What is the strangest load that you did as an expediter?

[CharlesD]

When I was doing courier, I would occasionally pick up produce from a produce company and deliver to local restaurants. It was usually because the restaurant was running short on something and the produce company didn't want to send one of their trucks with a couple boxes of lettuce, so they would use the courier company I was driving for. One day I went there and picked up 8 bananas and 2 heads of lettuce. The restaurant manager was very happy to see me because they were completely out of lettuce. Right across the parking lot from the restaurant was a grocery store.

 

[fastman_1]

6 Headlights from G.E. to the Jeep Plant in Toledo
2 Bolts and Washers from Cleveland to Fort Wayne

 

[tyoung]

don't really remember the details of where i went.but i had a coleman cooler full of dirt packed in ice.they called it soil samples...to me it was dirt...lol

 

[piper1]

6 still warm cupcakes.......for 45 miles. It took every bit of willpower I had to make sure there were still 6 of them at the P O D. Best the cab ever smelled.

 

[theoldprof]

Picked up a 4 inch diameter roll of shipping labels. Don't remember to and from. Stopped at McD for lunch and asked for an extra sack to put the labels in. Stapled the bag closed and put it on the front seat. Went to delivery guard shack, the cop on the gate paged the guy who came out, didn't look in the bag, grabbed it, signed for it and walked back into the plant.

Nuther time was in Canada. Dispatch called for me to find a Panther CV in Detroit who didn't answer his phone or QC. She gave me some coordinates. I went across the bridge, circled a couple block area and kept looking. Was on the phone with dispatch the whole time. Finally found the guy in McD parking lot. He looked like shat. Said he was totally exhausted. I handed him my clipboard and said "sign here". He signed for POD.

 

[guido4475]

8,000 pounds of winnie the pooh displays. i had to hire a lumper for that one!!!

 

[arrbsthw]

We carried 2 cases of caulk 1700 miles to a Sherwin Williams store in podunk IA. Was for a contractor trying to finish a
Walmart store

 

[flattop40]

Its funny this subject came up cause mine happened just last week. Thought about doing this thread then but didn't.

Picked up a box at the Southwest Cargo at the Indy airport. 660 miles later delivered in Philly to a university. Had to maintain temp of van between 55-85. It was a box of LAB RATS When I was first told about this load I himmmed and Hawwed. But 660 miles @ $1/mile plus fsc plus an extra $50 to maintain temp in van I decided to take it.

Asked loadplanner if they were infected and she said she didn't know. My thought tho was one of these lab rats may have the cure for cancer or aids or diabetes. Who knows. Just doing my part to save the world

 

[DougTravels]

2 come to mind for me:

1: a load of hay, with 1 skid of feed from either BFConnecticut or BF Mass (can't remember which)to South East Pennsylvania. I got to the farm in PA in the middle of the night, several trailers with labs in them, unlocked with lights on computers running but no one around. The next morning workers woke me in, white jumpsuits. I was thinking it was some kind of a cult or something. After talking with one of the workers, I found out it was a medical farm. Sheep blood and various other animal products used for medicines and research. They grew their own food for the stock, I'm still not sure why they didn't grow it nearer to their facility, but they needed to be sure of the chemicals used in growing it.

2: 2 displays of Duracell batteries, the cardboard ones that you see in stores from Chatanooga to LA full rate 600 lbs. When I got to the pick up at Overnite Crossdock in Chatanooga they had rows of these boxes stamped deliver by the previous month.
7 expedite trucks waiting (straights sprinters and vans)to be loaded each taking 2 - 4 each. All of us were going out west to Lowes stores (or maybe Home Depots) some to Washington ,Oregon and Cali. 7 or 8 more showed up after me. I wonder how much that blunder cost them.

It was a couple of years back any1 else involved in the great duracell run west?

 

[transporter]

hey flattop you know you were just involved in a rat rendition.

 

[pelicn]

The kitchen for a 747

 

[moose]

I took a slot machine to some place in Vegas that repairs them. Thing had to be blanket wrapped and strapped down nine ways to Sunday.

