Gee!! And "I" just thought they sent them into a stall with a copy of HEIFER! ops: :wink:

 

That must be nice!



When I drove for SMX, I had a weird trip once. I unloaded a load of sheetrock at a Home Depot in Dallas. I talked to my dispatcher, and he told me that I had one going to Big Sur,CA. Got my preload on my qualcomm. I was going to California! :shock: I picked up a pre-load of I beam, and C Iron in Terrell, Tx. Outside of Dallas. After stopping by the house for a day, I made it out there. After making my way across California, I finally made it. :shock: I drove up HWY 1, along the coast. Most beautiful country, but what a ride. I thought I was gonna fall off the sides of the mountains, a time or 2. Little curves, that I wouldnt want to try making in my pickup. :shock: HWY 1 is a very tight, curvy, tiny highway along the coast. I made it up there, and there is a store, and a little shopping center. A few houses. I went inside the little store, and I talked to them about my load. They didnt know anything about it. I called my dispatcher, and talked to him. After talking to him, it actually ended up being delivered at a construction site in Hanford, CA. I went back inside the store, and I got something to snack on. By this time, I was nearly out of hours. My nerves were shot from the ride, but I kept going. I finally made my way back to Hanford. (if yall ever get over there, drive up HWY 1 :P - quite a trip) Of course, I'm out of hours, so I play with my log book, and I found a mall in Hanford. Not big, but big enough for me to park, and eat. The next morning, I get directions to this construction site. After all, it was some dude, building a shop to work on low riders. Some construction site. No forklift, nothing. Just a grass lot. The customer had to call a place to rent a forklift, and they came out, unloaded me.

 

One time had a haz-mat load black barrels flamable and corrosive going to coke in Atlanta turns out the sweetner in coke is flamable, another time took boxes of beef bones out of Liberal,Ks going to kraft foods in Ohio the guy on the dock said they take the bone marrow out and use it in jello thats what makes it giggle. One neat load was a wing of a 747 took it to Boeing in Seattle took it to the hanger were there were five planes under construction got a little tour of the factory really neat.

 

Best load for me was running team with my father had 1 briefcase from Madison WI to Fullerton CA for Kraft Foods. They lost the recipe for a new type of lunchable and we had to take it to them ASAP.

 

Should have written down the new recipe. :P

 

This must have been BEFORE airplanes! Today, this kind of stuff is handled by a courier with a briefcase and a first class ticket! Be there in 6 hours for about $400. :roll:

 

And email.

 

Or even just fax machines.

 

Nope in 1998 with a regular load of product going there. Kraft figured why pay a employee to fly from Mad Wi to Minn then to Ontario CA then back. Ever tried to buy a last minute airline ticket got about 1500 bucks to spend round trip for coach. Then throw in a hotel room and then the employees wages. The bill of lading stated 43000 lbs of lunchmeat in combo bins and 1 briefcase weight 10 lbs. We got it there in 36 hours.

 

The last outfit I worked for sold some trailers to another down in CA.
I ended up taking one of sold trl's down there with a load meat from maple leaf in Canada to U.S. growers in L.A.. After unloading got the trl washed in and out then took it over to that little truckstop on Santa fe and dropped it, Ok here's where it gits kinda weird.
I called in and was told to go to Mount Sinai Memorial Park!?!?!? I asked what for, And the boss said that there was a trl with recently exhumed bodies that they were moving to Sacramento. I pull up to the gait and the little jewish dude in the shack asks if I'm here for the services, and I said nope here for the bodies he got a kinda alarmed WTF look and said wait here. Then all of a sudden I was surrounded by a whole herd of little jewish dudes wondering WTF also. I called in an told the boss that something wasnt right and he started laughing I think I even heard him fall out of his chair. It turns out I just there to pick up a trl for a mausoleum contractor and it was just full of tools and such but , it was still goin to a Sacramento cemetery. I think out of all the places I've slept it was the most peaceful.