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.

would this count...?
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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.

A load of dinosaur fossils, from a museum in Ohio to a museum in WI. PITA to secure in the trailer, and priceless.

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.

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 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.

-p.

I call BS - there's no way there're enough of those to fill a 53'van!

There's likely not enough to fill a 7 passenger van!

I was hoping for some interesting stories.

A few years back, I hauled a meat cutting machine from Charlotte to Kansas City. Total weight of load.. 500 pounds

^^^plz tell me u were driving a pickup...^^^

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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

There have been quite a few, but one that stands out in my mind......(and elsewhere) :lol:

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 :D

When I pulled a dump trailer, I hauled the semi-solid version.:thumbsup:

I deadheaded to Pascagoula MS from Orange Tx for a load of 3, 35 gallon lever-pak drums, filled with used Tyvec garments and latex gloves. Each drum weighed about 36 pounds. That was the entire load. Had to run poison placards because of the chemicals on the gloves and garments. Hauled them to an incinerator in Grafton OH, then deadheaded back to Orange TX.

In the 70's used to take loaded trailers from vegas to yucca flats test site. 10'wide 16'long 7' tall and very heavy. No idea what it was but had DOE escorts both ways.

Say...Do they still make things go "BOOM" deep in the ground there???

I'm wondering....did you go there in 79, 80 & 81???

I went there a hand full of times...we pumped cement on top of some things that were put in the ground, on top of those things that went boom. Wondering now if I saw you there.

One big pineapple
 

I took this from Richmond,BC to Gurnee,IL. It was part of a new waterpark close to 6 flags north of Chicago. I saw so many people pull up beside me on the road and take a picture and then carry on and give me a wave.

I was there thru the late 70"s. If you were pumping concrete i may have met you.
We had 3 rules when under a load
1 do not stop unless the escort gives the okay
2 if something/someone blocks your progress see rule 1
3 if something happens you will never know

Used to be a lot of protesters at the first checkpoint. Saw Martin Sheen there quite a few times.

Oh My
 

I once pulled a load that was 1280 pounds total From South San Francisco to allentown pa the insured amount was 70 million found out it was some cancer drug from tree bark.

A load of "RAILROAD CROSSINGS" from CO to MD...
A load of sedative for the polar bears in Churchill, Canada...

Strange loads..
 

I once pulled a load of Plastic flower flats outta toledo ohio to Dallas Tx , Via atlanta Ga! The Buyer located in Atlanta Ga had to count the flats before they could be shipped onto Dallas! Dont ask me who what where or why!!!!!!!!!! Took them 20 min in Atlanta to clear me for Dallas!!! Back before gogo juice was 4buck per gallon!!


Gator

I'm not the only one on here to have hauled this, chris1 has hauled it too. The strangest load I ever hauled (did it a few times) was an entire load of frozen beef pizzle. That's the male member from a bull or steer. Apparently it's a delicasy in the far east. We used to haul it from Wisconsin to the bay area in California and from there it was shipped to Japan, China and Hong Kong.

My wife who at the time was working at the fuel desk at Burns Brothers (now TA) in Ft Bridger, WY before she ran away with me and became my wife 16 years ago asked what I was hauling. I went out to the truck, got a box out and took it back in. The girls opened it and after lots of blushing, giggling and laughing they decided to keep it. I often wondered if the chef in the kitchen took the strange looking sausage rolled up in the box in the freezer and used it as sausage in omlets.

How about the load to NYC with the barrels of bungs? Seemed like they were anxious for them. Also remember a load of maggoty spam from FL to NYC and sold to the street vendors.

Somewhere I have a picture of you pushing a pallet jack in the back of my trailer with bungs and the NYC police watching. As I remember you drove as far as the Jersey line then you refused to drive any further. :moon:

Yeah, who can forget Steve's load of Maggot Spam with all the labels in spanish and as I remember the buyer was excited when Steve pulled in with it.

You might see odd loads on flatbeds but the strangest stuff travels inside reefers well out of the publics view.

Before I got my cdl I sold auto parts and equip. , one day the Buffalo office called and was in a real jam with a customer and needed a part that we had RIGHT NOW. So we put it in the back of one of the cube vans and sent a new guy on his way, he was in such a hurry trying to make a good impression that he left his cell in the charger. He had been gone about 20 min when another driver came in and said "who took my truck".... Yep the parts still sitting here in the truck we put it in! The kid got to Buff. and had nothing but air in the back. Oh well, he made good time getting there.

I hauled a load from the Werner Laraedo TX terminal that was said to contain the latests in new driver technology that would be used to help increase company profits ...the strange part was I swear I heard voices in Spanish comming from that pre sealed/loaded trailer .

How about a load of "SKINLESS HOTDOG SKINS"...

No, it's no joke. They cook the hogdogs in the skins, then cut them off. They're made of a type of paper. Picked them up in London, TN, but don't remember where I took them... Think it was Dubuque, IA...

What did you need the 53' trailer for? That load would fit in the glove box of my truck!!

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.

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

Almost looks like it could be a "veteran" of "THE LONGEST DAY". Except it's not that kind of Sherman.

Hauled an AMC PACER once... Well, it looked like one, but they cut apart three cars to make it into a LIMO. That was a movie star too, but looking at the welding under it, I would not want to try to make it very far on the highway.