I am going to have Cledus and Fred hauling my load, while I am going to be driving the bait car.Just saying, we gotta learn from the mistakes our forefathers, or uncles in some cases, made.
How the revenuers caught a lot of the moonshiners was by looking at the ride height of cars passing by. If the copper thought a car looked awfully low, they'd get chased. This guy, he's loading about a thousand rifles and maybe 600 gallons of Franzia Pinot Grigio! His muffler will be scraped clean off in 20 miles!
But the moonshiners fought back. Remember these runs were usually in the dark of night at very high speed. The revenuers, they would chase the suspect by following the taillights. So some clever 'shiners rigged a tail light cut-out switch and put fake "tail lights" on either side of a huge tree. They'd get up to a very high speed and as they neared the trap, turn off their taillights and a friend on the ground would turn on the lure lights. After several revenuers died in head on collisions with trees, they reached a sort of truce and the revenuers chased the shiners a little less aggressively. And the shiners stopped killing the revenuers in return.
But Hague, he's going to be driving solo and won't be able to shake the cops with all that freight in the trunk.
I'm just trying to keep one of our own outta jail!