cattle trucks

Most do and, It's definitely a plus, but, not an absolute necessity, as long as you're willing to listen and learn...

 

picture this.....todays drivers with a load of swinging meat...not very pretty

 

Aint no feelin like cowmobilin.....

Truer words never spoke.

If it wasnt so hard on the family life id still be cow trucking.

 

They do, but they can get clean papers then get ran around the pens for an hour in August, then shoved in the truck, that can and will kill them....

 

remember the great drought of 2011/2012?

 

I pull oversized loads. That means in Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, the Panhandle, Nebraska, the Dakota's, I am on the two lanes. There are more bull wagons than any other trucks in these areas once you get off the bigroad. We look for truck stops that we can eat with a fork. They're normally stacked full of cow trucks.

I guess the bull wagons and the hoppers are the last of the breed. When I first started driving, I was one of those RoosterCruiser. 130+ mph KW, west coast bumper ( they now call it a Texas bumper), chicken lights that rivaled a Christmas tree, stainless steel spread axle trailer. Get out there and run with the cattle barons and the stagecoaches. It seemed as if some of those old school bull haulers were superhuman. They drove like they were a force of nature.

i would load potatoes in Alamosa, hammer out of there, across us 160, down us 287 to Boise City, pick up that hwy 3 to okie city, hammer down thru the night. Deliver in Florida the next day. Run from Florida to deliver in Detroit. Then go from Michigan to Tennessee back to the house.

The RoosterCruisers are about extinct now. You don't see the stagecoaches running the country singers much anymore...at least the bull haulers are still out and about.