Whats the strangest load you have hauled?
I was recently thinking about some of my more memorable trips and knowing how much truckers like to compare stories I thought this would be an interesting (and entertaining) topic.
While working for JB Hunt as an otr driver back in the winter of 1994 I was dispatched to pick up a load at a lumber mill. When I got there I was loaded up with lumber scraps destined for a paper mill in Green Bay Wisconsin. The shipping foreman was an avid hunter and had gone on an elk hunting trip with his friend ( the receiving manager at the mill in Green Bay). They bagged a huge elk and decided it was cheaper to just put the elk head (had not been treated or mounted yet) on the back of my trailer and shipped to the friends workplace in Green Bay. The head was frozen and had been wrapped up in trash bags to keep it from leaking. I checked with dispatch and was told it had been cleared and just run the load. A little over 3 days later I made the delivery in Green Bay. The guy showed up in a cadillac to take possession of the elk head. It was pretty funny because he could only get the thing part way in the trunk! Anyway he gave me a $50.00 bill for my trouble and took it home.
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