Question:
I know I know I post a lot of crap sorry but a lot of questions have been popping into my head tonite and I also want to be a senior member. What is the most outrageous load you have ever hauled such as edible underwear or most useless load such as a bunch of staples I know I am over exaggerating but I am just curious?
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Was a small portable generator and one pallet from LA to just south of St Paul, MN. The laod could not have weighed more than 600 lbs, and would have fit on the nose plate if I hadnt had to block and brack the generator as it was mounted on a untility trailer. All this in a 53 foot dry van. -->
I will always be a mutter trucker at heart.
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OK, the chair probably qualifies for a little further explanation - I was unloading at a plant in El Paso, when one of the warehouse guys asked where I was headed out to. Told him I was deadheading back home, and he says wait a minute. OK, a few minutes later, he came back with a BOL and a chair to be dropped off in Tucson. Turns out he had brokered some kind of deal with the sales office to carry this chair (it was a custom made job that they had done for one of the plant bigwigs when he transferred). So that they got same day delivery, they would throw it on the first empty that they saw coming out that morning.
We tried unsuccessfully to stick it in the sleeper, so it ended up on the deck - tarped and all. And since they didn't want to mar it with my regular straps, I ended up with a set of nice 1" ratchet straps from the warehouse once I dropped it off -->

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The strangest.....
17 pallets of beer..... on a flatbed. A friend of mine had loaded them out of the Bud Factory in Newark, and he just happened to break down close to where I was waiting for a reload. We called the distributer in Coon Rapids MN. This was a special order of 8 oz bottles, so we talked them into getting them loaded on my flat. Just had to lay down plastic on the deck, loaded the pallets, secured them with V-boards and did my customary "tight" tarp job. Load was accepted without a whimper...
The weirdest....
3 smashed up ford explorers from Denver to SLC. Some rich guys' kid got drunk and smashed up all three of them. The kid walked home after each wreck and took them and smashed 'em up. The rich guy couldn't believe his kid really did it, so I was paid $1000 for a 548 mile trip. BTW, he saw them, paid me, then cried like a baby. He sent me over to a salvage yard to unload them.....
The heaviest......
A 350,000 pound boiler from SLC to Green River WY. No, it didn't fit on my flat. For $14/mile, I parked it and hooked on to a 19-axle specially designed low-boy rig. I had a pusher meet me in Evanston, to make the Sisters, and had WHP and pilot car escorts. Couldn't take it over some overpasses, so had a bit of detouring to do. And could only run at 25mph, and only between 8am and 5pm. Very profitable trip! over $2000 for 143 miles!
The wildest.......
123 trees from Borderland NM to Denver. Whats so wild about that? Well, I loaded them when it was 87 degrees. By the time I hit Raton Pass, it was zero degrees! And Colorado puts down that calcium chloride on the road, so at -10 and dumping snow, the road from Trinidad to Colorado Springs was sopping wet, but everything froze to the trees and my trailer. A load that scaled 5300 lbs was almost 20,000 by the Trinidad scales, and 25,000 at the consignee. Of course, the calcium and ice wasted the load.(YES, I stopped many times and knocked off ice and kept the airlines off the deck) I cringed as the nursery hand began to unload the trees..... white calcium had coated the entire root ball, and some of the trees were frozen to the deck.
BUT... the nursery hand noted that the trees were received in good condition... (!) So no damage claim was sent to my insurance. ALWAYS get the condition of the load noted when the bills are signed! Never know what the receiver thinks about your delivered load!


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1 4" by 3" by 3" box, weighed 2 lbs. Don't know what was in it, BOL listed it as "plastic". Receiver said it was a box of lids for paper cups. Shipper paid for a whole trailer for thei box. Carried it in my cab and loaded anohter load in the trailer.
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