lightest full truck ever
August 7th, 2007 by smidge
I’ve dreamed about it for years. I’ve probably joked about it with all of my hauling partners. In our darkest hours, in the middle of the hardest jobs, we’ve all longed for it. And finally, last week, it came…
That is a picture taken from the top of a truck loaded entirely with styrofoam. The lightest full load I’ve ever hauled.
I didn’t say the easiest. We had to throw off some of the wood that had been anchoring the pile of 8 x 4 foot sheets to the ground. And I got stung in the cheek by one of the bees that had been nesting in it. In my dreams it was always a single cube of styrofoam cut to the exact dimensions of our trucks, so I could just lift it and load the truck full in one fell swoop. But this was close enough. Now I can say that I’ve done it.
i really like the image of a perfectly cut block of foam.
what about a perfectly sized marshmallow? or, a giant bag of air?
what did the guys at the dump say when you weighed in?
my guess:
“we’ve got a bunch of tatertots with a truck full of foam over here”
Because of a misunderstanding between our company and the Drop-off, combined with a busy schedule, I couldn’t recycle the styrofoam. Weighmaster Fred doesn’t even look at the weights of the trucks that hurry through, and I was too stressed about the non-recycling situation to say anything colorful to him. And the loader/dozer operators just shoveled and scooped as usual.