What was your most interesting load or run?

When I drove for Keen transport I picked up a landing craft from WWII that was used in the filming of saving private Ryan and a band of brothers. I picked it up in Pa. And took out to a private collector in Utah who has the largest private collection of WWII memombilla in the US. After I delivered the load he gave me a tour of 3 of the 6 warehouses full of stuff. To top it off he gave me a $100 dollar tip for delivering the load.

 

I hauled a human heart for the Baptist Hospital in Memphis TN once. It was in a little cooler. Just had to plug it in the cig lighter to keep it cold. Every now and then I would have to give it a squeeze to keep it pumping.

 

Showed up to a chemical Distributer in Detroit Mi early morning before they opened for a delivery.I had been there before so I backed in. It was a outside dock sloping down and the Dock area had about 3 feet of water in it. In the morning when the receiver woke me up I was shocked to see roof was burned completely out. They opened up and took my 4 pallets of drums but the place was just a shell of a building from a fire the day before I showed up. Just Block walls no roof and every drum they had in their warehouse was either melted or the top blown out of it like a cartoon.

Now that this was the next day the morning paper had a write up about the fire saying the place was now like a chemical soup. I thought whoa crap I guess that explains the 3 feet of water my trailer tires are sitting in.

 

Too many to count. For every interesting load I must have had like a dozen boring loads of toilet paper or something. Ugh.

One came out of the US Military Depot in Summit PA, near York. That one was sent to the Pentagon downtown DC. I knew nothing about that 40 foot box. Absolutely nothing at all. Everyone treated me rather badly in that particular run. I never got to see the pentagon with it, there was a tractor waiting in a lot where I was told to go and wait. That tractor took the box without so much as a thank you.

I got paid for that one. Eventually. I think they got tired of my checking and threw the payroll at me lol.

Come to think of it, I would run many more loads into and around DC, it became more of a combat mission than anything else once everyone started to get really aggressive on the beltway. The motor cades were the worst. The entire 4 lane road would part like the sea at Moses command exept stupid ol me in the middle refusing to move out of the way lol. what a mess.

Im glad those days are gone and over with once I made US 15 a habit.