Foz, whether or not 'they' are trucker tales I do not know, but I can tell you that police do catch illegal things from illegal people doing illegal stuff all the time, it's common enough that unless the crap is worth high 6 figures coming in or out of the borders no one reports on it anymore.
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U.S. Customs Service patrol officers, special agents, inspectors and air interdiction officers, Pima County Sheriff's Department officers, Tohono O'Odham Police Department officers, and National Park Service rangers seized approximately 9,469.3 pounds of marijuana, 2.1 pounds of cocaine, and made 24 arrests between November 30 and December 12 during Operation Cobija. Operation Cobija is an enhanced counter-smuggling and drug interdiction effort involving personnel from all of the above listed law enforcement organizations.
http://www.cbp.gov/hot-new/pressrel/1998/1214-00.htm
That article was from 1998 from barely 3 weeks of work, the 'business' grows every year.
Here is a more 'recent' one, as in this past week.
http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/newsroom/...s/03062007.xml
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Wellton, Ariz. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection Border Patrol agents working southeast of Tacna, Ariz., discovered two abandoned vehicles containing nearly 3,500 pounds of marijuana Monday morning.
Hell you I'm sure know as well as any trucker on here just how easy it would be to stuff a bale or three down into a tank to make some 'extra money' on your delivery. DOT/police just don't have the manpower to check all trucks. (thus the reason more than 75% of all freight being imported on ships aren't checked)[/quote]