Reply #10: I've always called them box haulers

[MajorChode]

Unless you're hauling blood and urine lab samples. Then you're a pee hauler.

They swarm the DFW area at night flying everything from Caravans to 747s.

I know a retired pilot that flew freight at one point in his career and he had a lot of interesting stories to tell. He said they were hauling elephants once and they had been well fed and watered before the flight. They had set up some type of small pool around them to contain the waste, but when they pitched down for the descent the stuff breached the levy and a lot of it surged into the cockpit.