Your most pain in the ### freight

Penguins. In a reefer. Vets, zookeepers in chase, fish...The smell! Tiny gods! Took us five pounds of coffee to get the worst of it.

 

I picked up coffee beans in Jersey one time. Was at the shipper for 8 hours while they hand-loaded each bag directly onto the floor of my trailer. 45k load, only $1/mile, 3 different stops that had to hand-unload, and a huge mess to clean up afterwards... Never again!

 

I'd take that load, but I'm biased...

 

There's a place in St. Louis that makes plastic pallets out of old diapers. That's pretty terrible. And since you're posting this on the LTL thread, I have a feeling you know all about playground set deliveries to residentials.

 

Ha! Oh dude I bet. We'd get those playground tree house things and they're like 10 feet long, heavier than ever living $&@% but only on one end. And always loaded heavy end toward the nose, so you'd about leave your clackers in the trailer trying to drag it onto the liftgate that it wouldn't fit on. And yes, I've never realized how many driveways go "up" like you stated. And it doesn't take but a pebble under the pallet jack wheel to stop all of what little momentum I'd have going. And then some people would be like "now do you set it up too?". They'll send someone by later.

 

All her 90 lb might. Haha! Yea the good ole Jell-O legs. I guess that's how she keeps the weight off. Blasting through energy drinks so often she decided to spring for the pallet. It is interessting what people order sometimes. One guy bought a Weber grill. Like the charcoal one every one in America has. He was all concerned on the phone "how's it look? Is it damaged? How's the box? I'm worried about it gettin damaged during shipping." Anyway long story short he warned me about not being able to get into his subdivision and getting turned around. "I'll just meet you at Wal Mart they got plenty of room for you." Ya know you could have just drove your happy ### down here quite literally anytime and bought one off the shelf.