Strange deliveries or pickups...

Coins , like nuts and bolts, can be heavy loads. I've hauled so many different things, tough to remember, but one pickup stands out. I picked up a load of lead bars in Hurculenium, Mo. CREEPY place, no trees, couldn't leave the dock. 48 ft. van, the forklift guy brings out 7 bundles, each maybe 2x3x3 ft high, puts 4 in the front, big space, and the last 3 on the back. I said, "that's it"? He said, well, you have over 44,000 there,,,hmm, who thought lead would be so heavy? Hauled 3 BIG rolls of TP once, 50,000lbs of junk engine blocks, 110,000lbs of iron pellets I was barely able to unload before leaving( I thought it felt heavy going up to the scale) then there was the 6 loads of dead chickens in a tri-axle once,,,to name just a few.

 

One day while helping P&D in San Jose, one of my residential deliveries was a kayak. Like an OCEAN-GOING KAYAK. Took me a good 15 minutes trying to get it off the liftgate without damaging it, and had it sit diagonally on the dolly to roll it into the dude's garage.

Turns out the man's son is a YouTuber, who posts videos of him ocean fishing. A kayak company sent him that brand new kayak for FREE, provided he featured it in his content. Channel is called Fisherman's Chronicles, and his videos are pretty entertaining. That was a neat discovery.

Also in San Jose on a different day, I did another residential delivery. This time a bunch of heavy 2x4 wood planks. The customer worked for Apple, and has a whole custom woodshop set in his garage. He makes furniture and other things from the wood deliveries for family and friends. We got along well enough that he gave me his number. Haven't talked to him in a year until last week, but now after he finishes a couple projects for family, he's gonna build a twin-size bed frame for my daughter! For free!! I'll have to wait a year or so, but saves me money

 

Whole pigs too a hotel on the lake for a annual pig roast.

 

Every time we delivered a coffin, the DR would read "Empty Casket."

Well, I dang well should hope so!!

 

Used to get them coffins on ice out of small towns in the South West early 70s.
Drop them off a the local undertakers.
Would also get a few cases of the Pink juice in glass bottles that would break open.

 

Got pranked hard at a shipper checking in the other day. The load required a copy of my drivers license, a copy of the registration for the truck, and a copy for the registration of the trailer and have my picture taken and fingerprint left on one of the bills. When I went to the checkout window, I realized I hadn’t gotten the registration for the trailer. I had it for the truck. I jokingly told the guy in the shipping window “ I’ve never seen security like this, what am I hauling nuclear secrets or something”. When I came back, I gave him my trailer registration got my picture taken and the a lady came out from the back with latex gloves on. She had a little kit with her. And a very serious tone she said, “I’ll need to prick your finger to get a small blood sample as we keep a DNA sample on file until the load is delivered. We don’t run your DNA or process it unless something happens to the load.” I was literally speechless. Then I finally mumbled the words “ma’am, no offense, but I don’t think this is legal and I’m gonna have to check with my company because I am not comfortable with this“. It was about then all the office people started busting up. I guess it’s a prank they play from time to time when someone makes a smart Alec answer about their check in.
I thought they were serious. Lol

oh, the load? Was expensive wine.

 

Not nearly as crazy as some of these stories but the underground warehouses in Louisville KY are pretty cool to deliver to. Hard to describe unless you've been there. Lots of unusual stuff under Louisville in those giant caves. Big rooms full of military equipment, some full of stored cars and RVs, some just full of random cross-dock goods and LOTS of people working down there.

I couldn't work all day underground like that, it just weirds me out. I guess I couldn't be a miner.

 

Caves in missouri. Mainly used for frozen food storage.

 

Been to those many times. Just try not to think about earthquakes while you’re down there and you’ll do fine. LOL