I was simply wondering how a pickup truck loaded in such a fashion makes it through Customs. (Unless it didn’t).
I think, with that amount of pot, they would have needed one of those little green pine tree air fresheners to make sure they were able to slip past the crack US customs.
It didn’t. They use illegal aliens to carry it over the border, then load it up on trucks stolen in the Phoenix or Tucson area.
These heavy vehicles either cross illegally in the boonies loaded or sometimes the dope is hauled across by people with backpacks or even packed across with horses or burros- then picked up with a vehicle on this side.
Many loads are caught by CBP at the border crossings, but you are right this amount couldn’t really be concealed. Usually loads caught at crossings are 400 pounds or less. Whatever fits in gas tank or false bed.
Funny though several years ago a guy tried to cross at a port with several hundred pounds packed in trash bags just sitting in the bed of his truck- he must have thought smuggling was really easy. Some have constructed vehicle seats out of dope, it is amazing what you can do if you have an upholstery man to help. Usually for port crossings false compartments and natural crevices and gas tank is used, so amount is less due to space.