Strange or Odd Deliveries
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Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
BigBuzd1,that is a great picture.It almost has the ilusion that you are flying the plane on a night flight,except for the fact that there's a stop sign in front of you.:7
greg334
Veteran Expediter
Here's one that just happened.
I got an offer last evening for a pick up in Grand Junction CO and I am in Colorado Springs. It is a pallet that needs to be picked up at the airport and delivered 10 miles away.
OK, I took it and got paid rather well so off to Grand Junction I went.
On my way, I sat in a traffic jam outside of Denver, after that I sat watching a car burn on I70. I passed a forest fire, real interesting. On the way I had to play leap frog with some idiot in a uhaul and a car they were following - they just had to get in front of me and slow down to 35 MPH because they could not handle driving it at night.
Well it turns out that this went to a place just off the airport property, about 900 feet from the pickup.
So from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction airport to 900 feet from the pickup - go figure.
Oh really nice thing was when they unloaded the crate, they used a skytrak and just took it off the truck and extended the arm right into the lobby of the building, amazing!
I got an offer last evening for a pick up in Grand Junction CO and I am in Colorado Springs. It is a pallet that needs to be picked up at the airport and delivered 10 miles away.
OK, I took it and got paid rather well so off to Grand Junction I went.
On my way, I sat in a traffic jam outside of Denver, after that I sat watching a car burn on I70. I passed a forest fire, real interesting. On the way I had to play leap frog with some idiot in a uhaul and a car they were following - they just had to get in front of me and slow down to 35 MPH because they could not handle driving it at night.
Well it turns out that this went to a place just off the airport property, about 900 feet from the pickup.
So from Colorado Springs to Grand Junction airport to 900 feet from the pickup - go figure.
Oh really nice thing was when they unloaded the crate, they used a skytrak and just took it off the truck and extended the arm right into the lobby of the building, amazing!
theoldprof
Veteran Expediter
I was in Windsor and got a load offer: Go to Detroit and find Joe Shmoe or whomever in van No. XXXXXX. He wouldn't answer his phone or QC. They didn't know if he was sick, dead, or whatever. They gave me some street coordinates. I went to the intersection and talked to dispatch. "A little more North". Etc. Etc. Finally found the guy. He looked like death warmed over. I asked him if he was Joe Shmoe and he said yes. I told him my load was to locate him and report back to dispatch if he was OK. He was just totally exhausted from back to back loads. (Remember those?) I gave him my PRO bill to sign, gave him the cons copy, called dispatch, and went on my merry way. Got paid a mini and a border crossing. By this time I had followed EO advice to "Spell it out on the QC".
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Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
We once hauled a Rolls Royce jet aircraft engine for a small cargo airline.Nothing strange or odd about that.The strange(or odd)part was that between p/u and delivery we came in contact with about 6 different people from this airline,and with each different person the value of this engine increased.
By the time we went from p/u to delivery the value went from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.DD.
BTW,I never asked any of these people what the value was but they all felt the need to tell me anyways.
By the time we went from p/u to delivery the value went from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000.DD.
BTW,I never asked any of these people what the value was but they all felt the need to tell me anyways.
jeffman164
Seasoned Expediter
Had the same experience when delivered Rolls Royce jet engine. They told me it was valued at 2.6 mil. They must just love to tell people the cost. The part that shocked me was when I went to close up shop and discovered an oil puddle that had dripped on my floor.
nightcreacher
Veteran Expediter
5 lb pale of radio active dirt,kept 42 degrees,picked up in pa taken to fl,harder to secure than haul
dieselphreak2K
Expert Expediter
My personal best was 6000lbs of Laffy Taffy in 300lb bricks that had to cross half the USA overnight.
What kind of emergency requires taffy?
As they say, If you get paid to haul it, who cares why?
What kind of emergency requires taffy?
As they say, If you get paid to haul it, who cares why?
Doggie Daddy
Veteran Expediter
>My personal best was 6000lbs of Laffy Taffy in 300lb bricks
>that had to cross half the USA overnight.
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>What kind of emergency requires taffy?
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We once hauled 2 skids of SPAM from the bay area of Calif. to L.A.
What kind of emergency requires SPAM.
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>that had to cross half the USA overnight.
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>What kind of emergency requires taffy?
