Through the "Krasnoilsk" checkpoint, the citizen of Ukraine traveled to Romania in a truck with an empty tank, as stated in the documents. But with the help of a scanner in the front and back of the tank, the border guards, together with the State Security Service and the State Security Service, discovered 8 rows of extraneous attachments. In the course of further measures, law enforcement officers seized 65,000 packs of cigarettes without excise tax stamps worth over 4.5 million hryvnias.

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Honestly, do you even need a scanner? I'd think that that'd be smuggling enough that it'd show up as a weight discrepancy. We have weigh stations all over internally in the US, and I assume that at ports of entry, they're definitely gonna weigh trucks.

https://www.quora.com/How-many-grams-of-tobacco-are-in-a-cigarette

I found that a full pack of 20 standard Filter cigarettes weighed 24.3 grams.

Setting aside the weight of any extra packaging around it, that'd be about 1,580 kg.

Maybe fuel can make up that difference.

googles

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-many-gallons-does-it-take-to-fill-up-a-big-rig

Most big rigs in the U.S. have tanks that range in capacity from 120 gallons per tank up to 150 gallons and depending on the radius of operation, may have one tank for shorter hauls or two tanks for longer ones.

For fleets that are weight conscious, they often choose to run just one tank allowing for more payload since each tank of fuel weighs around 1,000 pounds.

No, that'd be 907 kg for two 1000 lb tanks, even if you go all the way from totally full to totally empty. I figure that there's some allowance for personal items in a truck changing, but 600 kg seems like it'd probably be off that scale.