As I continue to search for the most obscure topics to seek answers from the amassed knowledge from readers here, I have come up with a very strange thing a trucker friend has seen here in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois where he travels.
He's seen ordinary flat bed trailers, 53 footers I assume, with what is apparently a box made of a 2x12" covering much of the trailer. In it he claims are nuts, which he thinks are walnuts but maybe other sorts, and from the names on the tractors many are based 'down south'.
Why they would haul nuts, especially walnuts, in the open, uncovered, at risk of getting wet or contaminated, and only a small amount rather than a full box, or the whole nut rather than just the meat after the shell has been removed is strange. He's seen this last year and a few this year and just saw another one, empty, heading south.
Unfortunately he's never seen one of these haulers at a rest stop so he can't ask the driver what's up.
My friend does drink, but not while working so I can't blame hallucinations. Any thoughts?
Dale