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We once hauled 2 skids of SPAM from the bay area of Calif. to L.A.
What kind of emergency requires SPAM.
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scottanhelen
Seasoned Expediter
we had a load that pu in pa and deliver to nashville tn to the cma country music assoication it was yankee candles come to fine out they were giving them to the country singers in a christmas baskets that was really cool. our truck smell so good for a while :7 :7 
theoldprof
Veteran Expediter
I hauled some kind of munchies from a WalMart or Sams Club. It seems that this stuff goes to some sort of "market", where the area managers or buyers would pig out on this stuff and then decide what stuff they wanted to carry in their stores. At least that what I was told.
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RIGHT OF WAY example..
6/21/07
Several firefighters were injured in two separate crashes on yesterday afternoon while responding to previous crashes in Texas. The crash occurred when a fire crew of the Sandy Oak Fire Department responded to the scene of a previous crash in Southern Bexar County. An 18-wheeler somehow lost control and slammed into the fire truck at the intersection of Highway 281 and Mogford Road. The impact of the collision spun the fire apparatus around 180 degrees and spilled fire hoses out onto the highway. EMS sent a 49-year-old firefighter to University Hospital and a 30-year-old firefighter to Methodist Hospital. The 59-year-old driver of the big rig was taken to Southeast Baptist Hospital. There is no word on their conditions.
6/21/07
Several firefighters were injured in two separate crashes on yesterday afternoon while responding to previous crashes in Texas. The crash occurred when a fire crew of the Sandy Oak Fire Department responded to the scene of a previous crash in Southern Bexar County. An 18-wheeler somehow lost control and slammed into the fire truck at the intersection of Highway 281 and Mogford Road. The impact of the collision spun the fire apparatus around 180 degrees and spilled fire hoses out onto the highway. EMS sent a 49-year-old firefighter to University Hospital and a 30-year-old firefighter to Methodist Hospital. The 59-year-old driver of the big rig was taken to Southeast Baptist Hospital. There is no word on their conditions.
we hauled the prototype for fedex and the gov. manpass project. they would not even speculate a value. northrop grumman had a team of 21 people working on this 24 hours a day almost 365 for 3yrs. it was a pod that hung on the belly of fdx overseas cargo planes that would jamm surface to air missles. they also hoped to use this on domestic overseas flights . saw a release on abc news about this a few months ago. del. this to mojave airport to fedex and mojave test associates {testing contractors for the gov.}. pulled on the tarmak along side a 727 fedex revamped out of the decomisioned stock that mojave keeps there. if you have ever noticed all the planes on your right when you are on 58 going past mojave thats the place. anyway lots of fedex poeple around, would not unload till the execs showed up {2 leer jets full of them} then after all the introductions, {all very nice and helpfull people} they asked where their pod was we thought it was here at 9am this morning, we replied it is and pointed at our conway now truck. they then asked the question of why a fedex involved project was on a conway trk instead of a fedex trk which my witty wife spoke up and said when it absolutely positively has to be there over night. we all got a good laugh, they unloaded us treated us very well and were just as gratefull as if their own trk would have del. it. as i restate, really great bunch. initially very odd though.
nighttrain
Seasoned Expediter
my first owner i drove was telling me how he got a run going i think from delaware dowm to st pete fl
it was some type of prototype druugs and the run he said i think was like almost 10 grand and it had to be temp controlled an at that time his reefer was on the blink wouldnt cool down past 68
so he turned on his bunk a/c and cranked it all the way up and kept it in his bunk (which the box was like 3 pounds)
and when i was driving for bruno me and his brother got a nice one going minn min to socorro nm it was 4 foot high dummy rounds for a really huge gun
funny thing was when we left the pick-up where told the color of the day to get out
think it was passion pink or something like that
it was some type of prototype druugs and the run he said i think was like almost 10 grand and it had to be temp controlled an at that time his reefer was on the blink wouldnt cool down past 68
so he turned on his bunk a/c and cranked it all the way up and kept it in his bunk (which the box was like 3 pounds)
and when i was driving for bruno me and his brother got a nice one going minn min to socorro nm it was 4 foot high dummy rounds for a really huge gun
funny thing was when we left the pick-up where told the color of the day to get out
think it was passion pink or something like that