Weird Loads

[Jimmy]

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to Everyone,
Weird Loads,Good subject!!!!......LOL
1.Just finished this one the other week.Took used food prep tables to homes of executives of a world famous doughnut company.Had special instructions on where to leave each one of them & the guy who shipped them kept calling me asking if I delivered each one of them & had to remind me each time, " anyone of these people can fire me!".
2.Took Harley to Mobile ,Al. for an excutive of a company so he could ride it while on the Gulf Coast.
3.Picked up load of Habenero(?) peppers at RDU airpot one time.They had been routed wrong coming out of the Carribean, carried them to Dulles so they could make an overseas connecting flight to Germany!
4.Went to local airport picked up 10 pallets 2 bills. Took 9 pallets(8500lbs.) 3 miles down the road unloaded to warehouse. I was left with one pallet with 1 box on it that weighed 8 pounds. Took it to Point Pleasant,Ohio because someone requested a dock high truck!!!
5.Sometimes I haul flavoring for a company that supplies the world famous doughnut company.Ya'all are right!!!LOL.Boy that Blueberry will linger for a couple of weeks!!! Ya'all be safe now!! Jimmy

 

[NEVERHOME247]

NOT SURE IF THIS IS THE WEIRDEST LOAD I HAULED OR NOT. BUT IT COMES TO MIND IN ANY CASE. I ONCE HAULED A LOAD OF ADULT NOVELTY ITEMS FROM LA TO PHOENIX. NOT SURE WHY THEY WERE EXPEDITED????

 

[RedBird]

Some weird loads I've encountered in my expediting experiences;

1. 800lbs of frozen fried chicken to a KFC restaurant for grand opening in Pittsburgh from Atlanta.

2. 1000lbs of chocolate candy from Bolingbrook, IL to Medford WI. The vending service company needed it bad!

3. Another separate trip of 1000lbs of candy bars on a split trip, from Bolingbrook, IL with one stop in Sullivan, IN and the other in LaCrosse, WI. For school fundraiser sale!

4. A large suction pump and hose, from Green Bay, WI to Munster, IN for the flooding in Indiana in 2008. Even made the WGN TV 9 morning news live!

5. A shorty run of pornographic magazines from North Aurora, IL to Munster, IN

 

[asjssl]

Last year I had a casket.....it was a. Custom built for a very large man ....it just fit between the wheel wells of my van......it went from nc. To Delaware.......

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[Lawrence]

A few of these are awesome! I would love to feature a few of these in our magazine - Expedite NOW. Our new staff writer Scott Loftis will be in touch with you!

 

[Freightdawg]

I'm kind of an oddity in here in that I do expedite by air. I'm one of the guys you see at the airport when you pick up or deliver. We do the same thing as you, only different. Here are some of my stranger loads. Along with our usual loads of day old chickens to Mexico, or Jfk or other major airports, I have hauled guidance systems for cruise missles and an engineer, from Camden, AR to Tucson, Az. Once hauled a dolphin with handlers from Galveston, Tx to Panama City, Fl. One of the Casinos at Tunica, MS had me fly a set of golf clubs to Chicago so that one of their high rollers could make a 8am tee time. After a big snow storm shut down the interstates near Denver, I hauled a load of pizza dough, cheese and sauce from St. Louis, to Rifle, Co. You never know what someone needs in a hurry. It is nice to see the relieved looks on people's faces when their priority load arrives safe and sound and on time, or better yet, early!

 

[scottm4211]

Quite often I take boxes of time sensitive lottery tickets from a printer in Toronto to weird little towns in Quebec. I put them in my car and enjoy the drive. They also pay ridiculously well.

 

[nightcreacher]

I once had a load of matresses going to a hotel,that shouldn't have been crazy,but the load went to an open field,where the hotel was going to be built.3 months from the day I was there.The shipper inverted a 6 and a 9.
How about a 5 gal pail with radioactive dirt that had to be kept temp.Picked up in Pa,delivered Fl.Took electric control pannels to a electri job site in california,No qualcoms,no phones.Delivered to the site,was told where to go,and 8 hrs later,they came and appologized as they forgot us.All three of these loads while I was at Roberts Express

 

[scottm4211]

Back in the late 80's I would run empty from Toronto area to a pulp and paper mill way up in northern Ontario (900 miles) to pick up plastic drums of water to be tested at a lab in Georgia.
Never could figure that one out.

