The worst load ever...

i did once. an august delivery of bagged salt to the dog food factory in pennsauken. i was fine up on the dock until the farm truck with all the pig/sheep guts got there. the combination of the smell and vision of the blood, guts and slime being dumped into a hopper got me out of there real quick. i didn't even care that the receiver and farm guy were laughing their ##### off!

 

Hauling a tanker full of blood is pretty nauseating. It's even worse in the summer when it starts to go bad quick. Open the manhole covers on top to be greeted by green and black coagualated blood and maggots everywhere. Then you need to wash it out afterwards...that's right, stick your head inside the tank to spray it out. Getting blood and crap all over your face. The smell is so bad you need to hold your breath when you stick your head inside.

Then there's a 39ft dump trailer that's full of undigested grass from cow stomachs. Only it's not completely separated from other organs. So you get a mix of grass, stomach acid, brains, spinal cords, lungs, hearts etc... You have to wash that out too. Junk sprays all over you in the process and the smell won't leave your clothes until you wash them.

Try doing that every day and then tell me about your one bad load you had...lol.

 

Chlorine tons or 150's. They're both heavy/awkward and if one starts leaking you only have seconds to get the hell away from it. It's one of a couple products we haul that require you to keep your emergency respirator on you.

 

i dont know if there is a winner in this thread, but you four get my vote

 

Last week mob ridge SD. 100 head 51 406s 49 475s. Load honestly was a normal what made it bad was leaving my town at 14 degrees and driving up to -16 degree weather with NO HEAT, I didn't have coveralls or a warm coat! Made it to York NE truck crapped a drivers side hub bearing. Unloaded the cattle onto another truck at 7:30 at night on Friday when it was a whopping 4 above out (in a T-shirt and shorts gotta love a heat wave). Took an hour to load at the sale barn 30 minutes to unload in York. Still can't feel the tips of 2 of my fingers on my left hand, other driver had frostbite and I was shaking like a dog pooping razor blades for an hour and a half on my way home from York. I have never been that cold in my life that honestly was the trip from hell. Cab seals in the truck were bad and we could see our breath the hole trip. I told many people of they complained to me about being cold they were going to be crapping their teeth for the next week.

Needless to say I have a new pair of coveralls and a new coat. Jeans, a light jacket, and thin socks don't cut it. Probably would've if we had heat but that long in a freezing truck were honestly lucky a little frost bite was the worst we got.

 

My worst was a 12 pallet load of spices out of McCormick in Belcamp, MD to Ingles in Black Mountain, NC. Broker said light load, easy on, easy off. $100 lumper. Load took 4 hours to load, 9 hours to unload. 12 pallets were broken down to 40 pallets lumper was $800. I haul no more spices. And I hate food warehouses.

 

After reading a few of these,i stand corrected !!!

 

Washington DC of course

 

That would redefine a "truckers strike"...

 

379 exhd, it's called a pre trip. If a major component is not working the truck is rejected the load doesn't move. When you let the company get away with giving you that sort of crap equipment you just encourage them to keep on doing it. As you know now you need to dress and carry appropriate clothing for ANY conditions you may encounter before you return home. Pre trip includes EVERY control in cab,heater , defrost,wipers, mirror adjustment, seat adjustment/security. It is possible for stuff to quit en route unexpectedly. Regardless of what the load is when you cannot continue safely YOU MUST STOP. If you had had an accident because you were too cold to focus or because you couldn't see adequately you would have been at fault.