Absolutely not.
You take a prybar to have a peek at cargo, and you risk losing you Common Carrier license.
Reputable businessmen only book with reputable, and thus licensed, common carriers.
Now, as a life-long shipper, I learned from my father and his father about the trade of shipping, and one thing for certain, you need to know where the center mass is in order to properly secure your cargo.
Acceding to the speculation of privacy violation that pry-bar peeks may enable, the Eclectic Ferrymen Foundation (EFF) lobbied for the right of all common carriers to use alternative technologies in order to properly ascertain the central mass of one’s haul.
I myself prefer this little number from Halliburton Galaxies. Tells me exactly what I need to know.
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