What's the most valuable cargo (money wise) you've hauled?

A painting from a gallery in Milan back to Sotheby’s in London.
Insurance documents declared value at £33m and I had and unmarked Carabinieri ■■■■■■ up to and through the Mont Blanc.

yourhavingalarf:
Drugs…

Or rather pharmacueticals from Madrid to Rome.

One Euro pallet with 10 little boxes of what ever it was, inside a tri-axle fridge trailer.

Probably Oxycontin, same as I used to take from Cambridge to Helsinki. It’s an opiate used mainly to treat cancer patients. A full Euro pallet is valued at £7 million.

Fully freighted tilt with top notch perfumes/aftershave ect circa 900K eur worth from Nice to Madrid onto Marbella, around 3 years ago. Mostly its relatively lowish value polished stone/ marble now…

Casper68:

blue estate:

Casper68:
Years ago, I drove for Brinks-Mat out of the famous Heathrow site. The most expensive load I carried was £250 million worth of gold.
Can anyone beat that?

Was that a one day job

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Yes, not our normal thing.the gold came from Russia and was part of their gold reserves. We had three trucks each carrying £250 million with three crew members on board (crew leader, driver and guard). Each truck had an armed police ■■■■■■ and it was taken to the Bank of England. This happened in the early 90s.

You would think they’d be more careful after the 80’s robbery :laughing:

14 pallets of competition grade shotgun shells, worth 1.3 million. Used to take metal ready for stamping at Nissan in Sunderland, that was worth almost a million per trailer.

Alot of very expensive vehicles over the years…2 x Bugatti royales being up there price wise and an employee from the french museum riding shotgun in each truck…also the insurance company stipulated we weren’t allowed to travel on the same ferry.
Also the ex fangio merc that sold for 29mil [emoji50][emoji50]

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A load of Waitrose groceries to Portsmouth to go out to the Caribbean
those expats still want British bog rolls gravy granules marmite etc and with the added waitrose label on
priceless

A pallet of red bull… :blush: :blush: :blush:

truckyboy:
I remember in the 60`s me and two other drivers were sent to sheerness to pick up currency being returned from abroad…we were told that we would be followed to the mint, and to stop for no one…but no other details were given…one of the drivers phoned 999 en route to tell them some dodgy characters were following us, and we had valuable loads on…ha ha think they were stopped…but we never knew how much our loads were worth though.

How did he manage to do that without the dodgy characters beating him over the head as he fed 2p’s into the phone box? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

DadsRetired:

truckyboy:
I remember in the 60`s me and two other drivers were sent to sheerness to pick up currency being returned from abroad…we were told that we would be followed to the mint, and to stop for no one…but no other details were given…one of the drivers phoned 999 en route to tell them some dodgy characters were following us, and we had valuable loads on…ha ha think they were stopped…but we never knew how much our loads were worth though.

How did he manage to do that without the dodgy characters beating him over the head as he fed 2p’s into the phone box? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

No 2p pieces in the 1960s. Three of these then push button A on answer. :wink:

DadsRetired:

truckyboy:
I remember in the 60`s me and two other drivers were sent to sheerness to pick up currency being returned from abroad…we were told that we would be followed to the mint, and to stop for no one…but no other details were given…one of the drivers phoned 999 en route to tell them some dodgy characters were following us, and we had valuable loads on…ha ha think they were stopped…but we never knew how much our loads were worth though.

How did he manage to do that without the dodgy characters beating him over the head as he fed 2p’s into the phone box? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

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Roll of paper from a plant near Newbury

They would put the watermark into the paper ready for printing bank notes

Once printed it was worth millions.

Use to do a lot of airbus stuff in and out of Filton a lot of it being 1 off prototype
1 6ft x1ft x1ft box contained something to do with the landing gear of the A380, as a one off piece they reckoned it was about £450 m . I dunno .

DadsRetired:

truckyboy:
I remember in the 60`s me and two other drivers were sent to sheerness to pick up currency being returned from abroad…we were told that we would be followed to the mint, and to stop for no one…but no other details were given…one of the drivers phoned 999 en route to tell them some dodgy characters were following us, and we had valuable loads on…ha ha think they were stopped…but we never knew how much our loads were worth though.

How did he manage to do that without the dodgy characters beating him over the head as he fed 2p’s into the phone box? :open_mouth: :open_mouth: :open_mouth:

Was there 2p coins about in the 60’s and I thought the old phone boxes took 4 old pennies. Jus sayin like … :slight_smile:

A Trident nuclear warhead approx 30million.

Driving 1/2 mile in front of the decoy armoured convoy. To the naked eye it just looked like a car and caravan.
Had an SBS soldier armed to the teeth and dressed in drag in the passenger seat and a couple of midget paratroopers in the back, we all looked like auditionees for a dodgy ■■■■ flick.

All was going great till I cut a truck up on the A9.

28 tonne of platinum granules from Enfield to Lübeck,Germany.Was worth £1.25million.

was when we pulled into the cafe on the old sheerness road harry…to regroup + toilet stop…that taut of ferdys looks like a tilt mate…■■ but a great load.

8 x 200kg drums of ecstasy pills from a production plant hidden on a farm near Diss, to an incinerator in Ellesmere Port, so several £million at early 90s street prices.

Circuit breaker for a substation. Only about 1/4 million. Usually just move plant or access machines so was way over anything else Ive loaded. Was a bit nervous having to crane it on and off once i found out the value.

I think some of the medical trailers we move are worth a few bob, I think they start at about 1.5million for the breast screeners and then things escalate a bit when you add MRI, CT scanners etc.

lager and Guinness for Tesco,well it was valuable to me when it went off the tailift onto the ground and all started spilling out,felt like saying to the staff,QUICK GET SOME GLASSES,lol