Cadaver and Morgue hauling.

Talk about hauling dispatcher brains lol

 

My BIL passed on December 26 in northern Minnesota.
My wife was in charge of the arrangements.
Cremation was too expensive up there so she paid $3 a mile, 1 way charge = $720 to transport his body to the Twin Cities where it was done.
He was refrigerated during his stay at the morgue for a few days.
They used a hearse.
Dry ice was used for the 4hour ride.
He currently resides at the end of our sofa till spring when we will bring him to the Mississippi headwaters and send him down the river to the gulf of Mexico.
I don't know if the work is there for tractor trailer cadaver work but probably more peaceful than an Uber driver.

 

I have been involved in aspects of the funeral industry since the 1970's when I worked for a company that quarried and fabricated memorials(tombstones) When I got into trucking, I hauled many loads of caskets for Hill-Rom, the largest manufacturer in the country. And I am a member of a car club that collects hearses, so I know a lot of funeral directors. My son is in the Army reserve and blows Taps at funerals everyday.

The logistics are simple. Most people die where they live. 50% of them are cremated, some areas higher than that. Full service funerals with a viewing and a need to transport a body to a distant hometown or alternate burial site are a smaller and smaller percentage of services these days. .Memorial services are no longer held within a few days of the death, scheduled at a later date for the convenience of family members or other attendees who can't drop everything and attend a distant funeral service. If someone does want to, it is shipped HR(human remains) on the airlines, in the cargo hold( not up front with everyone else) doesn't cost too much more than a living paying passenger. They are well equipped to do that.
There just is no need to move large numbers of bodies intact from one place to another place. Approx. 2.8 million people normally die in the US every year. My friends in the funeral business have had almost no change in the number of cases in 2020 vs prior years.

 

Probably true. Now even microscopic particles of plastic are being found in newborn babies and in autopsies done of fetuses. Plastic is found in even the most remote parts of the world. That plastic comes from disposable plastic waste. Plastic never goes away; just because we throw it away or burn it, it's still with us, in most everything we eat or drink.
Having said this, what you say is probably true about putting preservatives in bodies. That information from you triggered my mind about the plastics.

 

Deleted. Wrong time for humor.

 

You notice what Mack that is transporting a long standing ATHS member. RIP.

 

My wife has already done the the deal to have herself donated to the Sam Houston University body farm. She says she will finally go to college. Lol!

 

Sounds like some "stiff" competition in this field...I'm going to pass