I saw an Orion capsule in 2011

When I was stationed at MCAS EL Toro, CA back in the 90's I got a call from the Orange County Sheriff's Bomb Squad. They said they had a Torpedo at a salvage yard in Long Beach. So I grabbed the response van, a 3/4 ton Dodge cargo van and drove to the salvage yard. I was met at the entrance by the Bomb Squad Sgt and given directions to where it was located. As I was driving to it, I was thinking what would it be this time... A hot water heater, nope... a gas bottle, nope...

I drove around the corner and in the middle of two piles of scrap the size of college football stadiums was... a big assed, all brass torpedo! I'm like WTF!!! I looked it over and figured out that the warhead and guidance sections were missing and the front and rear were bolted together. So I had the Bomb Squad and Fire Fighters help me load it in the van (it weighed close to a ton and I ended up with about 6 feet of it hanging out the back doors) and drove it back to the EOD Shop via the 110 and 405.

The next week, we took it apart and faxed pictures of it to Keyport, WA to get a positive ID on it. Luckily it turned out to be a Mk 48 Mod 0, which was battery powered and not OTTO Fuel II.

We put it back together, polished it up and built a display stand to put it on in the shop.

It looked like this one below with the middle section missing.



BTW, this was on Thanksgiving day!

Sounds familiar.

I know guys who got Army loads like that where all that was loaded was an envelope stapled to plywood crush wall in the nose of the trailer.  All four drivers followed their assigned routes, got to their destination at the same time, got unloaded and had to park their rigs with the trailer doors open for 24 hours while the drivers were put up in billeting with free meals and when they got back to their trucks they were all handed envelopes containing a certain amount of cash.

Also heard similar stories about loads for the Navy, but none for the AF or Marines.  The Navy loads had armed Marine escorts in SUVs that stayed with the trucks all the way from California to New London, CT.  Guess sensitive equipment going to the submarine factory is something they get absolutely paranoid about.

I'll bet that's one of Jacques Littlefields collection, that's been auctioned off.



I was working in Oxnard when those came in at the port...lots of hilarity with those.



especially since they were semi-live units BATF was not impressed



 

That rig's owner is a very good guy.  He carries a BBQ grill in his equipment box and if the weather is good at the end of the day he sets up on the trailer and grills up a bunch of burgers and hotdogs and everybody parked around his rig at the truckstop is invited to the cookout.  A nice break from the usual routine.

Friends of mine were were hauling some FBI load from somewhere up north to TX. No escort or anything but were under strict orders that it remain a sealed load at all times and someone must be with the truck at all times.
Well they make it to OK and they're sitting in construction traffic when someone in an S-10 pickup decides to commit suicide by rear ending them doing about 85. Buried that pickup to the tandems and did some damage to the trailer. OK state troopers insisted on opening the trailer up to make so chemicals had spilled or anything. Friend is a pretty stout German feller and he stood between them and the trailer doors while she ran to the truck to get the FBI contacts business card. Troopers made a quick phone call and they were instructed to meet with some local FBI agents in the middle of nowhere, some dirt lot surrounded by fields. Made em sit in the truck while they checked the load and resealed the trailer and sent them on there way.
Pulled into some unmarked warehouse in TX and sat in the truck till they were unloaded. Never did have a clue what they were hauling.

Strangest thing I've personally seen was a B1 bomber minus it's wings. They were hauling it from AZ up here to Seattle for Boeing to do some tests or studies on. It was all wrapped up but it was obvious what it was. It was all over the news that it was coming and I'd forgotten about it until I drove past the scales that day and saw it setting there for the day. Can't imagine the transportation costs with all the oversize load permits and escorts between here and AZ.

Sgt York ADA gun on a flatbed trailer

Most likely evidence.. Could have been anything from the entire contents of an office or house or a car or something.... Drugs would have had an escort.

The chain of custody must be maintained and if anyone breaks the seal on the doors without the right people around that evidence can be thrown out.

I drive 40 East to Knoxville every day. I see a lot of wind turbine parts, blades etc in the summer time. It would be badass to see that missile launcher at the gun show this weekend lol

I remember that. They parked at universityfor a day or two. It was sometime after 2008.

A Bradley IFV on a flatbed painted in Dessert Tan.  It was headed towards a National Guard base.

I haven't seen anything especially weird, but I once saw an F-650 pulling an F-650 pulling an F-750, that was pretty damn cool. And once I saw a bradley with no barrel for its chaingun being towed on a flatbed.

Not weird, really, just cool.

I was around 10 year old when we saw the majority of an decommissioned SR71 Black Bird on a flat bed trailer. It was at a truck stop and a crowd was forming around it, so it was even better then just passing it on the highway.

Kinda cool,

Back during Iraqi Freedom, I would see at least 3 flatbeds a day with brand new Bradleys going somewhere.Also alot of hummers. I did see a car carrier full of brand new 2015 Corvettes wrapped in white plastic and previous gen. Grand Sport models.

a wired frame 20 ft trailer with thousands of stacked, dried whitetail deer hides being pulled by a truck on I44 in Tulsa at night.  I had a pic on my phone at one time.