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<blockquote data-quote="gizmom" data-source="post: 1493951" data-attributes="member: 13402"><p>Upland </p><p></p><p>I don't know what the answer is but I do believe livestock has to be considered differently than common freight. The state of Florida ships a lot of calves if your shipping from central Florida your looking at 6 to 8 hours to get out of the state. The fastest route from Miami to where we live in Pensacola is over 9 hours. I know when we hauled cattle to the Junior angus national shows we would leave late afternoon and drive all night in order to keep the cattle cool. We were hauling dead broke cattle and they got to where they didn't want to get back on the trailer. I can't begin to imagine Unloading a pot load of green calves for down time. It sounds like a great idea in theory, but not so much if your the one trying to get them back on the truck. </p><p></p><p>Alabama I listened to a speaker yesterday talk about what the cost of having to pull one calf out of the feedlot for treatment cost the producer. Can you imagine how much more it will cost when cattle are unloaded into pens in route due to these new regulations. It is just adding one more unnecessary exposure to calves that are already stressed. It has been proven that shipping is already a huge stress on them but loading and unloading is just adding more.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Gizmom</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gizmom, post: 1493951, member: 13402"] Upland I don’t know what the answer is but I do believe livestock has to be considered differently than common freight. The state of Florida ships a lot of calves if your shipping from central Florida your looking at 6 to 8 hours to get out of the state. The fastest route from Miami to where we live in Pensacola is over 9 hours. I know when we hauled cattle to the Junior angus national shows we would leave late afternoon and drive all night in order to keep the cattle cool. We were hauling dead broke cattle and they got to where they didn’t want to get back on the trailer. I can’t begin to imagine Unloading a pot load of green calves for down time. It sounds like a great idea in theory, but not so much if your the one trying to get them back on the truck. Alabama I listened to a speaker yesterday talk about what the cost of having to pull one calf out of the feedlot for treatment cost the producer. Can you imagine how much more it will cost when cattle are unloaded into pens in route due to these new regulations. It is just adding one more unnecessary exposure to calves that are already stressed. It has been proven that shipping is already a huge stress on them but loading and unloading is just adding more. Gizmom [/QUOTE]
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