Perhaps it's different at other border crossings. Here in the Great Lakes part of Ontario, the border is always over water, so the Canadian border guards are on the Canadian side, and the Americans on the American side. There are no u-turns on a bridge elevated 1000 ft above the water. I could see land crossings being a much different affair.
I just found a cool map showing where the main freight flow in and out of Canada is... http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freight/freight_analysis/nat_freight_stats/tons_can_lo.htm Tim 1982 300TD (still for sale) 1991 300TE 4Matic ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:38:06 -0500 From: Steve MacSween <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [MBZ] New wagon on 12/18/06 12:49 AM, TimothyPilgrim at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one go about that? I mean, do you have to drive back to Canada, then wait forever in the US-bound lineup, or can you drive right to the US customs office from the same side of the border?
No and yes. In practice it's quite easy. There is really no issue with making a U-ie as you approach an OUTBOUND border crossing, as you are only (unless the crossing has an alert on) being screened INBOUND when you enter the other country. Until that point you can pretty much do as you like. That may change with the introduction of the combined border crossings, the first of which is now operating I believe somewhere in Ontario? The US and Cdn border services agencies will operate in a single, combined post. This is partly why our bend-the-pennies national government is FINALLY starting to issue sidearms to border agents. I imagine so they can shoot the U.S. agents when they put ketsup on their ice cream, in the shared lunchrooms. Mac