Not an Expedite , yet , after the hurricane i have recovered Slots from a casino that was floating in the beyU area and took it to the same WHS in Vegas , a truckload .
also from the same WHS ,a Double deck TL to Hollywood for the set of Ocean's 13 . - one of the Gilmore girls did not liked at all that i parked in her reserved spot ...



Moose.

 

[termite289]

vault liners, the plastic things that go between the concrete vaults, and the coffins.
groceries on an expedite truck. the warehouse manager didn't understand why i was happy to wait 5 hours, until he got a phone call about detention time. they didn't even ask if i wanted a lumper



i too was involved in the battery blunder. i took 2 skids to la, one to lowes store, and one to home depot warehouse. Chattanooga tn to la. tractor trailer.

2 come to mind for me:

1: a load of hay, with 1 skid of feed from either BFConnecticut or BF Mass (can't remember which)to South East Pennsylvania. I got to the farm in PA in the middle of the night, several trailers with labs in them, unlocked with lights on computers running but no one around. The next morning workers woke me in, white jumpsuits. I was thinking it was some kind of a cult or something. After talking with one of the workers, I found out it was a medical farm. Sheep blood and various other animal products used for medicines and research. They grew their own food for the stock, I'm still not sure why they didn't grow it nearer to their facility, but they needed to be sure of the chemicals used in growing it.

2: 2 displays of Duracell batteries, the cardboard ones that you see in stores from Chatanooga to LA full rate 600 lbs. When I got to the pick up at Overnite Crossdock in Chatanooga they had rows of these boxes stamped deliver by the previous month.
7 expedite trucks waiting (straights sprinters and vans)to be loaded each taking 2 - 4 each. All of us were going out west to Lowes stores (or maybe Home Depots) some to Washington ,Oregon and Cali. 7 or 8 more showed up after me. I wonder how much that blunder cost them.

It was a couple of years back any1 else involved in the great duracell run west?

 

[jujubeans]

there would be 3

#!. A cancelled check for 260,000,000. bucks from a bank in Toronto to NYC

#2. A pregnant pygmy boa constrictor.

#3. Black plastic bags of air (to be tested)

 

[transporter]

took 1 jeep engine in a blue box from detroit to la. and brought empty blue box back to detroit

 

[nightcreacher]

5 gal bucket of radioactive dirt,temp controlled from PA to Fl,hard part was securing it in trailer,customer ordered ER unit.

 

[jeffman164]

1. A Sponge Bob thinga ma bob . No children - so I had no clue what it was until they explained it to me . Looked a little creepy to me but I guess kids love it .
2. A Halloween display - delivered it expedite in March .
3. Egg McMuffin mix . There were 8 trucks waiting for that magical batch . Not into junk food so that one kind of surprised me .
4. A Kiddie fire extinguisher in a regular box , that I picked up at I think Fort Worth airport and delivered to Little Rock airport .

 

[fastman_1]

Oh yea I forgot about the 20,50# bags of Flour from Toledo Ohio to Cross Lanes W.VA, Going to a Pizza Shop had to be there at 6am, nobody showed up till 10am

 

[RLENT]

A 6" roll of labels from Troy, OH to Chrysler Belvidere .... only they didn't go the plant they went to some guys house out north of Belvidere by about 10 miles ... he was waiting on them so he could go in and relabel a shipment of exhaust systems that had been mislabeled from the factory.

Two automotive batteries (wet) from East Penn Mfg./Deka Batteries from over around Pottstown, PA to the Sterling plant in St. Thomas, ON (... like these couldn't have been sourced locally ?)

And the topper .... a bunch of broken-down cardboard boxes of various sizes (new I would assume, although you wouldn't know it by looking), these were loose on a single pallet (about 6" high) ..... and were in pretty ratty shape ...... Salem, OH to either Tiffin or Defiance, OH (I woulda used them to start the wood furnace at the house ....)

 

[cannedmeat27]

My smallest load was a ziploc sandwich bag with 2 small rubber belts from chicago 2 cat in peoria,il this was in a 22' straight truck
Company also sent a cargo van to get another sandwich bag it had small box of bearings going same place