Give them a contract to smuggle something under the guise of transporting salvage. The authorities don’t usually bother salvage ships. All they need to do is pick up the contraband wrapped in a disguise of scrap metal, take it past Alliance patrols, and get it to the drop-off point on the fringe.

(Of course, true to the show “all they need to do” is the first sign of things going very very wrong)