Fronting is never a good idea unless collateral can be provided which would cover any losses should they happen.
Essentially your looking for a driver, not a drug dealer...
Essentially, I'm looking for quality drugs at low prices and decent quantities to make it to me without me risking a trafficking charge. What you call a driver, I call a middleman/buffer/insulation/me not going to jail even if he gets picked up, and there's never a reason for collateral because it's not like I ask some of my closest friends to take risks that I won't for free.
I don't just hand some random guy in my contact list a stack of money and tell him, "Dude... I trust you." No, that's not how it works. The people I hand my money to are people that I've trusted and/or would trust my life and freedom with, let alone my money.
Funny enough, losses with this method mainly happen when you give money to seemingly-trustworthy people who haven't yet proven that there's any reason for
you to trust them; when you're picking up off the street/alleyways, in which case you shouldn't be dealing with anything hot enough to make you want a buffer anyways; and when something unexpected comes up and a new, unfamiliar connect is being dealt with for whatever reason.
Those first two scenarios just don't happen with me because I refuse to let either of the situations unfold. The last one is something I prefer to avoid. If a regular connect is dry and refers me to someone else, I'm still sketched out. Unless I'm told explicitly that I'll be treated as family and nothing'll go wrong, I don't fuck with it. If I can't get that guarantee from somebody
I consider family then, again, I don't fuck with it.
Prison's no joke, brutha. I've never been, but a couple trips to a few detention centers have made me very, very protective of my freedom.