Strange or Odd Deliveries

**RichM** · 06-18-2007, 04:23 PM

On a Sunday afternoon I delivered a message to some guy who was fishing at a lake right above Columbus OH. The message was to tell him to call his office. I was given a description of him plus his vehicle. I found him and had him sign the receipt that I gave him the message. Then he went back to fishing.
Guess that was the end of his carrer with that company and it was probably for the best.

**nighttrain** · 06-18-2007, 07:12 PM

wasnt really odd or strange but on 2 different times we were in chicago and to pick up 2 envelopes take them to the irs building in detroit and then take some back again

then was at pfizer in memphis and was talking to a h/w team and told me they had to take 2 polar bears from airport to a zoo

**cargodreaming** · 06-18-2007, 11:56 PM

I waited at the Columbia SC airport baggage to get a frozen 10 lb chicken. It was on dry ice and had to be delivered to Greensboro asap. When I arrived I asked the restaurant manager what was so special about this chicken he said it was 10 lbs. go figure. :P I also delivered a spare tire to Philly for a man with a flat tire out of Charlotte.

**cheri1122** · 06-19-2007, 12:04 AM

The oddest freight so far, was a nosecone for an aircraft - it looked a lot like an igloo, actually - but the best part was when I pulled up to the gate at delivery, and read the sign: "Taxiing aircraft have the right of way" Well, DUH! Who's gonna argue with them? :P

**FireGears** · 06-19-2007, 12:21 AM

"Taxiing aircraft have the right of way"
Well, DUH! Who's gonna argue with them?

Oooooops..!!!

You're thinking as a professional driver, Cheri.

Think of all the times you have seen
self-focused drivers TAKE the Right-of-way.

I've seen them ignore everything from
pedestrians, emergency vehicles (both responding and parked)
AND aircraft both on the ground, landing/taking off...

VERY Scary but too true...

That's why as professional drivers we must
"Look up, down and all around.!"

Keep Smiling..!!!!

**BigBuzd1** · 06-19-2007, 02:49 AM

Thats exactly what we went through...it's so weird to come to a stop sign and have a jumbo jet cross in front of ya. here we are getting our tour of the aircraft.

**bambam** · 06-19-2007, 06:58 AM

nothing that weird for me yet but my other half is a nedical currier so you can just imananage what he put in his car every day from body parts eye balls to human sh&* and every thing in between

**Doggie Daddy** · 06-19-2007, 11:01 AM

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

**Moot** · 06-19-2007, 11:20 AM

I think they are in the cab of a new Sprinter.

**BigBuzd1** · 06-19-2007, 12:17 PM

yea I thought that was comical, too...in one of the other pics you can see our truck off to the port side.

**greg334** · 06-19-2007, 12:48 PM

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!

**theoldprof** · 06-19-2007, 04:35 PM

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".
:+ :+

**lisalewis** · 06-19-2007, 05:37 PM

We've delivered broken down cardboard boxes across the country (don't exactly know who would pay to have those expedited?)

**Doggie Daddy** · 06-19-2007, 07:25 PM

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.

**jeffman164** · 06-20-2007, 01:52 AM

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.