Hauling Herefords isn’t like towing a sailboat. A loaded stock trailer can weigh up to 30,000 pounds, and if you hook something that heavy to a bumper, you’ll drive away without your back end.
Help to transport livestock as smoothly as possible by learning these tips for how to prepare, load, and unload livestock trailers. Loading livestock trailers is one of those skills they just don’t ...
The transport of horses in double-decker trailers is dangerous and inhumane. Double-deck trailers are designed for smaller livestock, and the USDA has prohibited their use in the transport of equines ...
Fifth-wheel hitches, used on nearly every tractor trailer on the highways today, can also be mounted to the frame of your truck. Trailers are a matter of economy and efficiency. They add value and ...
A traffic accident in Bloomington on Ind. 37 and Old Ind. 37 Thursday morning led to the road being shut down for several hours to accommodate pigs that were involved in the accident. Monroe Fire ...
Sugar Land Fire Department officials said the horse was injured and later euthanized after an incident involving a livestock trailer on Highway 59.
A tractor pulling a livestock trailer smashed into a retaining wall after driving off an embankment and crashing onto a highway below on Thursday afternoon. Tire tracks could be seen in the grass in ...
Washing hands and wearing gloves while cleaning and disinfecting livestock trailers can help to reduce the spread of zoonotic pathogens as well as antimicrobial-resistant bacteria. Following ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Cattle on the freeway is never a good thing. A livestock trailer tipped over, closing both sides of I-5 at the Wilsonville road exit for a time., TVFR tweeted. Crews worked to ...