Weirdest place to deliver?

I'm not sure where it is exactlý, but I remember going to this place in 2006 that I guess makes drywall. They said just back it in that hole right there but don't open your doors till u bump the dock. The trailer is 104" wide the hole in the bldg was 105" wide. If u open ur doors before u backed you'd tear them up. U had to back in up a ramp and then they would clear.

 

And how do you open the doors when you bump the dock ? If the trailer is 104" you must be getting a lot of oversize permits . There is a 102" width limit . http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regu...p?chunkKey=090163348008ee2c&keyword=102 width

 

Hauling cars. Personally owned vehicles (POV's)...it's never the same when the shipper & reciever is just Average Joe Automobile and your pickup & delivery location is "anywhere the truck will fit" (provided you can get the vehicle off before the cops are called).

9 times out of 10 they'd expect door to door service. And when you explained that a semi truck can't typically fit in a sub/urban residential neighborhood, they'd haughtily inform you that "trucks go by my house all the time"....meaning, of course, the UPS man. You'd mention overhanging tree branches as an obstacle and he'd say, "There ARE no trees on my street".....when, of course, the entire road is shaded with old-growth oaks. About half the customers were extremely rigid & unwilling to catch a ride 5 miles to the nearest WalMart, so after trying all the standard, polite warnings about the size of my truck, I'd "try to get as close as I can".

This often landed me in awkward situations such as needing to back up for 4 blocks in the middle of Bel Air in order to get back to the interstate. Or offloading a Rolls Royce in the center turn lane of Santa Monica Blvd. Or once, against my better judgement, following an 87 year old lady's directions some 10 miles down a dead-end curvy, hilly road into her gigantic "preplanned" retirement community.....SURE that I was going to be backing out the entire way, only to have the SHOCK of my life...she was 100% correct- the cul-de-sac she lived on WAS designed as a truck turn-around.

Picked up a car in Beverly Hills- guy first got his Armani slacks in a twist when I told him I simply COULD NOT fit my truck into the driveway of the Beverly Hills Hotel where he was staying....even after he SAW my truck he still had the attitude that I was somehow decieving him. He actually said, "I still don't understand why your truck is too big. That driveway is the hotel's COMMERCIAL DRIVEWAY, it should fit." Same thing happened on the other end in Chicago when I again had to have a basic physics lesson with him- a 13'8 tall vehicle cannot fit beneath a 12'7 viaduct; no matter how much Crisco you use. We offered to deliver at a location just 5 miles from his condo on the other side of the viaducts. The guy's screaming pitch went higher than MY voice can go (I'm female) as he spit out something unintelligible, and he hung up the phone.

My boss- out of sheer spite for the number of times he'd been screamed at by this guy in 5 days- had me leave Chicago proper and drive clear to the Horseshoe Casino by the lake- a good 20 miles from this guy's condo....and take the car off there. I was to ignore the man's phone calls until I had the car unloaded. I was to inform the customer that he had 2 options- collect his car at the offered delivery point OR the car would be towed to the yard in Michigan and impounded for nonpayment with a daily storage fee tacked on to the overall bill. Oddly, he was very subdued when he showed up to claim his vehicle. Gave me no problems whatsoever.

That was a fun job. Unfortunately my boss was a major d-bag in more ways than one, and it didn't work out.

 

How about weirdest cargo? There are reasons I won't eat Campbells soups, but moreso is bologna and hot dogs. I carried a load of 4x4 waxed boxes on pallets full of beef bones with bits of meat on them, flies and bugs, with open tops, to a hot dog plant.
Since then, if it doesn't look like meat; I don't eat it.

 

LOL I never got to haul anything that disgusting. Maybe "raw" sausage casings....the real thing....that came over on a container from China and ended up somewhere in Kentucky at some small fancy "specialty" sausage place. So next time you eat gourmet sausage in a "natural" casing....just remember those pig intestines holding it in probably came from China...and you know how their quality control is so strict!

There was also a load of chicken livers labeled "not for human consumption" on the bills. They'd come out of a load of chickens who had died en route to the plant in the 100+ degree heat. But fortunately I brought them to a dog food plant, where they belonged....

FUNNIEST load I hauled? A trailer full of empty Mrs. Butterworth's syrup bottles. Okay, so they were in boxes. But the whole time I just tried to picture all 500,000+ of them coming to life at once (like the commercial?) and chatting with me over flapjacks.

I *am* very easily amused, yes.

 

In 92 or 93 the worst load I ever had to pick up was in Chicago and a full load of "green sheep hides". It was June or July so you know what the heat did in an unvented trailer,had to go into Canada Customs and park to get the load cleared. All the she-it was running out of the closed back doors and MAN it was NASTY. Deliverd in Blyth Ontario at The Olde Mill which tanned and cured the hides and any other things you do to leather and such. Was real glad it was a company trailer as the smell was sickening. Had it washed out 3 times. Got rid of that sucker as soon as I could.

 

WEIRDEST CARGO? OK.
Back in the early 90's,my heyday of otr,I had to drive up into or on one of those mountains that literally crop up out of the ground in california.Yes it was a beautiful drive and hwas extremely beautiful view wise.I had plenty of time to marvel at the views offered as my trailer was being loaded by hand w/some kind of vine or similiar for delivery back into Boaz,Alabama.
This particular trip also was the ONLY time in my driving career that my trailer was actually opened,seal broken and all,by any LEO.It happened at the ####### check on I20 eastoutside of van horn,texas.
back to the cargo-
i delivered my load and upon arrival i was informed the vines would be turned into Christmas wreaths.The month was late october/very early november.
Pretty cool backhaul IMHO.
EDITED to add-well. since my words were not allowed, I'll leave it up to you drivers to figure out where my load was examined.It has something to do w/illegals and the type backs they have and the name used to reference the border patrol checks. 3 guesses and the first 2 do not count-

 

Was that a Moly-B mine? I delvrd to one of these in the general are you described.
The higher I went the deeper the snow.

 

Lol thats funny I would be thinking about that Butterworths commercial to, I could just picture that a whole trailer full of em talking lmao!


Weirdest, well not that weird but had to deliver to this small, "and I stress the small part" town in Ohio cant remember the name. But I picked up a load of Flour in Winona MN and delivered it to this bread making place that must have been built in 1800. Had to drive down these roads that looked like they were made for horse an buggy, then take a tight left turn and an immeadiate tight left turn into a tiny alley just wide enough for the truck. Then once into the alley immediately turn behind the building, drive onto the grass and over the curb onto the road to be able to back into the dock. An I swear the guy that built the place in 1800 was the one unloading my truck, he was older than them hills.

Another weird one was a tcalled load I picked up in OK city that another driver dropped. It was going to a kingsford charcoal plant by Joplin Missery area. Bills said wood chips and trailer was sealed, didnt realize till I opened the doors that they had just filled the entire trailer with wood chips and dust, had to back into this ramp type thing and disconnect. Then they raise the trailer straight in the air and vibrate all the chips and dust out. I was starring at the trailer way up in the air kinda dumbfounded.

 

Typo sry. My fat thumbs n blackberry don't mix. 102" u have to back into the hole and its an uphill ramp. When ur all the way back u clear enough to open ur doors