What have you got for free from a shp/recv

The only free freight (due to damage) that I've gotten so far has been a case of decaffeinated Lipton Iced Tea. Been reading through this thread and drooling with envy...

 

Load locks and straps

 

I have seen so much stuff thrown away that a food bank would be more then willing to come and get it.Most recievers will give you the number to one.I have donated ribs,chicken,ham,candy,orange juice and apples

 

24 cases of tyson chicken breast.
It ended up going to a jail because the food bank people never showed to pick it up.

 

It's always fun to give meat away. My last one I believe was 96 whole chickens (8cs.) just because blood leaked out of one onto them. I took it to a food bank. The lady told me they hardly ever get meat and they had 96 regulars. Coincidence?

 

Not free, but i was offered a brand new Monte Carlo SS @ a GM plant fresh off the assembly line one Friday night late. Guy said if I gave him $500 he'd load it on the front of my trailer and stuff empty bins behind it so the guards at the shack couldn't see it. Good deal. Now, how do I title it? Anyway, I left it on the dock.

 

4 cs. of 3 ct. 17lb bone-in hams
2 cs. of 4 ct. 10lb spiral sliced hams
2 cs. Pepperoni slices (15lb bags)
1 cs. of 2 genoa salamis (10lb or so)
Untold number of cases of bacon (well over 100 lbs by now)
Cases of bacon pieces (at least four 5lb bags)
Prosciutto (2 cs)
Several cases of sausage patties (approx 10-20lb)
400 lbs of bananas (only kept one case of 40lbs)
78 1.5qt tubs of ice cream (29 1/4 gallons of ice cream)
Several cases of fruit juice
4 gallons of barbecue sauce in 1 gallon containers

That's just from damages.

Then I've gotten free eggs (as many as I wanted, as long as I knew they were going to be used), so I got 12 dozen.

Most of the stuff, I give away to my family. I have an uncle with a deep freezer, and we divide it up amongst my parents, uncles/aunts, cousins, etc. I very rarely keep any myself. And then one guy had a claim at a customer and had 10 cs. of bacon (each case was 10 individual packets of 1.5lb of bacon). Although he didn't give them away for free, he sold them for $10/case. I bought two. Although, really, I should've cleaned him out. $100 for 150lb of bacon is a deal of the century. I had a cold load on the way home, I could've easily have transported it.

The luckiest time was the ice cream. It was 10F or so out, so I barely had to run the reefer while I sat while booking another load. And the next load I booked turned out to be ice cream as well going about an hour away from my parents. So, I drove it up to them once I got empty.

My extended family loves me. ha

 

Maybe so....but some of your fellow drivers ain't-a-too crazy about you right now!!

 

Haha. If only they knew how much free stuff I got on that one run. Every week I ran a meat load, there was always damage. And one particular receiver was notorious for damaging stuff (the shipper always slid pallets against eachother, and their pickers didn't stack properly, so they were always ripping the sides of boxes).