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Re: [RC] related to hauling -(heads out windows) - DarkHorseGoddess

The screens are just like regular size "window screens", but heavier 

material...very tough. My hay stays in place very nicely with the screens up. 
(I 
never drive faster than about 30mph with "heads out the window") 

A few years ago in MN, someone was driving down the road with the trailer 
windows open and the horses heads sticking out. When they got to the state 
park, 
the driver's wife got out to unload the horses, and she discovered the horse 
in the front stall.... dead. The horse in the second stall...dying.

Now, I was not at the park when this happen, but my friend Dawn was, and she 
told me that the dead horse's head was missing, and the other horse had half 
his head caved in, his neck was broken, the horse was down in the trailer and 
barely alive, a Vet had to be called in to euthanize him. She said the inside 
of the trailer was like a blood bath, and the side of the trailer was smeared 
with blood and horse hair. 

It was thought that a semi truck in the opposite lane came to close to 
trailer, and clipped the horse's head. The trailer's driver did not know his 
horses 
had been killed & injured, until he got to the state park, and went to unload 
his horses.  Dawn said the driver's wife was hysterical and had to be driven 
into town to the ER.

Now.....IMHO, anyone who chooses to drive their trailer, and allow their 
horse's head to stick out while the rig is moving, is an accident and injury 
waiting too happen. What about the flying debris off the road?  

I do not have nylon screens on my trailer windows, I have metal grates. I 
prefer those over the screens. My thoughts are that I want grates over my 
windows, cuz I do not want my horse to be able to "push" the screens out, or in 
the 
event of a rollover/accident I want my horse contain inside my trailer, I do 
not want them flying out of a screen window. Anywho, that is just my opinion. 

Please think about your horse's safety, and do not let their heads hang out 
while your rig is moving. 

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