Welcome LIVESTOCK HAULERS!!!

[Capt._Chaos]

C'mon in, relax, and let's talk about the FUN & EXCITEMENT of BULL HAULIN' 101!

[Truckerdoc]

I would love to hear about bull haulin 101. I had a team driver on my show once, and she and her husband started their trucking career as livestock haulers. She told us some interesting stuff - it seems like an awfully difficult job.

What's it like to haul bulls? They are very dominant animals. Tell me a story about it, please.

Trucker Doc

[Big_Dave]

What's it like to haul bulls? They are very dominant animals. Tell me a story about it, please.
Livestock usually has more brain matter than dispatchers. :wtf: :rofl: :p

[loconuez]

It's good to see that there is someone around that can do more talk bull. You know, someone that can talk it, haul it and enjoy it. :harhar:

[dljtruck]

Every load is different...some go on /off great...others more exciting. the one that sticks in my mind was a load of 800 lb calves i loaded for a fellow to haul to market. Started out great..loaded the front of the trailer and went back in the sorting pen to gather 20 head to load the top -middle section of the trailer.I was behind the gate to herd them towards the chute...it had rained that nite..was a little muddy in the sorting pen. long story short/ somehow the calves were spooked and came towards me and the gate....the gate knocked me down and one of the 20 managed to step on my lower back as they went over me.since then i have had 1 back surgery and have some level of pain everyday since.(this happened in 99) . I know of many ,many stories of injury from cattle haulers..many way worse than mine. you can get taken out in a heartbeat if you don't know what you are doing. My load i most remember with good thoughts was a load of 1200 lb. BUFFALO i took to a locker plant. These guys loaded perfectly(better than most beef cattle!) and behaved while riding. they leaped gracefully off when unloaded. who would have thought?? Been doing this for 23 years and really enjoy it..I personally know of instances where people have been killed loading/unloading cattle.Every load is different.

[Admin]

DO YOU GIVE THIS ANIMALES WATER DURING THE RIDE?

[Big_Dave]

DO YOU GIVE THIS ANIMALES WATER DURING THE RIDE?
Yes they do. There are truckstops that have water hook ups 'out back' for livestock trailers.

If you look at the side (near the rear) of a livestock trailer, you'll see garden hose hook ups and water lines running into the trailer.

[dljtruck]

Dave is right. if your going LONG distances you have to find a "understanding" sale barn owner or feedlot operator to unload&water them.Then loadup& off you go. :)

[Admin]

POOR ANIMALES :angry:

I SAW ONE CHICKEN TRUCK THE OTHER DAY, THAT MAKES ME.....

[Big_Dave]

I SAW ONE CHICKEN TRUCK THE OTHER DAY, THAT MAKES ME.....
....wanna be a 'chicken hauler'? :D :p :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Chickens and turkeys are only on the truck maybe 4-6 hours at the most before they get to the packing plant.

Now Tyson (on Hwy 71 in AR) has rows of fans blowing air on the dropped trailers. Whether they water them or not, I have no idea. :wtf:

[dominopizzadrvr]

I spoke to two drivers the other night pulling Bull racks and they said they avoid alot of scales and logbooks are kinda done like they need to be. When a buyer buys a load of cattle,the price is based off of a 40K lb load which means they are basically overweight on every load,i would enjoy that kind of work if they were a little more by the book,i could'nt stand worrying about what scale to go around and if my log was up to snuff. They only have so many hours to get those cows off as well before they have to unload and let them have a break,i think it was 38 hours but they said most of their loads could be done in that time.

[Foxfire]

Hauling cows will kill ya! Not the actual hauling.... it's when you get delivered, get the trailer washed out, take a shower, get a bite to eat and head out to the truck to catch some of that sleep you missed on the way out that all of the other cow haulers show up and they wanna stand around and BS. Or, worse yet, some hotshot will say somethin to the effect of " I can beat you back to the yard!" Then there will be no sleep until you hit the bunkhouse 1200 miles back where you started out.
It probably isn't like that anymore, but that's the way it was when I was draggin those Avon Ladies around.
Logbook? It's somewhere in the bunk or the sidebox. Scales? Not on your life!
AHHHHHH the good old days! Oh well, I can have memories can't I?

[dominopizzadrvr]

Foxfire says the "Good Ole Days " but the funny thing is this was just about a month ago up at Homers on 40 in North Carolina.

[Bikerboy]

Its still about the same as the old days, avoid scales and run overweight and play with logbook. It's all part of the fun, of being a bullhauler!!

I couldn't do it, i was too scared to get caught for something. Now maybe if it paid enough to make the risks worthwhile, then i would do it.