Weirdest place to deliver?

I delivered to a prison before and had to have a guard with his dog ride in the cab with me until the trailer was unloaded and off the property.

 

Back in '97 I think it was, I picked up a load of hams to go 25 miles up the road. Dry box, not a reefer.

Got to the place to deliver, the guy comes out to check the temp of the unit. Should have seen the look on his face...and the speed at which they unloaded those things!

Had a second p/u of two in LaVergne, TN one evening...One pallet, one small box (maybe 8 inches all sides) of screws, firmly shrink-wrapped to the pallet. Went to Whirlpool in OK.

And I used to haul crushed aluminum cans to Alcoa...they'd put the entire trailer up on the lift and dump the load out. Trailer never smelled too good after those loads, either.

 

Okay it wasn't me but a friend of mine said he delivered to the russian embassy in d.c and when he got in the guards had him park his truck while they took his pallet jack and took the freight some where and had him sit and wait beside his truck for over an hour to get his pallet jack back !

 

I went to a farm one time during the summer and delivered produce inside a barn and I forgot to roll the windows up and when I got back into the truck it was filled with flies that stayed in the truck until my last stop lol !!!

 

Another one of friends called me today and told me he delivered to a tanning salon and everybody who worked in there was ORANGE lmao !!! He told me that he couldn't laugh but he just smiled the whole time there !!!

 

I delivered to a few prisons. They eat good. Pork loin, chicken breasts, beef rounds, chuck and hamburger.

I remember another one back in my La-Z-boy hauling days I had one drop at a little furniture store in a remote town. I get there and the lady tells me I had to deliver at her house. So I head there on the little country road and weaseled into their driveway which looped behind the house. I ended up unloading into the guys two car garage. That was his warehouse.

 

Years ago when i hauled furniture i delivered a big desk to the Pentagon.
I had to call this number,was met by the Secret Service and escorted into a huge building.
The truck and trailer was X-rayed! Then the bomb sniffing dogs was all over it.
They then escorted me through DC to the Pentagon.
All i had to do was open the trailer and shove the desk to the back.
They had guys waiting to carry it in after they looked it over REALLY good.
I guess they were looking to see if it had been bugged or something.

 

Delivered to some place in BFE Utah/Nevada in 1997... (unsure cause it was so close to state line)

Picked up a load from Chicago where you backed into a indoor dock and dropped trailer.
They did the unhooking, and closed the door while loading.
Was told to stay in truck.

Was "routed", and had to call in every 3 hours.
Was given specific truck stops to use for breaks.

They put a red 8x10 sticker on my front bumper, and the trailer had those heavy bolt security seals like containers use, as well as seal tape on doors.

Bills had "numbers" and weght, but no description of load...... and a 1-800 phone for any LEO to call if I got stopped.

Drove from Chitcago to UT/NV location and was "bypassed" on every single scalehouse.

Off interstate.
North about 30 miles on gravel road.
Then a GATE... and tall fence.

Behind gate was a small square area about 100' x 100' with a guard shack.
And another gate, beyond which I saw nothing but the dirt road going over a little hill.

MILITARY ARMED guards came to gate, opened, and asked for paperwork.
I gave.
Was told to pull in the "bullpen" and drop trailer, then bobtail over to guard shack and come inside.

I did.
Guards were nice and we talked about where I was from and stuff.

"Yard Dog" type tractor appeared and got my trailer and went into fenced area.
When he got to top of hill, he turned right and drove across..... Then just went "down".
I mean, like he went down some sort of "ramp" on other side of hill ... or INTO the hill.

45 min later my MTY was brought back and I was given bills.
Hooked up and left.

I asked what it was I was hauling.
Was told they did not know.

I asked if there was something underground out there where thee trailer "disappeared".
Was told if there was they couldn't say yes or no. (wink wink)

I left.
On the way out, I saw a little concrete "box" (kinda like a porto-pottie) with a door in the side just across the fence that i missed on the way in.
Just out there in the middle of nowhere.

Strangest load I ever hauled.
Never did it again.

 

Pulled a FedX freight load on one of my carriers trailers out of Newport News - the naval base a few years ago. Sealed trailer, handed a sealed envelope, and told not to open it... lots of SPs with M16s. Delivered it to Jacksonville NAS - told to park it in a hanger, and was escorted to a day room... lots of SPs with M16s. Awhile later, escorted back to the truck, handed a signed bill that just stated "General Freight" and a weight. When my codriver asked what we'd delivered, he was told, "Don't even think about asking."

No biggie... the military still plays its strange little shell games.

 

I was in the caves in Kansas City a couple of times in the 70's, I thought they were pretty cool, no pun intended.