Got a shock today when collecting some wooden crates for marine work when the guy told me the contents of each crate were worth £330,000 each and I’ve got a few of them on. I don’t even know what they are - just that they go on ships and for the size of the crates I’d be against paying 330k for the contents lol
Whats the most expensive thing you’ve carried?
Aa long as theres no white powder or brown putty like material in there then you’re fine. 
Wonder if they told the company as presumably it would need insurance.
Regularly loaded boxes out of Royal Mint in Llanwhatsyerface with anything upto £ 6 mill in foreign currency. Always told to go direct to dock - yeah right 
Had load of 3 cars worth £30m, first time with a transporter with moving decks, had to load and unload them 4 times that day, each time moving the decks. I don’t know who was more relieved when I finished the job with all cars intact, me or the bloke I was working for who had to up the insurance for the day. 
There’s been several thread on this subject over the years, the loads vary from high value electronics, alcohol, and aircraft engines
peirre:
There’s been several thread on this subject over the years, the loads vary from high value electronics, alcohol, and aircraft engines
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id think limey phil holds the record sofar…
I once went someware collected 10 crates going abroad each crate had a vintage motorbike in them mostly triumphs .
Anyway rang work.told em won’t be back in time need night out. They said we know what you have on but we’re not paying parking at services etc .
Id of thought the of made an exception for once.
Wonder why there stand though if get robbed in a laybe. Does insurance not stipulate need be parked someware safe and secure
Cigarettes and tobacco products
gazsa401:
Cigarettes and tobacco products
Vintage champagne, and malt whiskey for me.
Second hand clothing to euroland
4 aircraft engines (GR4 tornado) at a supposed half a million a piece!
jakethesnake:
4 aircraft engines (GR4 tornado) at a supposed half a million a piece!
Would like to see that load… 
Mare and foal. Foal was worth £4m I was told.
Didn’t stop her being a stroppy ■■■■■ who wouldn’t load. Me and the groom had to carry her up the ramp while mum had a hissy fit in the lorry
Undrawn copper cable on large pallets that I could only fit 4 on [emoji47]
I didn’t night out with that on
Scrap value was 30k a pallet
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jakethesnake:
4 aircraft engines (GR4 tornado) at a supposed half a million a piece!
Thought to they’d be worth more than that, carried engines for the KC135 tanker and they told us they were worth over $5m a piece, only carried one at a time though.
Even the prop for a Hercules was supposed to be $600k at least that what we were told when a forklift driver dropped one when unloading it.
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jakethesnake:
4 aircraft engines (GR4 tornado) at a supposed half a million a piece!Would like to see that load…
Why would you like to see it? Is there something you don’t understand? Just say and I will explain.
Had this 737 engine on a few weeks ago, not sure it was worth much due to it being knackered and going back to America. 
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muckles:
jakethesnake:
4 aircraft engines (GR4 tornado) at a supposed half a million a piece!Thought to they’d be worth more than that, carried engines for the KC135 tanker and they told us they were worth over $5m a piece, only carried one at a time though.
Even the prop for a Hercules was supposed to be $600k at least that what we were told when a forklift driver dropped one when unloading it.
Yes you could be right, that’s why I said supposed as it was a while ago and my memory of the value may have been wrong. Maybe it was a million a piece that I was told.
Picked up an engine for a A380 Airbus from Derby to take down to Toulouse which was said to be valued at £9 million but don’t know how true that is …
Lots of stuff .
11 merc F1 engines @ £1.5m each + 11 kers systems and controllers @ £ 150000 each .
14 pallets of hi-tech mobiles @ £4 m per pallet ( escorted by ex gurkha security officers )
Control systems for Sky satellite TV transmission systems £ 30m +
Prototype mobile radar system £ ? Was told not to ask .
Various bits for new aircraft costing many millions .
Lumps of scientific equipment worth £750k each .
Vintage wine for a famous auction house, the totals end up at eye watering numbers if a bottle is £20k each and 6 to a case and you have pallets of the stuff on board .
Pharmaceutical products can be hugely valuable. A few million pills at £25- £70 each soon adds up and only a couple of pallets puts it into hundreds of millions .
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