This is a true story which I found especially funny because it's easy to visualize the situation.

  My ex son-in-law had this experience when he was driving long-haul 18 wheelers about 15 years ago.

  He was in the midwest on a run to California when he approached a weigh station.  From a half mile away, he could see white bits of something all about the weigh station, both sides of the interstate and in the medium strip.  When he pulled in for the weighing, he learned what had happened.

  A truck pulling an old reefer box trailer (these were the trucks made before refridgeration units were available that had the two little doors in the rear corners of the trucks (for shoving ice blocks into racks inside the trucks to keep the contents cold.

  What was "strange" was that the truck showed very close to empty on the scales and it was a sealed trailer.   The manifest furnished by the driver indicated the load was "Sporting goods" (or Sports Equipment).  Hmmmmm . . . what kind of sports equipment wouldn't weigh anything?  So, they decided to investigate.  They clipped the seal, opened the doors, and before they could get them closed again,












thousands and thousands and thousands of ping pong balls poured out of the trailer.  They used the reefer trucks because of those little doors which allowed the manufacturer to blow the ping pong balls through a large flexible hose into the trailer til' full, and then on to the packaging plant where the entire truck/trailer would be elevated and the "sports equipment" dumped into a large hopper . . . . and that's why there was a seal on the trailer.