Whats the worst load?
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Escavar, Aug 7, 2006.
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I once took a load to a place called the "Magnesium Corporation" or MagCorp. This plant is the worst polluter in the United States, at least the last I heard it was. And what a place it is. It's about 15 miles north of I-80 out in the west desert of Utah all by itself. Good thing, too. When I went there, I was carrying drums of some mysterious liquid (it wasn't HAZ-Mat) they wanted delivered right to their front door. The problem with MagCorp is the stacks there belch nasty chlorine, and you can smell it from ten miles away. When I got to the main gate, I was issued a gas mask to wear while outside the truck and was given special instructions on what to do if I felt ill. Talk about an intimidating place. When I WAS outside the truck, I made mad dashes to and from the cab to make sure none of that foul stuff hung on me.
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The best load I ever hauled was a 25 foot piece of pipe that weighed about 1000 lbs. I hauled it for link belt crane out of Lexington,KY. delivered it in Las Vegas,NV.
I also one time took a load from the same place it was 12 tires and wheels already mounted and aired up.
They sold a crane to a place in Denver and the place bought the crane with regular steel wheels on it.
They called link belt and said they could not rent it, and decided they wanted the shiney aluminum wheels, so I hauled the traded wheels and tires out to Denver. I picked up the 12 steel wheels with the tires from them and brought them right back to link belt in Lex.KY. -
The worst load that I recall was transporting 6 giant tanks of PPG automotive paint from a PPG warehouse in Winsor, ON to St. Louis, MO. Since it was HAZMAT, I had to trek up to Sarnia/Port Huron and THEN head south. When they loaded the trailer, they loaded it all in the nose. Well, there were no public scales along the way so the only place I was able to check was in Detroit. I ended up being 38,000 lbs on the drive axles with the tandems on the 53' trailer all the way up. No good. I called dispatch, told them the situation and they sent me to a god forsaken warehouse in a godforsaken part of old Detroit. They moved the load twice, I bought about 6 loadlocks from them to secure the load. I had to drive 3 blocks to a public scale. With the tandems BACK all the way on the 53' trailer, I was 100 lbs over on the trailer axles. By then the public scale was closed, the warehouse was ready to close so I decided to just roll with it and cross my fingers. I parked at a truckstop just north of the Michigan scale on I-75. When I got word it was closed, I started rolling. Made it through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with no problems. Hit one open scale in Illinois but they took no notice of my tandems being all the way back and just rolled me across.
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I hated those paper loads two. They were always in a big hole in a valley so you had to crawl your way out on the highway and they stink like crap. Another load that sucked was a high value I had teaming had like 10 phone calls with customer service where are you how long till you get there.. blah blah blah.
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The worst load I ever had was duct work going to a state prison down by Hickory NC. They locked me and my truck in this big cage so they could search everything. When I got in there I had to sit at the back of my trailer with a prison guard while they unloaded me. It took them about two hours but it seemed like alot longer. When I was leaving I had to go sit in the cage for about thirty more minutes while the guards were changing shifts. The whole process only took about three hours but it seemed like alot longer.
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Just about every outbound load as a reefer driver (Transam) was the pits- floor loaded boxes of beef. Always waiting at the processing plant for a load, meat plants stink even in the winter. Grocery warehouses- early a.m. delivery where you never unload at the appointed time, having to unload 160-200 cases of beef or pork some places that didn't have lumpers available. I could go on but what's the point.
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i unloaded a special order load of kotex in L.A. one time 9500 small boxes, took 16 hours to unload.
best load a 1000 pound die from kansas city to holland mi..no tarp paid the truck 2.95 a mile for overnight delivery -
As a newbie, I just had an epiphany reading this line about your best run. NOW I understand about being an O/O or lease-operator, and running it as a business! -
Crane parts on a flatbed can be an awful pain.
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