Weirdest place to deliver?

Discussion in 'Shippers & Receivers - Good or Bad' started by mtdewr, Apr 20, 2009.

  1. ladywrongway03

    ladywrongway03 Heavy Load Member

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    watching frito lay raise my truck and trailer in the air in florida was something different
     
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  3. T-Bone

    T-Bone Bobtail Member

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    i like the caves think they are cool lol. but they worst one for me was either underneith the Marriot hotel in downtown SanFrancisco had to back off the street down into the basement around to a 90 degree dock aroun everything down there or delivering a load of poles to lake tahoe for a new gauntlet had to go straight up the side of the mountain on a path they just cut out to meet the crane to un load. it was steep enough they had to help pull me up the hill cause kept breaking traction and then trying not to slide onthe way back down
     
  4. Unclegrumpy

    Unclegrumpy Light Load Member

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    A box of videotapes to a gay movie theater, more creepy than weird and no I did not stay for the matinee.
     
  5. prime rib

    prime rib Light Load Member

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    The state prison in my neck o the woods.
    Had to go in there a few times.
    Driver has to drop the trailer on an open dock
    and bobtail to their waiting area.
    An inmate detail unloads the freight.
    Guards with AR-15 rifles all over the place.
    You're not allowed to leave the day room.
    When you depart they go over your rig with all kinds
    of high tech gear looking for possible stowaways.
    You park the truck at the gate, get out, and they
    have a radar/sonar device that can detect the
    faintest breathing or heartbeat from anywhere
    in, on, or under the truck.
    Pretty wild.
     
  6. oldcrow

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  7. mhbourne

    mhbourne Bobtail Member

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    I've been to the caves in Carthage and the wonderful interbake building in Elizabeth, NJ but here's a few others I thought of while reading this post:

    Went to pick up something in southeastern VA from a feed mill but they were overrun with other drivers with similar loads so they sent two of us up the road about 15 miles to another location. basically a barn, had to back in across grass. It was all snow-melt (salt) going to a Lowes or Home depot in NW Indiana, back a few years when there were all those ice storms in the area. I guess they had to call in the back up reserve!

    Had to take a delivery to the convention center in downtown atlanta. came around the block, realized there was no way I was going to get in there on a right turn so came at it again, got in there and it was all pillars. Lucky for me the dock supervisor guided me in. He definitely knew what he was doing.

    Delivered a load of trailer axles to a prison in Clarinda, IA. guess the prison labor makes for an inexpensive product...

    Snack size bags of doritos from Lynchburg, VA to Rancho Cucamonga, CA had to go through south texas and phoenix since the high altitude on 40 would have popped the bags.

    Rolls of foam from NJ to Laredo. 500# on the bol, made for a pleasant drive:)
     
  8. chopper103in

    chopper103in Road Train Member

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    i delivered to the lyric opra house in chicago about a month ago.
    they back you in off of washington blvd into the building then they make you get out of the truck so they can lower the elevator down 1 story to the dock. i was in a 26ft straight truck, they guy after me had a 53ft trailer that he had to drop and leave till the show was over
     
  9. striker

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    did it yesterday (11/2), will do it again tomorrow (11/4) and sometime next week, a trailer load of bird balls to a nat. gas drill site on top of a mtn. so they can unload them in a frac pit. Weirdest #### drive ever, takes an hr to go 11 miles. Chained all drives, a steer and a trailer tire, max speed 20 mph, snow/ice, 2 of the last 3 miles is 14% grade
    http://www.enquip.com/pocono-bird-ball.jpg
     
  10. bonder45

    bonder45 Road Train Member

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    Usually weekly I deliver a couple boxes of dogs / cats / birds / etc to the animal cremations in our city. ...
     
  11. mgt1085

    mgt1085 Medium Load Member

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    pier 35 in San Fransisco pull in then the guide will direct u to pull forward then back up to a certain spot then turn have to be careful of the pillars ship was pulling in at same time i was
     
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