The most ridiculously expensive equipment you've hauled.

You could have used 5 more straps and 17 bungees to secure that better...

I just don't think about it. Like 35k for a concrete box. Don't want to know about the bridge beams.

 

I think pleading the 5th Amendment would be a good post.

 

I once hauled a jet turbine for the co-gen plant at the University of Florida (Go GATORS!). When I arrived, the crane crew was on lunch break, so I half jokingly (I was a crane operator many moons ago....) offered to run the 100 ton Liebherr that they had waiting.
The project manager kinda chuckled and said "Ah, no thanks. I don't think you really want to be responsible if you happened to damage that $1.3 million dollar turbine."
I promptly agreed with him....

 

The moulds those boxes are made in is maybe twice that

 

A load of Tequila from El Paso to Phoenix.It was bound for Vegas but I only took it halfway and another guy repowered it. Something like half a mil

 

Had a driver with a load of whiskey he picked up in New York City, rearend me in Nashville, TN.
Whiskey was pouring out the drains in the nose of the trailer. Both trucks were drivable, but he did have a smashed hood. He said the whiskey load was a drop & hook in Arkansas and he wasn't going to report it; just do a drop & hook and keep rolling.
All it did to my trailer was bend the unload pipe on the dry bulk tanker trailer.

 

Hauled a gear for a ski lift from California to New York state to a ski resort on top of a mountain; little two lane road. Don't know the cost but had to be very expensive. High grade steel and was so big had to set it on the step deck at an angle so not to be too high. Even then it hung over on both sides; one side up in the air and the other below the deck.

 

I work for a plastic sheet/trash bag manufacturer. I picked up a dry van full of brand new production equipment (extruders, folders etc.) from a custom machine manufacturer. He said the value of each machine was between $400,000 and $600,000, and would require months to reproduce. So my load was not only worth millions, but could have shut down some upgrade plans had I not safely made it to the plant. Good thing I didn't feel like screwing them over that week

 

Not sure,.. they said this was an expensive tug tractor.
Reagan National sold it to a smaller airport in Albany Ny.



I've moved million dollar equipment,.. I dont even think about that end of it much.

When I did reefer work, I picked up 4 small pallets (Think 2 high) that had some boxes of raw Stevia. They were going to Brown Cow Greek Yogurt. They said those 4 pallets is all the sweetener they would use for the next 4 years. 1 small tea spoon would sweeten like 500,000 units or some ridiculous amount of product like that. Valued at $250k a pallet.

Hurst