Weirdest load you ever hauled.

Ran a load of Christmas trees in november from Oregon to salt lake city UT,
and 41,000 lbs of McDonald's pickles from Arkansas to Rochester New York .
meh I guess those aren't really that weird after all

 

A casket, drums of frozen grape juice concentrate to wineries (in a dry van), 2 cans of spray paint with a long box,bullets,gun safes, 26 foot aluminum walkways in a 28 foot pup, food to san quentin state prison, kitchen appliances to the set of a tv show, driving into a truck elevator that takes you underground at the westfield mall in san francisco. LTL puts you in some strange places

 

Ahhh, feel like I'm back at the lunch counter again

 

But, this is the internet and it's all true.

 

I wanna know what company has the rubber #### hauling account

 

I haven't seen any nearly as fun as some of these, but (like the guy above), I too have hauled pickles on several occasions. Parking pickles in the pickle park! Wait, that sounds wrong.

Other stuff when I did foodservice: $115,000 worth of bacon. Truck full of flat pizza boxes. Two skids of granola, weighing about 1.5t combined and nothing else. Food distribution centers get some pretty crazy deliveries.

I hauled 53' aluminum trailer decks (and one 48') to Great Dane on a 53' Great Dane flatbed. That was kind of funny.

Giant carbon electrodes for an arc furnace... Cool stuff.

A bunch of I-beams that I later found out were going to be turned in to posts for guardrails.

Aluminum coils that were about to become beer cans.

Nothing too stellar, but I thought it was pretty neat!

 

I was part of a 5 truck convoy of parts that were put in to the new Smithsonian Museum. We were oversize loads the biggest (not me) was the passenger train car. Washington DC. escorted in by DC's finest and they had the 6 lane road closed for us to unload on a Sunday. Two cranes to unload the train car. They had to put these items in before they build the Museum because they are to big to put in after it is built. I was told it will be 2 more years before the Museum opens.

 

I've hauled a mock up shell of the old space capsule. A divers bell for a muesuem in Fl.
Years ago a big truck style snow blower from Mt. to the air base in Vegas.. Would'nt let me take it to the final dest. I did not have the clearance, so we know where it ended up at. But still a snow blower in Vegas? haha

 

Caskets to a funeral home in Ogden Ut that I heard screaming in the back, they were playing a joke with me. And picked up a load of fish once that was going to be used as bait they blew ice. Inside the trailer and then used a belt line to throw the fish on top of that, the guy warned me not to stop at truck stops to sleep because he had a load called in on before, sorry to everyone that night about your windshield, the next day they used a water hose and washed all the fish out, took 3 cans of coffee to cover that smell.

 

Hauled a couple cabooses... and badly deformed (derailed) coal hoppers...

Worst was one that I didn't haul, but, helped the boss load a derailed tanker car, that still had about 1,000-gallons of cattle piss in the bottom of the tank... the cattle piss was on it's way to be converted to DEF fluid... Stunk to high heaven, and loaded it next to an animal processing plant. Worst smell I've ever been around... carcasses and piss.