When I pulled a dump trailer, I hauled the semi-solid version.:thumbsup:

 

I deadheaded to Pascagoula MS from Orange Tx for a load of 3, 35 gallon lever-pak drums, filled with used Tyvec garments and latex gloves. Each drum weighed about 36 pounds. That was the entire load. Had to run poison placards because of the chemicals on the gloves and garments. Hauled them to an incinerator in Grafton OH, then deadheaded back to Orange TX.

 

In the 70's used to take loaded trailers from vegas to yucca flats test site. 10'wide 16'long 7' tall and very heavy. No idea what it was but had DOE escorts both ways.

 

Say...Do they still make things go "BOOM" deep in the ground there???

I'm wondering....did you go there in 79, 80 & 81???

I went there a hand full of times...we pumped cement on top of some things that were put in the ground, on top of those things that went boom. Wondering now if I saw you there.

 

I took this from Richmond,BC to Gurnee,IL. It was part of a new waterpark close to 6 flags north of Chicago. I saw so many people pull up beside me on the road and take a picture and then carry on and give me a wave.

 

I was there thru the late 70"s. If you were pumping concrete i may have met you.
We had 3 rules when under a load
1 do not stop unless the escort gives the okay
2 if something/someone blocks your progress see rule 1
3 if something happens you will never know

Used to be a lot of protesters at the first checkpoint. Saw Martin Sheen there quite a few times.

 

I once pulled a load that was 1280 pounds total From South San Francisco to allentown pa the insured amount was 70 million found out it was some cancer drug from tree bark.

 

A load of "RAILROAD CROSSINGS" from CO to MD...
A load of sedative for the polar bears in Churchill, Canada...

 

I once pulled a load of Plastic flower flats outta toledo ohio to Dallas Tx , Via atlanta Ga! The Buyer located in Atlanta Ga had to count the flats before they could be shipped onto Dallas! Dont ask me who what where or why!!!!!!!!!! Took them 20 min in Atlanta to clear me for Dallas!!! Back before gogo juice was 4buck per gallon!!


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I'm not the only one on here to have hauled this, chris1 has hauled it too. The strangest load I ever hauled (did it a few times) was an entire load of frozen beef pizzle. That's the male member from a bull or steer. Apparently it's a delicasy in the far east. We used to haul it from Wisconsin to the bay area in California and from there it was shipped to Japan, China and Hong Kong.

My wife who at the time was working at the fuel desk at Burns Brothers (now TA) in Ft Bridger, WY before she ran away with me and became my wife 16 years ago asked what I was hauling. I went out to the truck, got a box out and took it back in. The girls opened it and after lots of blushing, giggling and laughing they decided to keep it. I often wondered if the chef in the kitchen took the strange looking sausage rolled up in the box in the freezer and used it as sausage in omlets.