Smallest/lightest Load You Have Hauled?

In the realm of theoretical physics, if someone ever invents anti-gravity, think about the problem it would be to ship it around.

A friend of mine is a tanker driver. He hauls Helium and claims that they need extra weights just to keep the tanker on the ground.

He is pulling your leg. I was talking to a tanker driver where I picked up the 1400 pound load. He said he is at 78,000 when he hauls helium and argon.

I was talking to a tanker driver where I picked up the 1400 pound load. He said he is at 78,000 when he hauls helium and argon

Next time you see him, ask him what the tare weight of his empty trailer is. I’m guessing but probably in the neighborhood of 30,000 pounds. Very heavy because those gases are compressed, refrigerated, with all kinds of extra plumbing.

Done a couple "inner company transfers" aka someone in the main DC screwed up/miscounted.

1 pallet 20 cases. Frozen. (0) 2 pallets 14 cases. Cooler (+34) And so on.. none weighed more then 600 lbs and boy did I enjoy listening to that refer freeze the whole trailer for one pallet.

Smallest thing I've delivered from a 48ft van.

Yes, that's one miniscule vile of GM Touch-up Paint. Hazmat.

A friend of mine is a tanker driver. He hauls Helium and claims that they need extra weights just to keep the tanker on the ground.

He is pulling your leg. I was talking to a tanker driver where I picked up the 1400 pound load. He said he is at 78,000 when he hauls helium and argon.

Yeah - these gases are compressed in liquid form - and they are HEAVY in that form. A gallon of liquid helium weighs 1 pound.

So if a tanker holds 10K gallons - you're looking at 10K lbs of load (+/-).

OTOH - Party City is closing a number of stores (recently in the news), because of a global helium shortage.

Can you tell I'm bored to tears this morning...

Rick

Smallest store "delivery"?

1 freezer pallet with six, 1 quart containers of ice cream.

Yesterday I had to run 80 miles out of route to deliver 1 case, 3 1.5 qt tubs of ice cream. In my case it wasn't a mess up like you mentioned in another comment. This was the dispatchers not reviewing the loads before we bid on them. I ran a frozen load 181 miles with 10 stops. There was another truck taking fresh and frozen into that store with a total weight of only 26,000 pounds for his trailer. My only guess is it was above the threshold for cubes but somebody should've caught it. Surely they could've fit that on there somewhere. I've grown tired of making suggestions when things like this frequently happen to be told "that's how the computer routed it, we're not going to mess with it" that I just keep my mouth shut and do the work regardless how inefficient it may be. I'm not sure what we make on that case but retail if you sell each qt separate is about $16 total. It added about an hour and a half of drive time to run it there. I made $78 and they spent over $35 in diesel. Yet we receive messages weekly about needing to cut idling. Hmmmm.

Like I'd posted else where on here before, Got ya all beat LOL........That EMPTY trailer we took from San Antonio TX, 1200 miles to Miami FL. THEN, NO trailer, 1200 miles BACK to San Antonio hahaha Lots of fuel for a 2,400 mile run for an "AIR" delivery

I once picked up an auxiliary fuel tank for an F15 fighter jet in northern California going to Florida on a flatbed. 700 pounds. I got a lot of looks from passerby and even had one truck driver at a Love's ask me if it was a bomb

A few weeks ago I hauled a full trailer of frames for cat generators from sc to tx. Total weight was 12,600 lbs.