>>No, wait! Let’s make it even worse! Let’s allow foreign nationals to drive trucks with never-been-inspected loads right across the border and into any region of the country that they choose! Won’t that be fun?<<
I would absolutely object if we lost the right (and didn’t fulfill the obligation) to inspect cargo, no matter who is driving.
Do you happen to have a source I can look at on the no inspection thing?
No, but I do have my experience:
My company used to accept cartage from Mexico on a fairly regular basis. After taking several disastrous hits due to the Mexican supplier claiming that people outside his organization were tampering with the load, it became commonplace for the local supplier rep and myself (or my rep) to be present when the doors were opened as witnesses, each for the other.
An integral part of that meeting was to photograph the seal on the doors before opening them- A seal put in place by the Mexican manufacturer. I tell you this to help you understand how important that seal was to our normal business inspection.
Be it a container or a box trailer, I have never received a load where that seal was broken.