Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

Hauling logs in the woods or moving a Ranchers/Ag product were the best jobs in trucking to me. Good people. Just to be on someones private land was a treat.

 

I agree the best part of the job is ridin into unseen country miles off the beaten path. Showing up year after year to load for the same family with the same trucks.



The job has its down falls...such as showing up to haul the same calves year after year and you ask about someone that’s missing. Be it a farmer or one of the trucks and learn they have passed on.


I never ask what a load is or where it’s going doesn’t do any good anyway. Loaded some dairy cattle after a going outta business sale. Old fella been in the dairy business his whole life, his father was before him. Told something about each ol cow as she went on the trailer. Or maybe her mother etc. That was the single hardest day I have ever had in this business. You could tell he had no idea what to do without the dairy.




This is my favorite picture of the truck. Reason being is because it’s sitting in my driveway. A place it doesn’t see near enough.

 

I never hauled livestock either but grew up on a farm with a step father that was a cow hauler which meant I got good at operating the Mexican backhoe AKA a shovel .
Cleaning pens and the Merritt cattle pot....winter was even funner when all that poo froze and of course there was always snow to shovel as well.
I dont care if I live in Vegas I will own a snowblower as long as I live .

 

God bless all the bull haulers... U guys are a special breed and do a job most couldnt even dream of doing... Could count on 1 hand how many times i called out on the cb at a cattle pot and they didnt answer... Everytime i got the hood open in the truck stop and wrenching on something, if a cattle pot is near , theres most likely gonna be a feller walking over and lend a helping hand .. You guys are the class of the industry by far ... This industry could use more of those types of drivers.

With all that said , i became a flatbedder because even bull haulers need heros !

 

Um? What makes a hero.. exactly? Being a good role model sounds better.

 

I miss pulling a pot. Just felt a little bit cooler cruising down the road with that trailer following me. Even some on the complete dipsticks I worked with brought themselves up a notch or two when pulling a pot

 

I been hauling pig for about 2 years now. only time I got hurt loading them is when a wild one ran outta the jail and straight to the ramp where I was at knocking Me clear to the bottom of it luckily the pig landed next to me and not on me.
I only haul cattle a couple time just short hauls around 400 loaded miles but really enjoy doing it and seeing the view and meeting the people rising them

 

Hogs can be energetic things lol never know what to expect.