Interesting Loads

[jackdixon_2000]

Occasionally the topic comes up here on the loads we haul that make expediting interesting. Unfortunatly many are classified and we have to keep them to ourselves. But this one I think is ok to mention since it is in the news and public knowledge. Early tomorrow morning NASA will be crashing a booster rocket into the moon and the "shepherd" spacecraft carrying the "LCROSS" instrument package will fly through the dust plume analyzing the contents in a search for water.
In November of 2007 I hauled the LCROSS from NASA in Sunnyvale,Ca to El Segundo,Ca. Film crews from NASA were there to document the loading and departure. An Escort vehicle had to accompany me along with a project manager riding along in the truck, with stops every hour to hook a computer to the instrument package to test for shock.
LCROSS was launched on June 18th and tomorrow is the big day.
It was really cool seeing it on the front page of the USA Today, today and knowing I contributed a small part to the mission.

 

[Scuba]

pretty cool

 

[Dakota]

I hauled 2 skids of "global warming" pamplets going from Fort Wayne, Indiana to North Carolina. Using my straight truck that gets 9 mpg. Thought that was pretty ironic
If they were really concerned about global warming, why not send it via E-mail

 

[TeamCaffee]

Jack that was an awesome load! Glad you posted about it.

 

[pelicn]

That's a cool load for sure! A few weeks ago we hauled something called an IvGen. It was a machine that enabled the astronauts to have IV's in space in case of injuries. We picked it up after it went through all of it's testing and the guys were very excited about it.

 

[chefdennis]

Very cool!! as you said, to know you had a small part in whats about to happen is also pretty neat stuff!! Thats one to tell the grand kids about, especially if they do find evidence if water up there....

 

[TheOGExpediterGuy]

Last time I was in Laredo, I hauled 10 mexicans across the Border Check Point for $500 a head!!! LOL J/K

 

[Darmstadter]

Last time I was in Laredo, I hauled 10 mexicans across the Border Check Point for $500 a head!!! LOL J/K

You wouldn't happen to work for ACORN would ya?

 

[piper1]

Very cool Jack! Just think what it would have paid if you got to take it to it's final spot. That's what, 394,000 miles or something? Moot will know, he's from there I think.

 

[Streakn1]

Thats one of the few things I miss about our FECC days, getting to do the NASA loads such as the Mars lunar rovers and new test lenses for the Hubble telescope. But we since moved on to bigger and better things that only go into subspace! LOL

Just did a run that had us pickup a good jet engine at a hangar. We took it a ways to another hanger. There it was off loaded to be mounted on a jet that appearently took a big bird through one of its engines. The damaged engine was loaded onto our deck so we could haul it to a repair facility to be rebuilt.

 

[Doggie Daddy]

Back in 2004 we had a load that consisted of components for the deep impact spacecraft. That was the mission that also was a two part spacecraft,with one part impacting the comet Tempel 1 and the other part flying through the debris cloud.

We really don't know what we were hauling but it was a large wooden box painted white with "fragile,space hardware" stenciled on it.

No escorts or film crews but it was pretty cool all the same.

 

[layoutshooter]

Sometimes they are cool loads like that and other times, well, just strange. We just hauled a truck load of art. When we were securing one of the creates we were told to be EXTRA careful with that piece, it was EXTRA fragile, a sculpture that would break easily. We asked what it was and the lady stated that: "It is a chair with a lump of fat on it." Mrs. Layoutshooter asked her if it was representitive of what happens if you just sit on your PATUTE too long!! She kinda stared for a second and said: "I guess that is one interpitation of it" They say that art is in the eye of the beholder. Darn, I never knew I was "art". I do that same "sculpture" EVERYTIME I sit in a chair!!!!

 

[Moot]

That's what, 394,000 miles or something? Moot will know, he's from there I think.

Hey Hoser, (insert smiley face) on average the earth is about 238,900 miles or 384,000 kilometers, eh!

 

[wimpy007]

A few years back, we pick up some 13th or 14th century armor from a museum in Lakeland, Fl. going to Wooster, Ma. Next we pick up at Kennedy Space Center equipment for the space mission going to Long Island, talk about a time span.

 

[Moot]

A couple of hours ago I delivered 3 blast doors to a pipe coating plant in Panama City to replace the doors they blew up Monday.
Blast injures 4 at Florida pipe coating facility |

 

[Bruno]

I remember when White Glove at FedEx Custom Critical called me on a Friday nite to go pick up a shippment for Speed of sound. I got to the pick up and it was the rock group Smash Mouth. I sat back stage with them before the show started and then watched the show. It was a great show too. I left and I met them at the House of Blues in Chicago 2 days later and they asked me to sit down and eat lunch with them. Very cool guys.

 

[letzrockexpress]

As we speak, a guy I know is hauling 15 cadavers,
people that have donated their bodies to science, from Las Vegas to a lab in Denver... There's a joke there somewhere.

 

[Dakota]

As we speak, a guy I know is hauling 15 cadavers,
people that have donated their bodies to science, from Las Vegas to a lab in Denver... There's a joke there somewhere.

Did he get DeadHead pay? Sorry couln't resist

 

[layoutshooter]

Be ashamed Dakota!! Be ASHAMED!!

 

[Doggie Daddy]

Next we pick up at Kennedy Space Center equipment for the space mission going to Long Island, talk about a time span.

WOW, I had no idea that NASA had missions to Long Island.

I wonder if there is intelligent life there.