Strangest Load Hauled

[roady91]

Once had a load going to Pueblo, CO, was labeled as air conditioner parts on the bills. Got to the destination, which was a military base, of which no one informed me I was going to a military base. Get inside they direct me to the warehouse. Stop, MP breaks the seals, I open the doors, look in, and much to my surprise I didn't know air conditioner parts where shaped like missile war heads, that clearly where labeled: US Military. Sat in the waiting area in the warehouse, which happened to have nothing but war heads. I said to the MP, "Interesting looking air conditioner parts" and he just ignored me. And this is a true story.

Oh ****! I can imagine you didn't expect that! Why don't I ever haul anything cool or unusual?

[Jumbo]

I didnt haul this but i took a picture of this movie star on a truck, brownie points for who can tell me what movie

That looks like one of our trailers. I am gonna guess Tank Girl or Bridges of Madison County.

[slowmover]

Had a few weird ones on the skateboard. Favorite, though, was a load of horse manure from a stud farm in Kentucky. Those Thoroughbreds had only the best diet I was told, so this load of horse cr#p was valuable to the customer in Michigan. No tarp, "product" had been baled in a fashion.

Best part was that it stunk. Grreeeen. Summer. Humid, but not hot. Mild breeze. Made it a point to park upwind at the truck stop that night, right between two reefers . . . and in listening to the CB finally felt I had some payback for all the nights I tried to sleep with windows open and a reefer would pull in right next to me just to wake me up.

Delivered next morning to a mushroom farm.

[matcat]

Had a few weird ones on the skateboard. Favorite, though, was a load of horse manure from a stud farm in Kentucky. Those Thoroughbreds had only the best diet I was told, so this load of horse cr#p was valuable to the customer in Michigan. No tarp, "product" had been baled in a fashion.

Best part was that it stunk. Grreeeen. Summer. Humid, but not hot. Mild breeze. Made it a point to park upwind at the truck stop that night, right between two reefers . . . and in listening to the CB finally felt I had some payback for all the nights I tried to sleep with windows open and a reefer would pull in right next to me just to wake me up.

Delivered next morning to a mushroom farm.

Pure evil!

The humm of a motor actually helps me sleep, I usually have trouble falling asleep if my motor isn't running, but then again I was always the type too to put on a fan on just for the sound to sleep to.

[toycarparkinglot]

I've hauled a few like that.....lol

[toycarparkinglot]

Never had any load I considered truly weird, although my teenaged daughter seemed to find it hilarious to know her ol' dad was dragging around 35,000 lbs of tampons one night.

Kids.. go figure!

Stole my thunder there.....I had a full load of "manhole covers" errrr tampons...dragged it all the way from Shreveport to Montreal, Quebec.

[matcat]

I just delivered a load of french fries, does that count?

[Tonup]

I didnt haul this but i took a picture of this movie star on a truck, brownie points for who can tell me what movie

Know this is a old thread, but the tank was used in the movie "Kelly's Heros".

[lucky2]

Well we just hauled 3000 lbs. of empty plastic bottles from north carolina to mississippi in a 53 ft. van. And they wanted them on a rush .

[VPIDarkAngel]

Well we just hauled 3000 lbs. of empty plastic bottles from north carolina to mississippi in a 53 ft. van. And they wanted them on a rush .

Coke bottles, or Pepsi bottles?

[cycle1667]

When I first went otr we hauled 2 secret service vehicles from Davis Monthan AFB, Tucson, to FBI facility in Quantico, VA. The boys who loaded in Tucson chocked the wheels, nailed to the bed but didn't set the brake or put it in park after maneuvering the suburbans into place. All was fine until VA where I came around a tight corner and the trucks were lined up for the scale. I slowed abruptly and heard a crunch come from the trailer. When I got out to inspect, the trailer nose was pushed out and the vehicles were piled up in the nose. Fortunately for me the suburbans were surrounded by a tubing cage welded to the frame. When I dropped them in Qauntico they didn't say boo.
I learned about double checking my load.

[ronjon619]

they didn't tie them down from the frame of the cars? They just used wheel chalks?

[geeshock]

nope, thats how we hauled sprinter vans if they were hauled in trailers. they drove them up set wood blocks and nailed them. of course we at least had the parking brake on.

[Luzon]

Weird isn't really a good word - interesting is more appropriate.

I once hauled a load from Miami to Tampa that filled a 53'er and it weighed in at just over 500 lbs. It was the filter material that goes in the household air filters. 6' tall rolls that weighed about 15 lbs each.

I remember a story in my first orientation class at May. The guy told me about walking back to his truck at a truck stop and saw this guy crying. He asked what was wrong. The guy just opened the back of his trailer and it was full of broken cardboard boxes containing burst potato chip bags, and potato chips everywhere. Evidently this guy who picked up the load somewhere up in New England was routed down I-95, then along I-10, and then up I-5 in California to Sacramento or somewere. Turns out this guy said "screw that, I'm going I-80. Sometimes, not often, but sometimes, the dispatchers are correct - i guess.

[VPIDarkAngel]

Well, this isn't the strangest load delivered, but rather the strangest box delivered. I knew this was bound to happen, given the way our trailers get loaded. At my first stop of the week, in Princeton, WV, I was sorting through the boxes of stuff that were loaded on top of the rolltainers, and one fell rather lightly onto the floor. It was marked "Empty Pallet Filler" or something like that. I just threw it onto the sidewalk and thought nothing of it, since it was so light. When I took into the store and showed it to the store manager, I noticed the label on it (Every case of freight we deliver to stores has a label on it, with store number, product description, and other info). It said "Always Tampon Display." The box was empty. Maybe that was one of the reasons why product fell out of the trailer when I opened the doors...

[Blacksheep]

I took 6000 gallons of cow teat sanitizer up to a farm in Wisconsin, does that count ?

[VPIDarkAngel]

When i drove a vaccum tanker i hauled 6500gals. of **** everyday

... and now that's an everyday thing, eh?

[Southron]

Once my co-driver and I had to pick up a load of women's undergarments from Vanity Fair in GA. Not really strange, but interresting. On my log sheets, I listed my cargo as "Panties"

[wot i life]

Not really a strange load per se, but distance travelled with such low value load was perplexing; picked up polystyrene packaging(you know those corner pieces, protecting a new tv or pc) in Bo'ness, Scotland and took them to Santa Palomba di Roma, Italy.
Return load was flat pack kitchens(****e and cheap) so no money to be made there either
Transport management? Could not arrange a pish up in a brewery

Hope link works. My destination was on 'Via Ardeatina' which is on this map. Huge I.B.M factory there

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&...ed=0CB0Q8gEwAA

Just checked on google maps and a comparable journey in the U.S would be something like San Antonio to Washington DC

[snoopyandpuppy]

Besides the criminals that I haul, LOL, I have transported a Barbary Coast Lion cub in the backseat of my police car. And for those that ask why I am here, I used to drive a straight truck delivering ice (20+years ago) and hope to get my CDL in a year or two when I retire. Trying to get some inside knowledge of the business.