what was the WORST or CRAZIEST thing you have ever hauled?

I think the dumbest thing I ever loaded was having a load of cotton seeds blowed into my reefer trailer. I told the company 2 times it is going to be a mess cleaning that trailer. I was told to do it. I used cardboard and duct tape as best as I could to seal up the vents. Still by the time I got that load to Arkansas I had a royal mess. I don't remember the actual amount, however it cost the company almost $500 at the blue beacon across from the Petro in Little Rock to clean it. Then went over to Odum's Tennessee Pride and got loaded. Went to Nashville did a drop and hook then got a load of Yogurt and took it to Alabama. I gave that load up on a repower and took the empty in to Atlanta. I never again drove a CMV.

 

My worst stateside was a load of bundled recycled plastic bottles. I ended up with it because I had a baby bunk and sleepers were overweight. I picked it up at of Georgia and took it to a place in South Carolina. The load was refused because:
1. It was dirty and smelled like a dumpster.
2. It was infested with Black Widows. I counted 17 just from the back of the doors.

I had to take it back to the shipper, the Ft. Hood recycling center in Texas.

I've got a lot from Iraq with the military and State Department.

 

Speaking of dumb...

go into a blue beacon, have 20 people wash the truck and trailer, #### and span. Pay 50 or whatever. Pull outside 31 degrees. In a few minutes you got your coffee etc and whoops. You cannot get into the truck because all the little water became ice keeping everything shut.

So, hot coffee is the key that got through the door gaskets enough to get it open. Some key.

 

I think my most pain in the ### was a load of cranberry juice concentrate from Washington to Wisconsin. If you've never hauled food grade, each liquid behaves very differently. Cranberry juice is a live, and is actively trying to kill you.

 

I do you better sir,

Try Cider. In glass gallon jugs. 6 to a box, 5 to a layer on the pallet big wood to 3 to a layer into small wood. Pick em up, set them GENTLY dont even let them jingle. If you set it down too hard? CRACK! you just lost a gallon or 6 of Cider. Might as well drink up before calling OSD.

WhiteHouse would be the shipper out of Winchester VA to I think a carolina or georgia grocery outfit.

Hired two lumpers for that one load once. 120 bucks for both. Big boys. Wrists bigger than me around. Throwing cases to each other in the air.

God has been more than gracious with the gifts he chooses to give to different people and taketh away from others that don't need it or don't know how best to use it.

In this one case, a lumper service like that done well is way cheaper than a stack of empty jugs to call into OSD.

 

I've hauled out of that place I think back when I did dry van. Surprisingly I didn't have a single issue, thankfully

 

I picked up about 8 large vats of a mixed juice from South America in a port. Took it to I think it was Oceanspray (on I 30 between Dallas and Texarkana) in Texas. Got there out of hours great folks let me get my 10 parked nearby. Even helped me get a pizza. I hated that trip, I could feel that liquid sloshing around in the trailer.

 

That sensation certainly take some getting used to. I expected going into it to feel the sloshing, I did not however, expect to feel like I was being rear-ended by a freight train every time I shifted.

 

That's tanker work for you.

He he he.

As far as plants in racks going to stores in the garden centers. We usually loaded about this time of year out of Delaware off US1. Raced into say Iowa and unloaded at like 29 different stores in 5 days flat. Turned it in north and east of souix city and repeated where possible. Good good money makers. But it's really intense for all those stops.