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Weirdest load you ever hauled.

Discussion in 'Flatbed Trucking Forum' started by Spankster1, Mar 2, 2014.

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  1. Mar 2, 2014 #1
    Spankster1

    Spankster1 Bobtail Member

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    I am new here and I searched the threads to see if this question had been asked and with as little patience as I have, I didn't find one so thought I would ask. I am 59 years old and have pulled flat/step for the past 25 years of my 40 years of driving and have hauled some crazy stuff but the one that really sticks in my mind is in 1977 I picked up in Morgan City, La. at the docks. It was a diver decompression chamber...with the diver still in it. I hauled it(and him) to a hospital in New Orleans, I had a state cop in front, an ambulance behind, and a doctor in the cab with me on walkie talkies so he could talk to the diver and the ambulance crew, I could only drive 45 mph and was allowed to drive in the left lane on I 10 because back then the road was so bad in the right lane that they were afraid it would bounce the diver around too much. When I got to New Orleans they cleared the whole street so I could back into the building at the recieving door. It paid 5.50 a mile and lunch and breakfast was paid for. While unstrapping the chamber I saw the diver in the little window giving me a big ole thumbs up. 1st load I ever hauled that said thank you.
     
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  3. Mar 2, 2014 #2
    Mev

    Mev Road Train Member

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    I've done a few loads that ran out near Area 51 , but i really cant go into detail :yes2557:
     
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  4. Mar 2, 2014 #3
    dblr

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    42,000 lbs of corndogs oregon to alabama
     
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  5. Mar 2, 2014 #4
    gpsman

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    Never hauled much unusual but I have driven off-road in Glacier and Yellowstone delivering to firefighter camps. Those were pretty good gigs, $15/hour, every hour, and strict adherence to HOS required.
     
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  7. Mar 2, 2014 #5
    southpaw2153

    southpaw2153 Light Load Member

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    I picked up 6,000 gallons of fish oil from someplace in eastern Virginia. That place stunk to hell!! Also picked up a tanker load of hot wax that went to some hole-in-the-wall candle place in Pa. :biggrin_25517:
     
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  8. Mar 2, 2014 #6
    realsupatrucka

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    Airplane tugs that pull the plane
     
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  9. Mar 2, 2014 #7
    Flightline

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    I did what is called a Milatary Blue Bark load.
    Meet the wife of a milatary decest that died over seas, to load and haul his personal car to her home town all under her supervision.
    Not as strange as above but paid well.
     
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  10. Mar 2, 2014 #8
    Lepton1

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    It wasn't a load I was hauling, but about three months ago I was driving somewhere in the Carolinas in a driving rainstorm and noticed a bull hauler overtaking me in the hammer lane. As he was passing me I noticed that it seemed to be a double decker and looked over to see if it was pigs...

    ... and was staring into the eyes of a Bengal tiger looking right at me with a look that said, "Snack?"
     
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  11. Mar 2, 2014 #9
    h11way

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    Bee's, old log cabin from the 1700's that had been dismantled and was going to be reassembled. Most interesting was a container load of antiques from Sweden.They were going through the thing's as they were unloaded.Interesting items.
     
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  12. Mar 2, 2014 #10
    MysticHZ

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    Not a load ... But carried the personal effects of a driver who passed away, back to his family. Didn't know the guy, but all of his stuff was sitting there in boxes talking to me the whole trip. A little emotional when I handed it off to his brother.

    My step father drove for 45 years and he picked up a load at Beale AFB. Backed into a dock with his doors closed, was escorted to a room and told to wait. A armed officer came and got him, got in the truck with him and told only stop for traffic signals and if I say go, go! No matter what.

    Took the load to Travis and reversed the process, backed into dock and taken to a room. After a bit they came and got him and told him he was free to take his truck.
     
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