Commercial Smuggling Course
What You’ll Learn
Inside the Cab: How Drugs and Money Move Across the Country Hidden in Plain Sight
You’ve pulled over trucks. You’ve inspected vehicles.
But have you ever heard how the smuggling actually works from someone who did it?
This 4-hour course dives deep into the world of commercial smuggling, from local transport operations to nationwide drug and money pipelines. Taught by Richard W. Laferriere, a former car hauler turned trafficker, this session offers firsthand knowledge of how traffickers exploit legitimate trucking companies, falsify paperwork, and blend narcotics into the everyday flow of freight.
Course Overview
This training pulls back the curtain on how organized crime uses commercial transportation to move massive quantities of drugs, cash, and contraband. You’ll learn how trucks are infiltrated, routes are chosen, loads are disguised, and systems are built for long-term, low-risk operations.
Rich doesn’t just describe the methods, he lived them.
Topics include:
- The logistics mindset: how transportation pros become traffickers
- Common methods used to smuggle drugs and money in tractor trailers
- Real examples of hidden compartments and concealment tricks
- How cartels and organized crime groups (Mafia, Hells Angels, Mexican cartels) operate across borders using U.S. infrastructure
- Why traditional enforcement misses the signs and how to sharpen your detection
What Sets This Course Apart
Most commercial smuggling training focuses on statistics or broad warning signs. This course is different because it is taught by someone who lived it. Rich Laferriere spent years using commercial freight and trucking companies to move drugs and money nationwide, avoiding detection while working with major organized crime groups. He knows exactly how smugglers exploit gaps in enforcement and how they build layers of plausible deniability that make them hard to catch.
In addition to Rich’s firsthand perspective, this course gives participants:
- Real examples of hidden compartments and concealment methods rarely covered in traditional training
- A clear understanding of how traffickers infiltrate or build trucking companies to facilitate operations
- Practical tips and red flags to sharpen detection skills during stops, inspections, and investigations
Wondering Why You Should Trust Us?
Who is Rich Laferriere?
Richard ‘Rich’ Laferriere isn’t your typical law enforcement instructor. For more than 20 years, he operated at the highest levels of drug smuggling, moving over 10 tons of marijuana, 1,200 pounds of cocaine, and millions in cash without detection. After being apprehended, he spent more than a decade as a DEA informant, helping federal agents dismantle major trafficking networks. Rich has authored books on his experiences and has trained thousands of law enforcement officers across the country, sharing the rare firsthand knowledge needed to understand, identify, and dismantle criminal operations. His perspective offers the kind of insight no textbook or traditional instructor can provide.
Topics Covered
- Entry-level smuggling tactics using work vehicles
- National and international trafficking routes and methods
- How traffickers embed within legit trucking companies
- The evolution from infiltrating someone else's company to owning your own
- The power of compartmentalization and why it's a smuggler’s best defense
- How traffickers use DOT blind spots and federal loopholes to their advantage
Who Should Attend
- Criminal interdiction officers
- Commercial vehicle enforcement units
- Narcotics investigators
- State and local patrol officers who interact with trucking daily
- Agencies training officers in transportation-based smuggling awareness
Format & Delivery
- 4-hour session delivered in person or via Zoom
- Includes real case breakdowns, concealment visuals, and live Q&A
- Can be paired with related courses (Confessions or DEA Handler) for expanded multi-day training
Ready to Book This Course?
Most traffickers don’t write a training manual for law enforcement.
Rich just turned his experience into one.
Call or Text: 860-338-0667
Email: Rich@coadstraining.com