Whats the strangest load you have hauled?

[JLKKLJ777]

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.

[pro1driver]

well i'm not so sure this would be the "strangest load" i ever hauled, but certainly the lightest. i had to go to the (now defunct) Texas Instruments in nearby Massachusetts (sp?), and take a load to someplace in Pa. it was one stinkin' pallet, with one box, weighing only about 6 pounds. the pallet weighed more than the load.

but hey...."it had to get there".......

oh yeah, on a 53' trailer no less........

[brtecson]

Originally Posted by pro1driver

well i'm not so sure this would be the "strangest load" i ever hauled, but certainly the lightest. i had to go to the (now defunct) Texas Instruments in nearby Massachusetts (sp?), and take a load to someplace in Pa. it was one stinkin' pallet, with one box, weighing only about 6 pounds. the pallet weighed more than the load.

but hey...."it had to get there".......

oh yeah, on a 53' trailer no less........

can you say..... UPS? haha

[pro1driver]

Originally Posted by brtecson

can you say..... UPS? haha

yeah, i know. it would have been way cheaper too...huh...??

it was a very important "HOT" item that had to get there. Texas Instruments was a regular customer of ours (my former employer that is) so it seemed "OK" for it to be shipped this way. i'll never know what it cost, but i do seem to remember that back then, my former employer was getting 85¢ per mile to haul out of New England. i don't even remember the amount of miles it was either, but it was about 4-to-5 hours driving time, around or just past the Allentown area..............

maybe it was even done "no charge" as well since Texas Instruments was a regular customer, and i had to get to Richmond, VA (the headquarters) for a load coming back up north. i'll never know all those seedy little details.

just what i hauled that day.............

[copenhagen junk]

Probably not in the class of strangest but maybe stupid may work!
I was in Waterloo IA in the middle of winter with about 7" of snow on the ground & still coming down in a single axle CH model Mack,pulling a 48'trl hauling a 10 lb box of truck mail to Des Moines IA, which took about 3 & half hrs to get there in one piece!

[Chucklotto]

I really miss pulling a set of empty pups for CF from Cedar Rapids,Iowa to Peru,Ill in the freezing rain once......