Yes to that, American military do not mess around, if you wander off and get too close to their aircraft they could shoot first then ask questions later.
Bizarrely enough, civilian commercial vehicles are not checked when entering RAF Brize Norton, you wait around for an ■■■■■■ who could be a civilian from a construction company for the materials being delivered.
ID shown at the front entrance and that’s it.
This discussion has come up a few times before when dogs are used to check cabs for weapons, drugs, money tobacco as they leave paw prints and hairs for anyone with allergies and so on.
How would the OP react to a full strip out of the trailer which is being escorted by two French Douane motorcycles with blue lights on and sirens, i kid you not, kids in cars look amazed by this?
The truck is taken to a suitable facility to have the whole load fork lifted off and the contents examined or they will just ■■■■■■ you to a lay-by where they have a mobile X ray scanner machine.
Conversely, I was surprised by the absolute lack of any kind of security checks and the only two ports I’ve been to, Tilbury and Ipswich. Both times stopped at the gate to ask where I was meant to go, and the guards look confused as to why Im stopping and told me to just keep going. No checks, no questions, no wanting to see paperwork, no searches.
Being new to this game Id have no idea what to do if they wanted to come rip apart my cab and snoop through everything, Id probably have gone along with it for fear of not knowing where I stand on refusing to do so. It seems a bit overzealous, but then again those overhead lockers are pretty massive, reckon I could get a good few hundred kilos of coke bricks stashed in them 
A TN member called LimeyPhil attempted to conceal some naughty stuff and got caught as it was under the bunk or customs could see it from the headboard at the top of the windscreen where some firms have their company name illuminated.
But as you rightly said there’s load of nooks and crannies to stash anything.
I knew people that made a living smuggling cigarettes and gold hidden behind the panniers of the cab doors.
Henry Stephens:
Yes to that, American military do not mess around, if you wander off and get too close to their aircraft they could shoot first then ask questions later.
Bizarrely enough, civilian commercial vehicles are not checked when entering RAF Brize Norton, you wait around for an ■■■■■■ who could be a civilian from a construction company for the materials being delivered.
ID shown at the front entrance and that’s it.
Been in there a few times had to wait over an hour once for the ■■■■■■, also got turned away as there were no escorts…
RAF regiment do have armed guards at the gate next to civvies!!
I regularly deliver into HMNB Faslane and RNAD Coulport and have never had anybody try to enter my cab.
Document and ID check on entry and then escorted by the customer in and out.
Although at Faslane they sometimes look inside the ■■■■■■ (customer) vehicle.
Biggest problem I’ve had is with the DAF and it’s 360 CCTV system which they don’t like but have never asked me to cover cameras or anything.