Weird things on the back of trucks

Updated Sat 17th Nov, 2004:

This is an update / merging of some old posts which I’ve deleted and replaced with this one.

I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. A genuine list of things I’ve seen sat on the back of trucks on the motorways of Great Britain. They may not be massively odd – some more common than when I originally saw them – but the kind of thing you drive past then go “did I really just see that?”

• A sodding huge propeller, possibly off the back of a boat (likely also of “sodding huge” size)
• Half a house
• A boat. Not a little one. A huge, big house-on-water job with other boats hanging off it
• About 200 shopping trolleys
• A dozen golf karts
• The cabs off another 6 trucks
• Another truck
• Something that looked like the Statue of Liberty on it’s back, covered in tarpaulin that can’t have scraped by more than an inch below the bridge I was on at the time
• A brand new Ferrari… on the back of a breakdown truck. OK, not weird, but still strangely satisfying
• Not on the back of a truck as such, but a lorry towing a separate “box” trailer about the same size as the truck itself and then a very large caravan right behind that… all with different numberplates
• A rocket. About 25 feet long with big tailfins, like the kind used to launch satellites. Could have been an advertising gimmick thing as it had a phone number down the side
• The front halves of two bright yellow Ford flatbed trucks (the cabs, basically) welded together, back-to-back, with a big “zip” painted around the join
• A harrier jump jet. Actually on two trucks: One for the fuselage, one for the wings
• When filming at undercliffe cemetary, a truck carrying a large silver head and hand (looking like a cyber wickerman) went past…. odd eh… (from BB)
• Two of those stairways on wheels that they use to get you on and off small aeroplanes
• Loads of clear plastic bags filled with those “twist open” plastic balls with toys in them – thousands of the bloody things

More as I remember them unless I get a life any time soon.