyone. At Canada customs one day I had some pallets on truck, I couldn't account for on paper. While there were good pallets in the stack, most were crap. He thought I should declare these and pay the 7% Canadian GST. I suggested to him, I could also offload these pallets right in the compound.

I think in the case of this Ferrari, Canada Customs were questioning value as much as anything, I overheard one customs officer tell her they were waiting for a call from Transport Canada. Saw much same one day with horses, guy with a very elaborate fifth wheel trailer and pickup, trying to tell customs officer the horses were nags. He may have been much more convincing with a 25 year old truck.

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