Whats the worst load?

Rolls of fiberglass insulation. I had to unload a 53' trailer fully loaded with rolls of insulation in Long Island in the middle of August. Hot and itchy. Oh and to make things worse this was my first solo trip ever!

 

A load of wet sheep skin all loaded by hand (not mine) with lime salt thrown in between each skin. When they hand unloaded it all, I was stuck with about a foot of this lime salt covering the floor of the trailer and smelled like the slaughter house.

 

A few years ago, i did a 4 month contract job for the military. Lots of expense getting cleared and certified for Class 1.3...

I never worried when I pinned up to a load that weighed heavy. When I pinned to a load that didn't even bump my air guage - that's when I got nervous! That meant I had the primers and caps suspended from a sling on board... one mistake, and they would have been scraping little pieces of me out of the surrounding countryside....

 

4mm glass going to Tulsa. I broke 17 84"X144" pieces.

 

Rolled up carpet pads, to some carpet store in Albuquerque. They wanted me to climb up to the top of the inside of my 53 foot trailer, somehow, without a ladder, and then crawl over them, ~1-1/2 feet of crawl space, and assist, e,g. push them off.
I had no health insurance--I hadn't worked for the company the requisite 90 days to qualify for it--and I am afraid of heights. They wanted me to pay them $90 out of my pocket for them to do it, which I didn't have, and my company refused to authorize any sort of unloading fee. I basically told them that if they wanted the pads, they were going to have to do it themselves, otherwise I would haul the trailer back where I got it from. And I told my dispatcher pretty much the same thing. They worked something out eventually. Carpet pads are a veritable pain in the neck--they weigh a ton, it's hot--generally takes 2-3 hrs of backbreaking labor to unload, even with assistance of a store crew, and you are absolutely in no shape to drive when you get through.

 

I didn't haul this load (haven't started driving yet) but I did have to unload it for the UPS-like company I worked for up till last week.

Every night we'd get in a 53 footer...

10' of car tires (I HATE CAR TIRES!!!!)
10' of paper and other "office" supplies from a major office supply chain. (That was NOT easy *******)
10' of boxes full of nuts, bolts, washers, tubes with rebar and metal rods etc..
10' of bagged "as seen on TV" junk, and catalog clothing orders
10' of other random CRAP that had to go through our terminal from the other one.

I tell ya, the worst part had to be the stupid tires though.
Then there's the ******* little chocolate boxes in christmas season, 10,000 boxes about 3"x3"x2" in a 53 footer (like they were shot in there with a conveyor and left where they landed)

 

This one wins....hands down.

 

I agree, that's one nasty load. Right now with my company, I hand unload about 48 feet of flour, pizza boxes, cans of sauce, frozen cheese, beef, cases of candy, chips, to about 7-10 stops every day. I drive about 250-300 miles round trip. I can't wait until next week!

 

A load of wet sheep skin all loaded by hand (not mine) with lime salt thrown in between each skin. When they hand unloaded it all, I was stuck with about a foot of this lime salt covering the floor of the trailer and smelled like the slaughter house.

Sure this wasn't FEAR FACTOR ?!

 

Hauling shrubbery from tree farms in Oregon to Lowes or local greenhouses were crappy loads. Had to unload hundreds of potted plants, bushes and small trees by hand.