Doing local courier in York county pa in the 90's took a manilla envelope with a few rubber seals, for random testing(they just received the shipment) From Peach Bottom atomic power plant in York County to Philadelphia for testing.
If we're voting, LOS' art load wins, no question - it doesn't get any stranger than that one.
[Though I really liked the frozen carrot, lol]
My strangest load was an aircraft nose cone.
Some piece of satellite equipment hot off the shuttle
One skid of empty chewing gum wrappers
One cooler with two mason jars full of wastewater for testing
3 Books of Marriage Records for "Colored People" from the 1890's
Edit: Almost forgot - 3 barrels of Crown Royal Special Reserve. Never left the gate with that one (we can't haul alcohol), but man, did the truck smell good for days after that one. The barrels were leaking a tad.
Leggo life size figures from legoland carlsbad ca to the old busch gardens in wintrhaven fl then back to carlsbad ca! We had darth vader on board "the thinker" thomas the train, lady firefighter, a raptor dinosaur, the white house (complete with the lego obamas, they did a better job than the real ones!)
When I first started in my trucking career I worked for Werner enterprise and I hauled a refer trailer with cadavers in it to UCLA for new medical examiners to study. Perhaps I should be an ME the work is always steady
Herbie Hancock's band equipment from Seattle to his 70th birthday party in LA . We spent day at Seattle's zoo and attended the evening concert prior to loading.
Scoobie Doo's Van and vehicles from Cars for Disney's Ice Shows.
Delivered a 16 million dollar piece of equipment tonite to a research facility.
But strangest of all,
I've hauled my brother,Snake,many places. And believe me,you don't get any stranger than my brother Snake.
Disaster drill training equipment. We had a full load of "dead bodies and body parts". We were hoping some DOT officer would ask us to open up the doors.