This is another difficult situation. Since we have been cutting corners for a long

time with our longtime loyal customer, they may have been getting away with

illegal activities the whole time. Regardless of how long a customer has been with

you, it is always a good practice to follow protocols, to avoid bad situations. I

would agree with the sentiment$,$ that if you have had them long enough you don't

need to be as strict, or as hard going, but some basics should still be followed. I

work at a bank, and some of our long time customers, or people we see all the

time, we don't ID them, or ask for verification.

In this instance, since VV is a long time customer of ours, we would have some

sort of implied contract between us$,$ as well as paperwork of previous work we

had done for them. In this instance, since we always ship their goods, and they

asked us to ship them again, we did so without question. $($Beatty $187).$ The court

might rule that since we always ship their goods, and they always pay us$,$ this one

time we didn't write a contract they still are obligated to pay for the shipment.

Since my driver was pulled over for speeding in this instance, he would be

responsible for that ticket. The illegal goods however, would not be on him. We

would use the same implied contract, of how we always ship their goods, and

argue that we had no knowledge of the goods we were shipping other than the

veggies. While we could have easily just placed the marijuana in the shipment as

well as $VV,$ there is no evidence for us being the ones placing it there. This would Hopefullybe solved by security footage of VV loading the truck, and not our company.