Whats the Coolest Load you ever got to Pull?
#11
07-14-2006, 04:39 AM
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!!!
#12
07-14-2006, 04:48 AM
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.
#13
07-14-2006, 05:02 AM
Ice Cream. -20F, reefer constantly on high cool.
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#14
07-14-2006, 05:04 AM
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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#15
07-14-2006, 06:23 AM
Trailer load of plasma televisions right before the Super Bowl! :lol:
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#16
07-14-2006, 06:40 AM
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Took just over 5 weeks. It was built in Tx. but was finished to late to get on the barge lift which could only get into Pruhoe Bay once a year so they had to truck it. Paid the truck $88,000 plus all expences including fuel, pilot cars (3) motels etc. That was 1980s $s When it got to Fairbanks they hooked a heavy hauler up to it and put a push truck behind it and took it up the haul road.
#18
07-14-2006, 08:15 AM
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Heavy hauling pays big $s, that's why I do it
 Thing is is that if that is all you pull you are gona sit a lot. This load was actualy farly cheap for the size and hassle, came out to about $8.50 a mile when you take deadhead from Fl. to Tx. then loaded Tx. to Ak. then deadhead Ak. to Fl. plus even broken down and loaded on it's self this trailer is a permit load. Plus I sat a week in Fairbanks till the trailer came back from the North Slope.
#20
07-14-2006, 08:57 AM
Originally Posted by shahan
You got a years pay in one load?
Do that 5 times a year, and take the other 4 months off. :wink: |
