What's your most bizarre Load?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by Eaton18, Dec 9, 2011.

  1. dirtjersey

    dirtjersey Light Load Member

    Christmas ornaments; trash to be delivered at a landfill,
     
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  3. kidsdad

    kidsdad Medium Load Member

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    Pulled in to a company called rent a can in Winston Salem N.C. Got in there yard and thought what the hell? thousands of, well, rent a cans. I have never seen so many crappers in one place in my life. I was told to back down next to a row and they proceded to load 26 defective crappers in my trailer. They did empty and clean them first, so they said. I got pulled in the back of a N.C. chicken coop and the cop ask's me for my bills, they were listed as Portable's, defective, return to manufactor. He asked me what they were, I told him, he wanted to see, i showed em. I asked if he wanted to climb up and inspect the cargo, he said that wouldn't be neccesary and sent me on my way. I did ask what the defect was, they told me the walls were too thin and you could see through them when the sun hit them right.
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  4. cruisecontrol

    cruisecontrol Medium Load Member

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    just over 20 million dollars worth of lottery tickets...made me a bit nervous.lol
     
  5. LandShark

    LandShark Road Train Member

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    mine was today..
    Picked up out side Ft Worth and took it to the ports in Bayonne NJ..where they were putting it on a ship to Isreal...oh it was a haz mat load.. weapons grade...and it was consigned to the Isreali govt...
    one i'll remember for awhile
     
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  6. Elvenhome21

    Elvenhome21 Heavy Load Member

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    the scrap parer things is very common practice. Im on georgia pacific dedicated and i do 4-6 out bound WI loads a week. GP sends me to IL, IA, OH, pittsburg, and KY. they need to get us back asap for another outbound load from WI so its not uncommon to have 6-800 mile scrap paper loads back to wi. just like bottled water and paper rolls in maine. it would be EXTREMELY cheaper for maine shippers to load there stuff on containers that are going to chicago and west, but if they did no one would ever deliever to maine because there would be absolutely no backhauls out of there. kinda like miami or florida in general.
     
  7. coralsea

    coralsea Bobtail Member

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    I'm a liberal.
    And a veteran.
    And a gun-owner.

    And old/wise enough to know better than to stereotype people. :biggrin_25525:

    Peace, dude.
     
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  8. FEELTHEWHEEL

    FEELTHEWHEEL Medium Load Member

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    Doing air freight short line San Diego to LAX. A load of small turtles, the kind I had when I was a kid. They had to be left on the ground B/4 going on a plan, a big to-do over salmonella, year was 1995 Don't know what they did with them.
     
  9. mustang190

    mustang190 Road Train Member

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    Picked up a haxmat load of a chemical that had about every letter in the alphabet in it, Placard 1263 I believe, and around 6200 gallons. This stuff had a MSDS of toxic, cancer causing, flammable and about every thing else.
    Took it to Philip Morris in Richmond Va. where they drummed it off wearing space suits. It is a additive for cigaretts! keeps the tobacco burning!
    Now I know why I never started smoking!!
     
  10. Okieron

    Okieron Crusty Okie

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    I hauled empty boxes from El paso TX. to Chicago I mean just empty cardboard boxes. Light load not even flat still in box shape.
     
  11. lostNfound

    lostNfound Road Train Member

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    Well, there was the time I had a load of ping-pong balls...
     
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