Weirdest place to deliver?

Never went to the MO caves, but I did pick up a load out of boxes out of Livingston AL for the shrimpers along the TX coast. Two of those stops involved driving out onto the pier and backing into a dock from there. Vurra interesting.

Also, there was a stretch when I was shuttling fixtures to a Walmart going up in St. Johns Newfoundland, and had to put my truck on the ferry/icebreaker ship between the mainland and NF. Joseph and Clara Smallwood was the first and biggest...

 

There called Supersack's hold 2000 to 2500 lbs of product.

 

Groom Lake, NV. Thats all I can say about that, very high security.
We deliver to the off shore drilling rigs, pull onto a barg, a tug takes the barg out then the rig will drop a 5" hose down to the barg. takes about 2 hours to pump 58,000 Class G Cement or Ash. The barg moves with the swells so at time the hose is actually submerges at others it pulls fairly tight. But its kind of creepy. When the trailer was empty I va had the hose move the trailers from the swells pulling it tight. Just a little weird.

 

Originally Posted by Kinghunter
That place is not meant for a 53ft reefer and a 70' Freightliner Columbia.
KH

A 40 acre field might not be quite enough. eh

 

All depends on what your doing with it, Glass plants and companies that make plaster or stucco want clean white sand on color and of a specific size, anywhere from 16 to 70 grade. The hotels in Vegas like Treasure Island We take sand from Pismo Beach CA, because shells and salt add color and textures. So sand from different areas will have and affect on the final product.

I used to haul Oranges between Filmore CA and Jacksonville FL, and back so your right go figure. Same with Meat for Farmer John.

 

Yup all depends on what they're doing with it, right now some Texas drilling company is buying a crap load of sand from our aggregate here in MN. There have been 3 trainloads so far and they arent even close to being done, they want it all washed and grated. Guess we have the kind of sand they need down there. Kind of funny how sand here and sand there gets shipped all across the country.

 

This is back in the 90's before I quit driving but:

Picked up a trailer in Laredo bound for St Louis. Scrap metal. Two step unloading process in this open yard. First they had a front end loader with a big pole attached to it drag some metal out. Then they had me drop my trailer, and this other truck like no truck I had seen before hooks up to my trailer by the kingpin and picks it straight up in the air and dumped it.

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Another was I delivered a load of copy paper to an office supply place. Get to their little storage building, and the kids there do not know how to operate a forklift. I unloaded the truck with the forklift while they tailgated the pallets with a jack.

 

Been to a lot of the caves too! Some locations are really tight in there and when you have a really cold load and open the doors you can't see anything it gets so foggy. The coolest place I've been was in the Moab national park in Utah. Drove all the way down the park road along the Colorado river past the Dino footprints in the mud and hieroglyphics painted on the cliffs, toward the very end there is a potash mine. Hauled the potash to Atlanta to dog food company. Places like that make you really appreciate your job! It was actually like a trucking school advertisement!

 

Sometimes it has to do with the percentage of the different size aggregate. I have always thought it was strange to wash sand except for glass. We haul it behind cement and ash without washout (except sand loads, there wet washed).

 

Not sure what grade of sand they use, but they're going through a huge amount here in AR in natural gas frac operations.
I've been told that there's a good 15 years of steady hauling just on those jobs, and I'm tempted to find me a decent truck and pneumo tank to haul the stuff.