 

[purgoose10]

I picked up a brown manila envelope the company said to handle with care. I threw it on dash and delivered it the next day. The man asked me if I knew what it was? No I have no Idea but would like to know why someone would pay for a D unit and Expedite and me $1.75 a mile. He opened the envelope and there was $150,000 in cash. I almost fainted. That was in 2004.

 

[RedBird]

I picked up a brown manila envelope the company said to handle with care. I threw it on dash and delivered it the next day. The man asked me if I knew what it was? No I have no Idea but would like to know why someone would pay for a D unit and Expedite and me $1.75 a mile. He opened the envelope and there was $150,000 in cash. I almost fainted. That was in 2004.

Goose, can you say BIG armored car!...LOL

 

[RedBird]

I'm kind of an oddity in here in that I do expedite by air. I'm one of the guys you see at the airport when you pick up or deliver. We do the same thing as you, only different. Here are some of my stranger loads. Along with our usual loads of day old chickens to Mexico, or Jfk or other major airports, I have hauled guidance systems for cruise missles and an engineer, from Camden, AR to Tucson, Az. Once hauled a dolphin with handlers from Galveston, Tx to Panama City, Fl. One of the Casinos at Tunica, MS had me fly a set of golf clubs to Chicago so that one of their high rollers could make a 8am tee time. After a big snow storm shut down the interstates near Denver, I hauled a load of pizza dough, cheese and sauce from St. Louis, to Rifle, Co. You never know what someone needs in a hurry. It is nice to see the relieved looks on people's faces when their priority load arrives safe and sound and on time, or better yet, early!

I ran a load.....1000lbs of pizza dough for Domino's from their warehouse in Bolingbrook, IL to their warehouse in St. Peters, MO back on Superbowl Sunday, in 2006.

 

[Doggie Daddy]

Dang Redbird you were so deep in the archives to find this 7 year old thread that you are lucky to have found your way back out to the present.

That's twice in two days that I did not notice the date of the original post, and thought that piper1 and Glen Rice had started posting again on the forum. (BTW, whatever happened to piper1 ? I miss his mechanical knowledge and humor here on EO ).

 

[RedBird]

Dang Redbird you were so deep in the archives to find this 7 year old thread that you are lucky to have found your way back out to the present.

That's twice in two days that I did not notice the date of the original post, and thought that piper1 and Glen Rice had started posting again on the forum. (BTW, whatever happened to piper1 ? I miss his mechanical knowledge and humor here on EO ).

Doggy,
I was bored at work last night trying to stay awake, I found it amusing to see who still chats on here from 5 yrs ago, but more so, I found it interesting to see what kind of stuff people have hauled in their expedite experiences. Granted I opened up a can of worms so to speak regarding the topic of "getting shafted in Maumee" however I don't care if it happened 5yrs ago, I'm sure that practice still ocurrs today, and felt in my opinion a driver should not get screwed out of his money for a trip he completed...late or not! If the customer refuses to pay a carrier that is between them, but at least cover the driver for his fuel expense and tolls.

 

[scottm4211]

Dang Redbird you were so deep in the archives to find this 7 year old thread that you are lucky to have found your way back out to the present.

That's twice in two days that I did not notice the date of the original post, and thought that piper1 and Glen Rice had started posting again on the forum. (BTW, whatever happened to piper1 ? I miss his mechanical knowledge and humor here on EO ).

I've seen him posting on a Sprinter forum.

 

[purgoose10]

Goose, can you say BIG armored car!...LOL

The man told me they have done it before and they weren't that afraid to do a couple of times, but they said they knew the word would get out. I never thought about it until after but I wish I got pictures of it. That's the only time dispatch called me every two hours. I know that will never happen again.