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Has anyone ever hauled live lobster, or other seafood? Does it pay well? How would someone even secure such a load? Do they have to ship them in tankers filled with salt water, or what?

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Wish I could tell u as a fact,but I'm just makin an educated guess. I'd say they'd be packed on ice and time sensetive as all get out. At least that's how they were shipped when I worked for the airlines. As far as securing the load were u talkin bout tie downs or getting a load from some where? Sorry could'ntbe more help.
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Lobstah. . .Well you could just drive down to Commercial street in the Right Portland and talk to the Lobstah fishahmen, but being as your from the Left Portland, Crabs would be your best bet.
Short haul them on Ice. Should slow their little systems down a bit. Coast to coast, you could drive a 747 with a big ice laden container of the little bugs of the sea, but a Freightliner may interfere with your ability to advertise them as . . .Fresh?!?!?
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fish are transported in stainless steel containers filled with water, strapped to the deck of a flatbed (usually a straight truck from what I've seen).
Some even go so far as to aeriate (sp?) the tanks.
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are shipped air freight. That way it is alive when it arrives at it's destination a few hours later.
Only ones shipped by truck are local, or within a certain radius.

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I understand in Montana they let the lobsters roam the high ground until fall and then they conduct a lobster drive to bring them back down to the prairie where they are fattened. They are shipped on hooks attached to long rails that run along the ceiling of refridgerated trucks. If you haul them, watch out on curves,they will flip you over in a second. Oh yeah, they bite too.

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I have a friend that runs seafood and shrimp here in SW Fl,. He makes alot of money. But you might as well not buy a log book. That stuff has to move fast. It's all ltl freight and has to get to each drop fast.
He likes it but nearly impossible to get into. In this area anyway.
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I heard that same thing CaboverPete. Didn't know they would bite though. just thought they pinched.
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Well,
to secure fish you gotta use tanker load locks,but takes a day or two gettin used to putting them things in, ya gotta do it after loading,
Lobster, you gotta strap down or they get fighting or breeding, hard to tell but those damn things can undo tanker load locks.
BTW, carry extra butter in case of a roll over
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They pinch too.
Have a friend (last of the outlaws, runs solo )runs produce from Cal to Hunts point and frozen fish from Mass to San Francisco. He may have 30 or 40 stops on the Frisco run. He has a small reefer 6 wheeler parked in Cal. and delivers to Asian markets and has even delivered to restaurants. When he's done ....back to Hunts point....
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