Livestock Trailers

Livestock trailers, especially those hauling cattle, do not get cleaned very often for a reason. Clean trailers are very also very slick so to avoid this they intentionally keep the trailers "dirty". Slick trailers cause injury.

Being a farmer myself, I certainly can understand your disease concern but around here we dont buy cattle by the trailer load, only sell and more times than not it is done through the stockyards when we sell that many cattle. So the risk of disease is kind of a mute point.

 

I haul for one guy that told me not to bring him a freshly washed out trailer. It is hard to get cattle to step into one sometimes.

 

Are you talking a pot or a gooseneck stock trailer? Steel or aluminum?

 

Yeah be a little more specific with what your looking for..

And who the hell are you guys hauling for that want the trailers kept dirty??

 

I'm not cutting you in. I haul for people that run range cattle, in and out of sale barns, pasture to pasture, to feed lots etc. I don't haul black and white cows. Ever notice how nice cattle walk on a dirty trailer versus a freshly washed out one? Less chance of something getting hurt.

 

I've pulled around a few different makes of both tandems and tridem liners my preference are the Wilson with the Merrit being my next. That being said the next poaster may have a different preference and in the end they all do the same job. So I guess in the end it just boils down to what you can find in decent shape in your price range. The biggest things to watch out for are 1 smooth wore out floors 2 sagging and wore out gates 3 the ramp and counter balance into the nose. Hope this is of some help.

 

Don't worry I don't want to cut in, I haul range cattle too no black and white stuff, and no I've never noticed cattle get on a dirty trailer easier, but then again I know what I'm doing....

 

I guess everyone is different but more folks than not will tell you that the floor of the trailer can not be shining clean. This makes for a very slippery floor and yes sometimes cattle will not walk on it.
I agree with having a clean looking rig but the floor is what matters.
Cowmobile you can not seriously tell me that you haul cattle for a living and have not heard of this before.