# What strange cargo have you driven behind? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 18, 2014, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428 "2014-07-18T04:59:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/41 "2014-07-21T15:51:01Z")
> [@Sodalite](#): > > A semi hauling caskets for the Batesville Casket Co. There was a message on the back doors: "Please drive safely, Heaven can wait. Seen it; love it. Saw a wreck on 90 once where a semi hauling cookies clipped a milk tanker. That is still the absolute best one I’ve seen in my life. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/42 "2014-07-21T16:17:17Z")
Somewhere around here is a “diving pigs” attraction of the kind you see at small fairs. One day I’m driving along and wind up behind a truck with an open bed that is completely full of bags of bread and other baked goods. On the truck was the name of the farm that had the pigs. So I guess you feed diving pigs old bread. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/43 "2014-07-21T18:36:03Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Ah. I got really bothered one time as I was slowly passed by a big flatbed hauling chickens. Not by the smell, but I made eye contact with one of the chickens while we were waiting at a traffic light. For some reason, I flashed on the trains the SS used to transport Jews to the extermination camps. It took me about an hour to recover from that. I always liked [this poem by Jane Mead](http://flyingrat42.blogspot.com/2008/06/passing-truck-full-of-chickens-at-night.html) about passing a chicken truck. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/44 "2014-07-21T19:13:15Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > A submarine. > > In the middle of Utah. It sounds weird, but the Navy’s acoustic proving ground for subs is in [Lake Pend Oreille](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Pend_Oreille) Idaho, so it was probably headed there. ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/45 "2014-07-21T20:28:26Z")
Not strange, but rare: a Tucker 48. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/46 "2014-07-22T03:12:51Z")
> [@brossa](#): > > A tanker truck with signage on the rear that said: > > PIG BLOOD > > NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION > > Similar to this: [http://pikdit.com/i/just-a-tanker-truck-filled-with-pork-blood-not-intended-for-human-food/](http://pikdit.com/i/just-a-tanker-truck-filled-with-pork-blood-not-intended-for-human-food/) Congealed pig blood is a popular ingredient in a lot of Thai food. That’s one of the many items that probably doesn’t make it onto the menu of those upscale Thai eateries in the West. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/47 "2014-07-22T03:48:43Z")
What was that movie in the 80’s about the guy that gets turned into a vampire? He ends up going to the Butcher’s shop where he learns that Pigs Blood comes in six-packs. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/48 "2014-07-22T20:42:06Z")
Eons ago, I shared a city street with a full size diesel locomotive, which was on an enormous flatbed truck. Apparently, the only way to get it from one set of tracks to another was by city streets, and there wasn’t a convenient (and much wider) highway to use. ---
**Author:** ![runningdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@runningdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/runningdude)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2014, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/49 "2014-07-22T23:46:36Z")
I once drove past pieces of a nuclear power plant being loaded onto a train, who’s tracks were right next to the road. Did not drive behind the delivery trucks though. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2014, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/50 "2014-07-23T13:12:07Z")
A camel in a Toyota pick up truck A natural gas separator .( it was huge) ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/51 "2014-07-24T02:35:11Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Somewhere around here is a “diving pigs” attraction of the kind you see at small fairs. One day I’m driving along and wind up behind a truck with an open bed that is completely full of bags of bread and other baked goods. On the truck was the name of the farm that had the pigs. So I guess you feed diving pigs old bread. I recall an episode of “Undercover Boss” featuring a company that made bread, rolls, etc. They said that damaged, squished, and otherwise unsalable bread is saved for a nearby hog farm. Strangest, and most unpleasant, cargo I’ve ever been behind was a tanker full of liquid manure to be sprayed as fertilizer. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2014, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428/52 "2014-07-24T05:25:30Z")
Once I was behind a tank truck carrying molten sulfur. Imagine what would happen if it leaked! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-strange-cargo-have-you-driven-behind/693428.md?page=2)