How much can a standard Articulated lorry carry?
Discussion
Justin Cyder said:
A mate of mine had Microsoft & was involved in the Xbox primary distribution. One of his was stopped, the driver bashed over the head & the truck driven off. It was found a few miles away minus a couple of million quids worth of consoles.
Happened to one of the early PS2 deliveries as well, one of the local dealers had some to sell when i was at school, he had a bit of a big mouth so i think most of them ended up going to the local BiB when they visited him.As for the money on pallets. I worked at a foreign currency distributor for a few month when i was younger. You get used to seeing pallets of money, the only two that stopped me dead was a 1/2 full pallet of 500 Euro notes and a full pallet of $100. Everything else is just there to pick through and sort.
Tuvra said:
It got me thinking, whats do you think is the most valuable load carried on a standard UK Truck? Formula One team? Truck jammed full with Iphones? Sky Broadcasting truck? Do they carry gold/cash on artic lorries etc? Genuinely interested to hear some suggestions 
My vote goes on some classic race teams truck. Had a 12 ton race transporter next us us the other day at a circuit, and going by current auction prices had the thick end of 50mil in the back, over 4 cars 
Jimbo. said:
Vajazzle said:
I'll have to ask him but my old man used to do airfreight, and one of the contracts was with Pfizer. As far as I can recall you could only haul a couple of pallets at a time of Viagra because of the value.
Oh c'mon, people of PH. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere...GC8 said:
Jimbo. said:
Vajazzle said:
I'll have to ask him but my old man used to do airfreight, and one of the contracts was with Pfizer. As far as I can recall you could only haul a couple of pallets at a time of Viagra because of the value.
Oh c'mon, people of PH. There's got to be a joke in there somewhere...
iguana said:
Some of the higher end car transporters can have huge sums on board, I collected from Goodwood revival recently not big value cars in the current crazy pricing world of classic cars, but just under a million, however when a single 250gto is approx 25million+ now, a few of them & more regular 2- 3 million quid classics like a bugatti t35 or a 250 swb & maybe a gullwing or a Gt40 & its easy for a truck to have load nearing 100million.
We've had stuff delivered by Cars International on occasion, with their massive hydraulically lowering trailers, on one occasion the trailer had two veyrons, a Koenigsegg and an F50 on board, in addition to our Carrera GT.many years ago I was involved in the transport of Thrust SSC during the prep and transport out for taking the land speed record supersonic.
I guess that would be basically a 'priceless' load as it was a one off record breaker?
to make it really expensive, I recall us loading the trailer with Thrust SSC on it, into the back of an Antonov 124 cargo at Stanstead. Our Driver was a great guy, remember seeing him driving the chase fire truck on the actual record attempts :-)
We also moved a lot of jet engines, the most expensive of those were 16 milion dollars so fairly pricey too
I guess that would be basically a 'priceless' load as it was a one off record breaker?
to make it really expensive, I recall us loading the trailer with Thrust SSC on it, into the back of an Antonov 124 cargo at Stanstead. Our Driver was a great guy, remember seeing him driving the chase fire truck on the actual record attempts :-)
We also moved a lot of jet engines, the most expensive of those were 16 milion dollars so fairly pricey too
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