take it from me its true back in the 80ties regular job sometimes heathrow sumtimes gatwick even glasgow on one occasion.
cieranc:
the maoster:
Challenger tank. Dropped one over onto its roof before, but that’s a story for another time.Ba ha ha, where was this? Only reason I ask is that I’ve picked one up, after a driver sort of lost it off a trailer
Redmire?
T’was next to a field near the old Commie border in West Germany. I could tell you exactly where but then I’d have to … 
Surprises me you having to pick one up, times may have changed since then but we always, without fail used to self recover.
DannyDoncaster:
Pick up pallets of Nurofen alot 10 x packs in a case 750 cases on a pallet, 52 pallets on a load, roughly 390000 packets of tablets at say £4 a pack so roughly £1.6m of tablets.
Your missus can’t use the headache excuse, then?
I used to pick up “20mm gold flint” out of Southampton docks, does that count?
In three runs in one day I shifted 150,000 cans of Carlsburg Export.
Ive also done a full load of LG TVs.
Probably the most (potentially) expensive load though was a full load of engines for recon. There were a few V8s in there!