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Don't speed when you're carrying coke Whaft that? You've brought back an arlic load of cigarettes for your own consumption? Almost believable if you want a voice like Pat Butcher in EastEnclers.
But spare a thought for the poor Colombian driver, who managed to crash his truck on a Colombian highway and spill one tonne of cocaine all over the highway. The driver, who escaped injury but not arrest, flipped the truck while taking a corner toe fast in a clear case of white line fever.
Colombian police say the drug was hidden in the truck's roof and walls, which ripped open during the crash. The deadly load was heading to the northern port of Uraba, one of the major exit points for the country's burgeoning drug smuggling industry.
Perhaps the driver should have read Commercial Motor and equipped himself with the newest Electronic Stability Control.
• In the early 1980s US president Ronald Reagan decided to clamp down on truck drivers' drug abuse by introducing random drug testing. Back then, truckers did not have the best reputation in the world.
It was decided that implementing the measure tad quickly could result in a shortage of truck drivers, which could in turn plunge the nation's economy into recession. After the implementation the rate was stepped up gradually to combat the problem, with big success.
And in general truckers now have the friendly image they deserve.