The most ridiculously expensive equipment you've hauled.

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  1. uncleal13

    uncleal13 Road Train Member

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    $30 million, a van load of assorted Microsoft software for business. Server/workstation stuff. Some of that sold for over $2,500 just for a CD.
    They used some two-bit broker that wasn't open on weekends to clear Canada Customs. So I put it in bond.
     
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  3. TruckDuo

    TruckDuo Road Train Member

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    As a team we haul a lot of high value stuff. Mostly electronics.
     
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  4. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    Picked up a machine used in the production of fighter jets, $60 mil. Legal load, had to rag it.

    I always tell my drivers that there are only 2 safe places for loads:1Shipper 2Receiver.

    Shipper gave me his cell number and wanted me to call if anything went wrong. I called the receiver to check their hours, and the receiver told me to call an hour before, because he would have someone meet me to open the gate and allow me to drop the trailer.

    Some of the higher end places will have drivers lounge, hot food available, overnight parking...etc. You think, "Wow! I did not know....! All of this for drivers?" But again, the drivers that you see on the high end are not those nasty, smelly, disgusting creatures you see at a Loves.
     
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  5. Oor

    Oor Road Train Member

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    Cash registers for Walmart.

    Must have been worth a fortune because they paid for a whole semi to haul 1200 pounds 800 miles.
     
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  6. Superhauler

    Superhauler TEACHER OF MEN

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    hauled a lift hoist made specifically for some top secret item NASA was moving only weighed 8000lbs back in the 80's. the place was south west side of salt lake city. went to east of Mojave cal. place I loaded had to be escorted everywhere all the time with camera's on me the whole time kept messing with the camera would take two steps forward then back two. the guard called back and said stop it .he couldn't keep up with me, the remote camera couldn't move that fast. where I delivered was not allowed to exit the truck. the shipper claimed it was a few hundred thousand dollars. I could of built it for a few hundred at home with some scrap metal I had laying around!
     
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  7. dog-c

    dog-c Road Train Member

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    Bose speakers In a crappy container...ca to go 700k
    Patron tequila from Mexico border to la....1mil+
    Enfamil raw powder from ca to mi....500k
    Walgreen pharma load...value? They called me every 1/2 hr...had to get permission to stop for the bathoom.
     
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  8. austinmike

    austinmike Road Train Member

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    What's 40k lbs of cigarettes worth?
     
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  9. catalinaflyer

    catalinaflyer Road Train Member

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    I'm not a liberty to say but on the low end $2.6 mil. Goes up from there.
     
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  10. bandit74

    bandit74 Light Load Member

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    .....cheapest load, bread
     
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  11. tommymonza

    tommymonza Road Train Member

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    I hauled some Unattainable one time
    The weight was unmentionable.
    The size was unfathomable
    And the value was uncalculable
    While the Stress was Unthinkable
     
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