does anyone how to find a livestock haulling job

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Also, do a yellowpages.com search, for your area, for trucking companies that haul livestock.

Best of Luck!!!!

 

I know of a lot in south texas,north texas,oklahoma and kansas.....Like chicken said look into the yellow pages or on the internet....A lot of them dont require too much experience but if you decide to haul cattle on a double decker with all that top heavy weight and no experience or just a little experience then you might wind up turned over in a ditch.Good Luck....I want to haul cattle as well...Let me know what happens!

 

I dont know anything about this company but they are hiring reefer or dryvan cant remember but they allso have cattle trucks. Maybe something to look into?? www.loboexpress.com/trucking/

 

How to find a livestock hauler??? Hmmmmmm...... follow a cow?????

Big question is do you know anything about livestock and their care? Not like hauling freight y'know. These are live animals that are very expensive and very fragile. Put a bunch of livestock in a trailer that has "residue" from previous occupants and watch how fast they get sick. Know how to recognize sick animals before you load em? Be the guy who transported a cow with Mad Cow across state lines and you could be on the hook for millions of dollars. Hit a bump too hard and arrive with cattle/horses with broken legs and see what happens.

This is a highly specialized form of trucking.

 

Not to mention the work involved

 

Go hang out at the stock yards and talk to drivers that do it. You might see all the hard work that is involved and realize it's not for you real quick. Then again you might be a crazy sob and want to do it even more. The hands that do it can give you some insight on how to get started possibly. I can tell you one thing from my experience working the farm growing up, if you don't know anything about animals and how to handle them it ain't gonna be for you.

 

Sorry, but these are the "mainstream" facts: If you have zero livestock hauling experience, BUT you have livestock working experience, you MIGHT get lucky and get hooked up running IF you know someone. If you have no livestock working experience, then you would obviously have no hauling experience, therefore zero livestock experience..... you're probably not going to get hooked to a wagon.

That said: IF you're willing to run team with a trainer and you can find an outfit willing to train you, start there. It's your only real shot.

And, since I've taken the time to write all this, I just have to know: Why do you want to run a wagon?

 

because they smell so lovely parked in the back row of the hook in Ripon, CA...

 

In my best Arnold voice: What you talkin' 'bout Willis?.......

My wagon smells like roses.