Old Salt wrote on Jun 4^th, 2010 at 2:44pm:

You might also want to evaluate your attitudes/behavior/language at border crossings to reduce chances of a search. I've never had a problem...

Any group of males within a couple years of 20 years old who are travelling on their own across the border are going to attract quite a bit more scrutiny than a group of guys on the wrong side of 40 and all wearing wedding rings.  Us old farts get waved thru pretty quickly most of the time.

That said, attitude/language/behavior can be the difference between an honest attempt to verify your intentions and your cargo is what you say it is and a full-scale teardown of you, your vehicle, and cargo in order to teach a lesson about good manners.

I have seen a group being taught manners at customs.  It was not a pretty sight.  My guess is they had hours to go (another hour of search and about 3 hours to repack, including replacing every lure in their tackle boxes from the heap of tangled hooks on the ground)