An Overloaded Transport Truck.

Wait a Second October 7th, 2008

While driving around Richmond Hill the other day we encountered this truck.

Would you agree that the carbon footprint this delivery will leave behind is inappropriate for the cargo? That’s either some immensely heavy drywall or the supply company owns no smaller vehicles.


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  • http://fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    I can’t see what company it is – you should report them to the people that keep a track of things like this.

    • Chris

      thay are sticks on and in between the lifts of dry wall so we can pic them up with the craen the stick go back and get recycled

      • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

        Thanks for the info!

  • http://haleyhughes.blogspot.com haleyhughes

    Hopefully, the truck was going that direction anyway. I hope.

    (haleyhughes’s last blog post: Going Pink)

  • dr. mommy dentist

    kinda reminds me of the time this shiny red behemoth ford truck was parked next to us at a home depot in queens, new york, and the owner came out of the store with his young son after making his purchase. not lumber, or furniture, or anything bulky requiring transfer. he literally had purchased a bag of nails. what a waste!

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    So should I send the pictures to Al Gore or Greenpeace?

  • http://fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    How about both?

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    I’m certain one of them will read my blog some day soon and see this post.

  • http://www.pinaymomblogs.com desperateblogger

    umm… maybe the truck was on it’s last delivery route?

    (desperateblogger’s last blog post: Pregnancy Massage)

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    desperateblogger wins the award for most analytic comment!

    I did think of this when I first saw the truck. The drywall consists of narrow horizontal strips loaded crisscross on the truck bed. It’s hard to imagine what anyone would want to do with these and why they would need such a small amount delivered to them rather than running out to Home Depot and picking it up themselves.

    My only explanation for the picture is, as you suggested, the final delivery of many for the truck and that the drywall is a specialty drywall (acoustic or radiation blocking). Because of our xray units we had to use specialty drywall at the practice when it was being built.

  • devon

    you guys are a bunch of lame ass democraps.. carbon foot print.

    clearly the only reason you were in the homedepot parking lot was because the starbucks and the gay honda penis store was next door.

    i will tell you. that the strip of the truck. are what they use as donage between the stacks of sheet rock weighing around 2000 to 3000 pounds each.. you are total idoits.. for thinking thats the only thing that guy was hauling.

    give the guy a brake. its guys like him and the guys who hang the sheet rock that make your gay little shopping centers and house in a box condos and cookie cutter homes.

    if you are so worried about fixing your stupid carbon foot prints.. maybe. you should do the people who actually produce and provide to the common wealth a favor.. and take your foot print and step off something tall. there by atleast reducing one more wasted foot print used for nothing else then winning and belly aching about something they have no control over or can change.

    heres a better deal. go down to south america and get a job with all the other tree huggers and chain yourselves to the trees.. or help instal cattle mufflers.

    “everyone is willing to bitch about the weather. but no one is willing to do anything about it”

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    Thanks for the info. Long message for a short explanation. Guess you needed the practice spelling.

    I’ll actually keep your comment just so that everyone can see how assholes do have a few brain cells which don’t all spew bullshit.

    Now don’t go get all mad and knock over an old woman…

  • dude

    Now i have to agree with Devon. It’s absurd to believe that everyone should buy a separate vehicle designed for a specific purpose. The post above about the “shiny red behemoth ford truck” at the home depot for a bag of nails suggests that the guy should go buy a little smart car if he’s picking up a bag of nails and use his “behemoth” for furniture. Now imagine that carbon foot print if everyone subscribed to this ludicrous paradigm, 5 or 6 vehicles per household.

    To pass judgement on anything you see at first glance is very naieve and narrow minded.

    Being environmentally consious is a good thing but passing judgement on others and comming home to post it on a blog and pat yourselves on the back serves no purpose. In fact ask yourself of the carbon foot print you just made. Electricity to run you computer; environmental costs to create that computer and get it to your home. Do you all really need computers? How many times in the last 5 years have you upgraded and discraded you computers? Do you know exactly how much poisonous materials go into making a computer (laptops are much worse). How many cell phones are in use in the “enviromentally friendly” circles? There are much worse things environmentally than a bad “carbon footprint”

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    dude: Thanks for a coherent comment. When you and Devon (I’m assuming that you’re different people because you know where the shift key is on your keyboard) get together and talk about this post, let him know that you are the more intelligent one.

