What's your most bizarre Load?

Cant think of any bizarre loads but next time the DOT wants to give me a level one Im gonna tell them Im hauling live rattlesnakes.

I have however delivered footballs to Lucas Oil Stadium, where the Colts play. Not bizarre, but interesting I guess.

 

I think you kind of ruined it by starting out with an end-dump full of live rattlesnakes. Gonna be hard to top.

 

I hauled a municipal band on a drop deck once.






I hauled the band for a parade, drove the whole route nice and slow, I got almost back to the band shell and because of all of the traffic, I had to make a VERY tight corner, inches on each side, everyone sat still as I slowly worked the truck around the corner, just as I cleared it and started to move, the whole band played a "TA DA", I about jumped out of the cab.

 

How bout frozen bodies?

We once hauled a load kind of like a road-runner load and in the middle they had plates for the US Mint. We didn't know until they unloaded us. Makes you wonder how many people were following us!

Another really strange load we had was one box about two square feet. Picked up out in Cali. Was supposed to be peppers. We hauled it from Cali to eventually Ma I believe. Nothing else in the truck. One little box!

Also had a floral load long time ago and it was mostly boxes of fern. Had about 50 stops. Last stop was out in BFE Montana at a little barn down a long dirt road. Started chuckin wax boxes of fern down the trailer and my co-driver was stacking them on the dolly. Picked up one box and it was easily 30-40lbs more than the other boxes! Same box, marked the same, so supposedly same product right? It was so heavy I had to walk it down the end of the trailer. There were five or six more just like it out of 70 something boxes. We had some good guesses as to what it might have been. Apparently Montana has to import snow from Columbia in the summertime!

 

I've hauled nothing too bizarre as a CDL driver. But had a couple of memorable deliveries as a delivery driver before getting my CDL...

In highschool I had a job delivering flower arrangements for a florist. Marine World was just opening in Vallejo Ca and I was delivering a Congratulations arrangement out there. --several actually. I was directed to take them to a dumpy little construction trailer. When I walked in one of the guys sitting around the desk was Ed McMahon from The Tonight Show. Turns out he was MC'ing for the opening. They kept talking while I got my signature and I never said a word...

Couple years later right before I got my CDL I worked for Loomis Armored. One of the stops was a casino and on Fridays we would pick up a cashiers check at the bank for the weekend entertainers. Usually the checks were in regular envelops and then sealed in our standard tamper proof plastic bags.

For whatever reason one week there were 2 checks. One was in a regular envelop simply marked "band" and the other check wasn't in a regular envelop but was in our sealed plastic bags. It was made out to Pat Benatar for $15,000.

Most unusual I can think of in a truck was 500,000 tree seedlings. Not too bizarre but I remember it for some reason. I've hauled lots of mixed no-touch loads that could have been -anything.

 

Where do I begin Load of Oranges out of California to Florida to a Dole Packing house. Get there called in go we have a load back to California from where your at. You Guessed it Oranges going to a Safeway DC. All they did was pull of the top lid and Put one of theirs on it. Or the load in an reefer set for -20 on Constant run that was packed in Dry ICe. Load wieghed in at 45K when Picked up at the other end only 6 K they had 40K lbs of Dry ice on whatever the Crap was to prevent it from going Nutso on us.

Steel in a reefer with it running at 80 to prevent it from Rusting. The best one however I will never forget it til I die either was that load of freaking Steer Penises I picked up from a Slaughterhouse and took to some freaking Pet treat company they make Dog Chews out of them. I had 45K lbs of BULL DICKS on my trailer the piece count was over 20K that is alot of DICKS you know that.

 

incinerated bodies, to a place that re-claimed the Precious metals

 

The two times I've hauled museum hands on science exhibits for children. Barely took up half the trailer and none weighed more than 3,000 lbs. Loaded them in downtown El Paso on the street. Took one to a science museum in Oak Ridge, TN and the other one to a shopping mall in Cedar Rapids, IA. The company's owner is good friends with the director of the exhibit company so we get first crack at hauling them before he puts the load out to the brokers.

 

The weirdest loads I hauled it wasn't what was in the trailer just what I did with them. About 7 years ago I was pulling a reefer and several times I got sent to a coffee plant in New Jersey to pick up. I did several loads where I picked it up then drove to several different points then never delivered anything then turned around and took the load back to New Jersey. I did this to Topeka,Ks, Toledo,Oh, Columbus,Ga, and Boise,Id. I know of several others that did them all over the country. They checked your odometer when you picked up and dropped it off to make sure you drove the miles and not just picked it up and sat at the truckstop down the street for several days.