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06-21-2008, 11:44 AM
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Strangest Load Hauled
Ok, we've all heard the "backed under a mountain and had to stay in the truck secret military base load" story so please keep this factual.
I once hauled an empty, 3 x 8ft plywood box on a flatbed from LA to Salt Lake City. It was the only thing on the trailer. They really, really wanted their box back I guess.
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06-21-2008, 06:41 PM
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would this count...?
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06-22-2008, 07:07 PM
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In the mid 1990s, I hauled the Hippie Memorial that has since been re-installed in Arcola, IL. The junk art object consisted of car body parts welded to frames similar to farm gates, and originally erected on a fence owned by Bob Moomaw, the "artist". His property was sold and the Memorial had to be moved elsewhere. My co-worker, Gus Kelsey, was a friend of Moomaw's. (These people can be verified by searching "Hippie Memorial")
Kelsey asked me to save the Memorial by hauling it from Arcola to Benton Harbor with a load of Budweiser that I picked up in St. Louis. Years later, Kelsey convinced Arcola to honor hippies and Moomaw by making a real tourist attraction, but I am not certain that the original pieces made it back home.
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06-23-2008, 12:40 AM
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A load of dinosaur fossils, from a museum in Ohio to a museum in WI. PITA to secure in the trailer, and priceless.
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06-24-2008, 08:03 PM
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A super secret hazmat load of ping-pong balls..... I would post photos, but I have been sworn to secrecy.
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06-24-2008, 11:04 PM
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A super secret hazmat load of ping-pong balls..... I would post photos, but I have been sworn to secrecy.
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Well, that and it's at the bottom of a lake somewhere. Stop trying to gloss over the facts and stick with the truth. You can't take pictures because you don't have an underwater camera. Geez.
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06-25-2008, 12:58 AM
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06-25-2008, 01:46 AM
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I hauled a single 5 gallon bucket of drugs (cocaine, mescaline, marijuana, LSD, methamphetamines, ketamine, etc., etc., etc.) back to Texas Christian University in Fort Worth from out facility in Houston.
Seems someone included some stuff from TCU's drug research lab in a Lab Pack shipment that came to our facility.
I was assure it was "probably legal" and that the company would "back me up" if something were to happen.
Yup.
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06-25-2008, 10:23 AM
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06-25-2008, 02:26 PM
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There's likely not enough to fill a 7 passenger van!
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06-28-2008, 11:47 AM
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I was hoping for some interesting stories.
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06-28-2008, 04:07 PM
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A few years back, I hauled a meat cutting machine from Charlotte to Kansas City. Total weight of load.. 500 pounds
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07-12-2008, 04:32 AM
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^^^plz tell me u were driving a pickup...^^^
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11-09-2008, 12:26 AM
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I hauled 3 pallets weighing a total of 300 lbs from Laredo, Tx to Louisville, Ky. Nothing but Saturn gauge clusters. Shipping dude took photos and had to watch my put the big meaty plastic tag on the trailer doors. He then took a pic of the tag.
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12-30-2008, 09:10 AM
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almost $13,000,000 from Rochester to Buffalo NY it went without a hitch but the next week the messenger misplaced a bag with $50,000 in it and we went into lockdown for 4 hrs till we got a phone call he left it at the wrong place and NO ONE SIGNED FOR IT!
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01-06-2009, 08:28 AM
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I haul a manual road stripe machine(it was pushable, looked like an oversize lawnmower) on an RGN from Atlanta, Ga. to Fontana, Ca. back 1997. The thing only weighed abt 300lbs.
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01-07-2009, 12:52 AM
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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!
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01-07-2009, 04:39 AM
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While driving for Freymiller, I loaded at a place that made products for Johnson & Johnson...It was a nipple factory.
Running team For DTI the codriver loaded, scaled us out at 80K. This was about the first time I experienced a "full" load. When I opened the doors to back in, the trailer was EMPTY, except for a row of pallets blocked in. The load was tin cans, before they became cans.
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When i drove a vaccum tanker i hauled 6500gals. of **** everyday 
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There have been quite a few, but one that stands out in my mind......(and elsewhere) 
15,000 lbs of viagra. This was back when it first came out. That load was worth some big bucks.
If only the ladies knew what I was carrying 
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