Used to do a lot of pharmaceuticals and cigarettes, used to run with an ■■■■■■ with both
mezzzz1211:
my daughter was with me for two weeks
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Apart from 4 Ferraris I suppose the chemicals I have carried have been high value, although now a common or garden petrol tanker driver with 36000 litres of squirt will come close.
the big un:
The most expensive thing i ever handle was a mamouths tusk from Freeland near Oxford to the Baribcan in London.Me being young and naive ask the usual how much is it worth simple answer priceless if you break it leave the country said my boss
How much do you think a still-wrapped Egyptian Mummy is worth? 
There are more mummies in storage than there are in museums in this country.
Anyone who’s driven a private ambulance black van might already be acquainted with someone who was dead a thousand years before Julius Caesar got stabbed! 
skell790:
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Early 90’s I was on a job pulling full loads of b+h cigs each trailer was valued about 1.5 million broke down once fully loaded 3 police cars there in no time plus we had to carry a sign in cab if the police tried to pull us the sign said high value load I will follow you to the nearest police station .‘I recognise you as a police officer…’ etc
You didn’t happen to work for Freightliner, by any chance?
No sorry I worked for the old BRS in those days
Sir +:
I thought I was doing quite well with 20 odd tons of Bailey’s. Also to the doors with Dell PCs/peripherals - sometimes security from Holyhead to Germany,sometimes not.No idea of value,but wouldn’t want to pay out if they got ‘lost’.Billybigrig-where are you? Couldn’t put one of your loads on the back of a Transit pickup
Did you work for Walsh western?
“Boeing” stands for “Bits Of Engine In Numerous Gardens”
Boeing don’t make engines, the engines on Boeing aircraft are Rolls Royce, Pratt and Witney or General Electric the customer ie: Virgin decides what make they want when they order the aircraft.
I used to carry a load of fresh air …
Pretty valuable if your drowning 
I too have delivered airplane engines out of Ceva at Castle Donnington. Bolted on huge frames and delivered right into KLM hangars at Schipol. Also gas turbines for Centrax valued at £1m each. Even in my little van!
Landing legs for an Airbus
to Toulouse and Hamburg
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oh by the way i think the most valueable part of the load is myself the driver
Used to take scrap lead down to Welwyn garden city from Glasgow. Probably write high value for a tipper!
26 pallets of malt whiskey is quite common in my crap falling to pieces chipliner!
kr79:
Sir +:
I thought I was doing quite well with 20 odd tons of Bailey’s. Also to the doors with Dell PCs/peripherals - sometimes security from Holyhead to Germany,sometimes not.No idea of value,but wouldn’t want to pay out if they got ‘lost’.Billybigrig-where are you? Couldn’t put one of your loads on the back of a Transit pickupDid you work for Walsh western?
No. I was with a subby who did some work for CMF and quite a bit for Woodside.Irish computer job’s long gone now,though (as you probably know).
Harry Monk:
Derf:
Phone call from Agent coming down Jubilee way with a second hand 747 engine for Schipol one day;
“Ah Derf, don’t forget you have to go into the western docks and clear customs before you ship out…”
me: “it’s going to Schipol, what’s all this about T-forms?”
agent: “It’s going on an onward flight to Malaysia, anyway all aircraft parts go on T-forms. If they ask, I’ve told them it’s only valued at £700k, that way I don’t get stung for export duty if it goes ■■■■ up.”
me; “only 700k?? what’s it really worth?”
Agent; “ummm… around £7.5 million!”That was the steadiest I ever went around the roundabout at the bottom.
I’ve done a lot of aircraft engines, and it’s fascinating stuff.
An airline, such as Virgin for example, own their aircraft, but they don’t own the engines, they lease them. When an engine is due for a service, it isn’t serviced in situ, they take it out of the plane and slot a newly serviced engine in to save downtime- they are only held in with a couple of pins. Then the old engine goes back to the UK factory for service.
Before a newly serviced engine is fitted to a plane, they put it on a test rig at the airport where it is to be fitted and run it on full throttle for 8 hours, then take measurements and do checks etc.
I once took one to Bratislava, in Slovakia and when I got there they said “Park over there, we’re running one on the rig at the moment, yours is only here as a back-up in case that one fails the test”.
Eight hours later they came up to me and said “That engine passed the test, you can take yours back”. So I went all the way to Slovakia and back and never even opened the curtains.
747’s can or at least could ferry a fifth engine under the wing.
In fact quite a few airliners can carry a spare. This one’s quite good
Only just recently took a Eupopean Typhoon fuselage, then a second load consisting of its wings, tail fin and required tooling for its assembly…loads of money!
Even a European one!
i collected some computer cabinets, and we had to get extra insurance.
it was well over £1000000 for what were nothing more than flimsy metal boxes. so off they went to ireland, constant phone calls checking on my progress. then the following week i took them back to be scrapped. they were the wrong size.
With the price off fuel , a tanker of petrol or diesel must be up there lol
…or a tankfull?
Surviving members of the Dam Busters in a mini bus.
I used to do a lot of jobs carrying wine. Pretty ordinary stuff, a pallet or so to clubs or whatever. One day I saw all my delivery addresses were big country houses. Turns out we’d got the contract to transport rare wines bought via auction, the boss had been told not to tell us.
All the paperwork had the values etc on. I delivered one box of 8 bottles, worth £127,000 I was entirely full that day with pallets. On break me and the drivers mate worked out the average value per bottle was about £4k per bottle, 12 bottles per box and 5 boxes per pallet. About £240k per pallet. We had 13 pallets on that day.
We mentioned the value to the boss when we got back, the next day we were told we’d handed that contract back as they’d suddenly realised the insurance wouldn’t cover it!