I've been driving 18 wheelers for about 15 years now. I'm also an avid plastic model builder in my spare time ( which I don't get enough of ). Most of the freight I haul is pretty mundane boring stuff. Canned goods, paper ( lots of paper ), furniture etc. Anyway, I was in Chicago this week picking up a load coming back home to the Dallas/Ft.Worth area. When I was talking to dispatch and saw the name of the shipper I said to myself " Holy cow , I know this company ! ". For security reasons I will not give the name ... but this is a model company you all know very well. And I took it to a model dealer you all know very well also. It was a whole load ( 26 pallets ) of a ship model soon to be released. Around 1200 kits in all ! I was talking to the lady who unloaded the truck and I told her I estimated the cost of all the kits I had on-board was around $100,000. She smiled and said " yup, that's about right ".
" If you bought it ... a truck brought it "
Think of me when you guys/gals get your Christmas goodies under the tree this year. =]
Chris