Mortuary Transport Services

Here’s a story about a man who was carried to the morgue en masse with a bunch of other dead bodies, and woke up thirsty.
I was sometimes worried that something like this would happen to me, a body not really being dead when I picked it up and transported it. One of the funeral homes [...] Read more »

I suppose we should still be grateful for some of our laws and customs here in America.
This is an excerpt from a story about how the local ‘transit service’ people are punished for parking everywhere at a hospital by being forced to clean the mortuary and clean bodies.
It’s a different world there in Ghana. Makes me [...] Read more »

Some of the saddest work in the mortuary transport business is babies and children. As owner of my business, the job of picking up miscarriage remains and stillborn babies many times fell to me.
With the remains being so small, you don’t take a gurney to bring attention to yourself. It’s a little odd carrying a baby [...] Read more »

Here is an excellent interview published by The Arizona Republic. This is good information for everyone, but especially for the Mortuary Transportation business person, as it helps answer a few questions you’ll hear along the way.
Prearrangements are important, and we all should grow up and deal with it. You can’t avoid it, so it’s silly [...] Read more »

Ok, maybe you don’t live in Florida, but there is still opportunity anywhere you have a large transplanted elderly population, like Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.
You’ll notice the increasing rate of cremation. This is many times done as a cost saving motive, and the nice thing about the cremation business is that many times, based [...] Read more »

NORTH, S.C. - The night of April 2 was a most unusual one for the North Police Department in a very eerie sort of way.
At 11:30 p.m., Police Chief Mark Fallaw removed a canister from the rafters of the picnic shelter on U.S. 321. Much to his surprise, the canister contained a 65-year-old Ohio woman [...] Read more »

From Weekly Toll:
Fallen Power Pole Kills Contract Utility Worker
Dallas,TX - A utility worker from Oklahoma was killed Saturday when a power pole crushed him. Thomas Lansdale was part of a utility crew working to restore power knocked out by Thursday’s storms. Witnesses said crews were using a small crane to hoist a 4,000-pound utility pole [...] Read more »