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Random_Facts
Joined: 06 Mar 2006
Posts: 559
Location: Northern California
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:34 am Post subject: Whats the Coolest Load you ever got to Pull? |
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| Curious, Anyone got to pull a really awesome load? Like I saw someone pulling an Army Tank on a flat bed. That was pretty cool. Or the over sized cranes that some of thoughs people haul. Or even this one guy had like 30 wheels going through nevada emtpy flat bed but sure long could you picture trying to turn in that? lol. |
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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 6239
Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: |
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50,000 lbs of human poop.
Oh wait - you wanted cool loads, not stinky loads.
My bad. |
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jroqueman
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
Posts: 200
Location: Ohio
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 3:05 am Post subject: Cars |
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| I have hauled almost anything that you can imagine that has tires. I hauled one load of vintage cars that was valued at over 11 million. That was cool. |
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west_coaster
Joined: 13 Nov 2004
Posts: 143
Location: Oregon
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 4:35 am Post subject: Beer... |
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Beer, Budweiser to be exact. 53 feet and 43,000 lbs. of beer. If that's not a good load, I don't know what is...
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Templedawg
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| jet engine to an F/18 fighter, if I could have got it lit, I could have passed those darn cluck trucks |
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dollarshort
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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Location: South Central PA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: Cool Load |
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Got to haul a load of postage stamps once. Only had 8 pallets on the trailer but load was worth a few million. By the way I had car follow me all the way to my destination.
Also, took a load of equipment for the Army to Fort Irwin in California about a year ago. It came from Virginia and they called me every six hours from the time I picked up the load. When I arrived at the base there way a plane waiting for me. I backed up to the plane on the runway, they off loaded the equipment and off to Iraq it went. Pretty awsome. |
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FlyByWire
Joined: 19 Feb 2005
Posts: 235
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:07 am Post subject: |
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12 sidewinder missiles (not armed of course) with the heat sensor's/tracking thingy installed in the nose.... It was for a contractor out of Luke AFB here in Phoenix...
The guy showed me how they calibrate the heat sensors.. really awesome stuff... I had to drive to a building on a road that was litteraly 30 feet from taxi-ing F16's... cool stuff!
We also take wheel blanks to Bourget's here in Phoenix too... now THAT is a cool operation. |
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Blind Driver
Joined: 12 Apr 2006
Posts: 496
Location: New Albany, IN
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 7:15 am Post subject: |
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| Wouldn't a cool load require a reefer? :wink: |
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Fozzy
Joined: 02 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:13 am Post subject: |
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| I pulled a van with a brand new custom T.V. newsroom set for a New Orleans TV Station in it. It was from a company in NC. The load was screwed into the floor and braced like crazy. When I got in downtown New Orleans in the middle of the night it was really a snap to get into the fenced yard. When I got unloaded ( I helped and even got on the news that day and fed free pizza) I couldn't get of out of the lot! There were cars parked on both sides of the street and there was just no way to get out of the gates and onto the street. I had to sit there in the parking lot until the evening when everyone finally started moving their cars. It did give me a chance to goof off in N.O. for the rest of the day though :D |
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Walking Eagle
Joined: 02 Jan 2006
Posts: 400
Location: Normaly on the road
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:28 am Post subject: |
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Biggest thing I ever pulled, from Denton Tx. to Fairbanks Ak.
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Templedawg
Joined: 05 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 10:39 am Post subject: |
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| what in the world is that and what does it pay to pull from Tx to Ak? That has got to be one long trip!!! |
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Webby
Joined: 08 Jun 2006
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It appears to be an oilfield production unit... Gas seperator, used in first stage of refining oil/gas.
Yep, from Denton to Fairbanks for that load is amazing! It would appear to me that it would be more economical to have built that on location. |
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PackRatTDI
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
Posts: 1004
Location: Las Cruces, NM
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Ice Cream. -20F, reefer constantly on high cool. |
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lifespalette
Joined: 08 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 11:04 am Post subject: |
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I don't know about the coolest... but one of the funniest I ever hauled was a box full of super balls.....27,000 lbs worth.....not the heaviest load, but when we got to the destination, one of the fork lift drivers dropped a 4X4 crate and supper balls went ever where.................I damned near peed in my pants laughing so hard.........it was something right out of the Keystone Cops just in color.
Some guy looks up and says, "You gonna help clean this mess up?" I pulled out my BOL.... hmmmm says dock to dock.........the way I see it, they're on your dock in your warehouse.......my job's done, bang on the sleeper when I'm empty. The ball he threw at me missed, hit the roll up door jamb column and shot across the warehouse..............bet that's one they didn't find. |
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movinit
Joined: 21 Apr 2006
Posts: 440
Location: Changes by the minute
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| Posted: Fri Jul 14, 2006 12:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Trailer load of plasma televisions right before the Super Bowl! :lol: |
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