I once had a satellite I was told to be careful as it was worth a lot of money cant remember how much but I think it was just short of the million mark
When I was courier-ing, I had a van full of football mascot costumes that I had to take to the horse racecourse where they do the annual football mascot race!
In the early ninetys loaded a full step frame tilt in Greece with tampax for Johnson and johnson in Basingstoke trouble was the roof had had a repair done to it which must have lifted because when i got to the drop the trailer was like a pregnant elephant and weighed about 25 ton it took them 2 days to unload it and reject half the load which they put straight into skips.
Not really a “strange” load as such but maybe in the back of a tilt it would be classed as one.
This was stolen from Modena area and recovered in the UK, here I am delivering it back to a dealers in Modena area in the tilt. Must have cost someone a fortune because it was the only thing in the trailer and It was double manned down there!!
Funniest thing was that the boss couldn’t work out how we managed to use nearly as much diesel taking that down there as we did pulling (then) 38 tonne.!!!
Neither could I…weird!! 
As an owner/driver in the early 1980s I got a job through Mason Bros of Rotherham to transport a pit wheel from Needhams in Barnsley to Glasshoughton Colliery. The wheel was in two halves and althought it only weighed about 4 tons it was 16 feet wide and as such needed a police ■■■■■■ and a driver’s mate.
Mason’s provided Wayne, their yard boy at the time and the police ■■■■■■ was already booked, so I went to Barnsley and loaded the wheel on a 36 foot flat trailer. When the police ■■■■■■ arrived he was quite brusque and said it was near the end of his shift so he wanted to “make progress”. He said you follow me to the M1 then you go in front and I’ll follow, if you want to overtake use all 3 lanes and I’ll keep traffic back so you can, so we set off up to the Dodworth junction from Sheffield Road. There are trees every so often on the pavement edge up this road and the police car was off like the clappers - I had a hard time trying to keep up what with weaving around the trees and parked cars etc, but when we joined the motorway I thought ‘now it’s my turn’. The Scammell Crusader I had had a 280 Rolls engine and with only 4 tons on board it could really fly, so I gave it some welly down the hill and reached over 70mph in places - the copper was as good as his word and sat on my rear offside with his blue lights flashing as i roared up the M1 overtaking cars etc in the outside lane with the police chasing me! It was fantastic (poor old Wayne was terrified though) - I’m sure the other motorists thought the police were chasing me! When we arrived at the colliery I pulled into the yard and the copper spun round and went, never saw him again.
Imagine my delight when after delivering to Adsa Glasshoughton last week I spotted my pit wheel again:
A couple of pics with a different wheel on board:
DieselDemon:
collect pallets of lard from Bamford Bros, Surrey docks. The lard was palletised and boxed…
When Bamfords closed we had the job to move all the machinery out, I have never let let lard in my house since, just pulling the conveyors out we disturbed literally hundreds of rats, and the grime and sludge on everything was enough for me to say I would never touch lard again…
the scary thing is all the machinery went to Parker Packing at Surrey docks for export to god knows where and is probably still in use packing lard for import to the UK
i moved an Indian elephant once not a real one mind but a full size fibre-glass elephant from an Indian restaurant up near York way . had to bolt it on to the back of my 7.5 t as we couldn’t rope/strap it coz the glass was very thin so threw a couple over it to look good . had people taking photos hanging out of their car windows even the old bill did a double take then started to laugh as the passed. we had to drop it back to a different site to where we picked it up from . the food was excellent as the restaurants were top notch and very pricey as I recall
when i was married to my first wife I took her to lidl’s depot in weston-super-mare and she was strange 
stevecook:
As an owner/driver in the early 1980s I got a job through Mason Bros of Rotherham to transport a pit wheel from Needhams in Barnsley to Glasshoughton Colliery. The wheel was in two halves and althought it only weighed about 4 tons it was 16 feet wide and as such needed a police ■■■■■■ and a driver’s mate.
Mason’s provided Wayne, their yard boy at the time and the police ■■■■■■ was already booked, so I went to Barnsley and loaded the wheel on a 36 foot flat trailer. When the police ■■■■■■ arrived he was quite brusque and said it was near the end of his shift so he wanted to “make progress”. He said you follow me to the M1 then you go in front and I’ll follow, if you want to overtake use all 3 lanes and I’ll keep traffic back so you can, so we set off up to the Dodworth junction from Sheffield Road. There are trees every so often on the pavement edge up this road and the police car was off like the clappers - I had a hard time trying to keep up what with weaving around the trees and parked cars etc, but when we joined the motorway I thought ‘now it’s my turn’. The Scammell Crusader I had had a 280 Rolls engine and with only 4 tons on board it could really fly, so I gave it some welly down the hill and reached over 70mph in places - the copper was as good as his word and sat on my rear offside with his blue lights flashing as i roared up the M1 overtaking cars etc in the outside lane with the police chasing me! It was fantastic (poor old Wayne was terrified though) - I’m sure the other motorists thought the police were chasing me! When we arrived at the colliery I pulled into the yard and the copper spun round and went, never saw him again.
Imagine my delight when after delivering to Adsa Glasshoughton last week I spotted my pit wheel again:
A couple of pics with a different wheel on board:
Is that where it fell off pops…hee-hee
A few months ago, i loaded palm trees (fake 1s) from a place in lyon, and then i was told to collect some offce furniture which consisted of 4 desks 4 chairs and a jacquisy (spelt wrong)… this is all fine and not that unusual, but it was on our flat, and when it wasnt sheeted it looked really weird lol!!
Kangaroo meat in plastic bags on pallets from out near Longreach to Melbourne in approximately 40 degree heat! And yes, it was in a freezer that was struggling to beat the heat!
It was about 35 years ago and I still remember the smell and how long it took to get it out of the freezer once I’d tipped!
One of the stranger ones I did was a submarine simulator to a NATO base in Bergen. I guess they use it to train people who don’t like deep water! 
telescopic A- frame for launching subsea R.O.V,s of subsea construction vessels.
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mark
Coffeeholic:
One of the stranger ones I did was a submarine simulator to a NATO base in Bergen. I guess they use it to train people who don’t like deep water!
hello coffeeholic
we had a driver at RTH ex submariner who was seasick with the slightest swell on the ferrys, he was on this trip which the photo was taken from genoa to scicily never seen him much for 2 days and it was flat calm.
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mark
Frozen strips of human skin! Had to collect them from Coventry Airport @ 2am & deliver to hospital burns units.
Thank God they were very well packaged. I shudder to think what the contents of the packages actually looked like. With my luck, if I’d been in the unfortunate position of needing one, I’d wake up to find a mis-spelt tattoo!
A box with 2 pigeons 
animal pelts from tilbury to workington in the heat of summer,you could smell it twenty feet from the trailer.
hello bigmac
we used to load the pelts out of galashiels and jedburgh for solofra naples in italy on flat beds the trl and the sheets did not last long with all the salt that was running of the pallets , and you could smell solofra 10km before you got to it in the summer.
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