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  Roger
  I agree with you wholeheartedly however you will find that most of these drivers are under tremendous financial pressure to make a living and are targetted by the criminals who after a time wear the driver down by lending him cash which he gladly accepts normally at this time of the year only to ask for him to repay the loan at short notice or lose his lorry and or his fingers or both.The driver is sucked into a no win situation and agrees to carry the drugs just to pay off his loan.
  
  Another case was of a man from Northern Ireland whose family were held hostage unless he picked up and brought drugs through Dover.He was a professional lorry driver of 18years or so.He was told by the paramilitary organisation that failure to comply would result in the loss of his wife and kids lives and his own when and not if they caught up with him.He put his drugs on the passenger seat in the hope he would get caught and then take his chances in the court.But in the eyes of the terrorists he had at least attemted to placate and fulfil their request therefore saving his familys lives.
  
  After a very long and complicated trial he was found not guilty..the jury believed him and the expert witnesses who spoke on his behalf.
  
  So Roger not everything we read is clear cut and the drivers are normally at the lower end of the chain.Yes they have to be stopped but wouldn't be nice if sometimes we could read about the arrest of a high profile city man that was Mr Big and the brains and money behind the organisation.

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