What is the process for screening cargo?

What is the process for screening cargo?

We screen cargo based on risk. When you put a package into the cargo system, you have no guarantee that that piece of cargo is going to end up on an aeroplane. There's a possibility that it is going to go on a truck, or on a train. So, there is not a guarantee that any particular package is going to go in the air. Even if it is Second-Day Air, it's not going to go in the air. So, we screen the high-risk cargo, which is the counter-to-counter cargo. When a passenger, or a person, brings a package to the air cargo counter and says, "This package needs to be on Flight XYZ at 3:4 from here to there," that package is going to be screened 100 percent of the time. Some of the pieces of cargo are bigger than a car, and the technology doesn't exist to screen every piece of cargo using technology; it just isn't there. Our agency have not been appropriated the resources to be able to screen every piece of cargo, so we screen high-risk cargo.