    1. Electricity to run my computer. I use my computer for personal and business communication while at home. That’s a necessary expenditure for my household.

    2. Manufacturing costs. See 1.

    3. Do we need computers? If you came to me as a patient, you would be happy that I was computerized.

    4. Upgrades in the last 5 years. None.

    5. Poisonous materials in computers. I have an idea of how much, but why don’t you give me the exact numbers?

    6. Cell phones in use. I don’t know. Society advances with technology. Yes, there are worse things than excessive greenhouse gas emission — things like mercury in our water sources, oil spills, the Unabomber. If you want to live a “Deliverance” life-style that’s fine. But that type of lifestyle also pollutes. Think of your fireplace, whiskey still, pickup truck. Whatever.

    Read my post again. Judgement is inferred. In reality, a question was asked to stimulate discussion. Different opinions were provided. Devon actually gave a useful answer but it’s lost in the steaming bullshit of his comment.

    A sense of humor is a good thing. With it, you would both see the context within which the post and its comments should be framed.

    Both you and Devon have explicitly passed judgement on every one of the commenters of this post. You have both done it without discussing the post with them. You have also assumed that we live a different, higher class, life from yours. Your assumptions have made both of you seem as self-righteous as you imply I and the other commenters are. Because you have passed judgement on something that you’ve seen at first glance, you have proven yourself hypocrites.

  • http://www.fragileheart.com/journal/ fragileheart

    Now why would anyone need to get so defensive over this post? I believe the intent was humorous… I caught it. Why can’t you, Devon and dude?

    Its not like this is the blog of an extreme environmentalist. Its the blog of a professional, who happened to see something one day that made me laugh a little and wanted to share it with his blogger friends. And we appreciated the humour in his post. If you can’t take a joke, then please take your negativity elsewhere.

    And dude, I think you’re being a bit of a hypocrite asking about the energy he has wasted on this blog post considering you had to use a computer to come here and make a comment. Of course, I realise you could be using a computer at an internet cafe but the point is the same, you’re using electricity and whatever else too.

    You two have made a point about making snap judgements, and how its wrong to do so. Yet you’ve gone and done exactly that. Maybe you need to take step back and look at yourself before you go pointing fingers at others.

    (fragileheart’s last blog post: Flickr Friday: Pink roses)

  • Jason

    Many trucks do LTL loads chances are the truck made several drops and he was on his way to do a final drop. I will admit what the guy was saying the big ford truck that he found at the home depot well I di stop at places with my semi on the way home because believe it or not my truck gets 9-10 mpg unladen (not trailer just the truck) which is almost comparable to your average diesel pickup truck. I also park my truck at home so I think that goes into the combining trips. My truck is a 2006 freightliner a comparison to these newer trucks versus older ones it takes 88 trucks manufactured after 2004 now there were newer more strict emission standards brought into the industru in 2008 and as of 2010 with even newer technology in the diesel sector with urea injection which utilizes and NH4 and H2O souloution which is injected to the deisel particulate after burning chamber the only emissions that a class 8 semi (such as the one pictured) will produce is nitrogen and water vapour since a chemical reaction with the “harmful green house gas emissions” almost totally neutralizes all harmful emissions. th DD15 engine for 2010 that detroit engines will be comming out with is one of these such engines. The commercial transport sector has done its job now when are the car/vehicle manufacturers going to do there job and get the average pesonal vehicle down to those levels. And what about locomotives and ocean going vessels I always see them puking out black smoke and even bc ferries I see puking out black. We should be going after them.

  • http://www.endodontics.ca Periapex

    Thanks for stopping by and commenting Jason. You have certainly educated me about the consciousness your industry has of our environment.

    With the north american automakers in trouble and consumer demand for fuel efficient, less polluting vehicles, I suspect that the car companies that will prevail will be those that innovate along the lines of your industry.

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