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skibum_63 · **^ Top** #51 04.26.2009

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Originally Posted by Big "A"

Hauled to a paper mill in TN where u pull your truck and trailer on a ramp and they pick the whole thing up and dumps into a pit. you operate the controls for the dump.

I have a friend that pulls for GTI, she sent me a pic of her truck 'up in the air' at a paper recycling plant. I'll see if i can find it. And post it.

I would be a bit nervous as the driver , and being the one who operates the controls to raise it up.

What if something mechanical/ elcetrcial failed,,, your stuck in the UP poistion. lol

wsyrob · **^ Top** #52 04.27.2009

Delivered a tank load of water treatment polymer to a gold mine in Carlin Nevada. Once you get inside the gate you are required to drive on the left side of the road like they do in Europe. You are also sharing the road with dump trucks that make an 18 wheeler look like a 4 wheeler they are so big.

Red Fox · **^ Top** #53 04.27.2009

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Originally Posted by Hurryupandwait

While we're on the subject of the weirdest loads, I used to deliver mail to post offices. I would collect mail from the post offices on the way back that had to be sent out to the bigger cities as well. One day I was picking up the mail and there was a red and white thermos cooler sitting on top of a bunch of mail (at least I thought it was a cooler) I figured it was part of someones lunch so I grab it and low and behold there are these big stickers on it saying Caution HUMAN EYES Extremely Fragile. I didn't have to deliver them to the hospital though, I was told they went down by bus at night if you can believe that.

The container I picked up was empty and was just being returned.

My wife has one of those corneas in her eye. It's the only one she can see out of and is hoping to get the other one done. I'm gonna tell her she's back on the bus!

OntheRoad2 · **^ Top** #54 04.28.2009

i pulled in a huge barn like where there was about 15 people there watching me.. as soon as i got signed off on my reciept they were gone (no it wasnt lunch time) i mean its crazy..its one of my favorite places to go.i try to see,but i guess they wait for the right moment. then.. boom.GONE! lol..

trailmaker · **^ Top** #55 04.30.2009

been to the caves, very interesting place.

Lonesome · **^ Top** #56 04.30.2009

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I took Fla. oranges to Cally and Cally oranges back to Fla.
Something to do with the difference between eating and juicing. I'd forgotten all about it until this thread.

One time, as an O/O, I picked up a load of scrap paper, in Port Huron, Michigan. It went across the border to a paper mill on the east side of Toronto. Then I deadheaded to the west side of Toronto, picked up load of scrap paper, and delivered it to a paper mill in Port Huron, Michigan.

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Hauled to a paper mill in TN where u pull your truck and trailer on a ramp and they pick the whole thing up and dumps into a pit. you operate the controls for the dump.

I've seen trucks at the Jays Potatoe Chip plant, in Chicago, and the old Seyferts plant, in Fort Wayne, unload reefer loads of potatoes that way. Quick and easy! A little unnerving, though, seeing a trailer way up in the air like that.

ordinaryguy · **^ Top** #57 04.30.2009

i once hauled 55 gallon drums of laundry soap into Menard State Prison, in Menard, IL....place was built in 1873 and not made for a 53'...but it was kinda cool, convicts unloaded me heh cheap labor!

Red Fox · **^ Top** #58 05.01.2009

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Originally Posted by Lonesome

I've seen trucks at the Jays Potatoe Chip plant, in Chicago, and the old Seyferts plant, in Fort Wayne, unload reefer loads of potatoes that way. Quick and easy! A little unnerving, though, seeing a trailer way up in the air like that.

Looking at the bruises on the potatoes at the store, I wonder...

barrier12 · **^ Top** #59 05.01.2009

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Originally Posted by wsyrob

Delivered a tank load of water treatment polymer to a gold mine in Carlin Nevada. Once you get inside the gate you are required to drive on the left side of the road like they do in Europe. You are also sharing the road with dump trucks that make an 18 wheeler look like a 4 wheeler they are so big.

Like they do in England. Europe itself is "normal"

Rat Fink · **^ Top** #60 05.03.2009

When I was in the oilfield I had to drive to a wellsite. As usual, the first part of the directions were typical backroads type directions (drive 1.2km, then turn left, drive 3.5 more kms, turn right, etc.).

It got wierd when they told me to "turn right at the bull". They explained it further and told me there's a farm field there with a bull that lives on that property. They said "don't worry, he's always there!"

Sure enough, I got down that road and there was a bull standing at the corner of the field looking at me, right at the intersection I was supposed to turn at. Go figure.

Not the strangest place I've been to, but definately the strangest directions!

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