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jonp
Joined: 31 May 2008
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:44 am Post subject: Strangest Load Hauled |
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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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flood
Joined: 16 Jan 2007
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Location: tennesse
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| Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: |
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would this count...?
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Larry Heyns
Joined: 19 Oct 2005
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Location: Michigan
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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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Rev.Vassago
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 6227
Location: The other side of the coin
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| Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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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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BigDiesel
Joined: 01 Apr 2007
Posts: 1200
Location: Space... The Final Frontier
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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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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Twilight Flyer
Joined: 13 Nov 2002
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: A super secret hazmat load of ping-pong balls..... I would post photos, but I have been sworn to secrecy.
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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Uturn2001
Joined: 10 Jan 2005
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Location: East Central IL between the corn and the beans
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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| I once hauled a full load of intelligent dispatchers and honest recruiters from Chicago to Atlanta packed into a 53' van. :lol: :lol: :lol: |
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PhuzzyGnu
Joined: 15 Jul 2005
Posts: 354
Location: Planet Houston
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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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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stormothecentury
Joined: 31 Dec 2007
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Location: Rochester, NY
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:23 am Post subject: |
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Uturn2001 wrote: I once hauled a full load of intelligent dispatchers and honest recruiters from Chicago to Atlanta packed into a 53' van. :lol: :lol: :lol:
I call BS - there's no way there're enough of those to fill a 53'van! |
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Ronin
Joined: 30 May 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| There's likely not enough to fill a 7 passenger van! |
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jonp
Joined: 31 May 2008
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Location: Vermont
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| I was hoping for some interesting stories. |
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Fredog
Joined: 23 Apr 2005
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Location: North Georgia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:07 am Post subject: |
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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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chubyboy
Joined: 10 Jul 2008
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Location: Appleton, MN
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| ^^^plz tell me u were driving a pickup...^^^ |
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