Why do you feel that you need to ride your horses on the highway. Even though horses have been on the carriageways (HINT) for many a year, (eg thousands) we as truck drivers think we own the right to dictate who owns the roads. Even if the first mechanised road haulage was in the Boer war when the British Army had to move big guns.
We still believe that if we have a 14:15pm slot for TESCO Middlewhich with 26 pallets of toilet tissue then we should be able to get to that location without any regard to anyone who has a right to be on the public highway. As you can see, we as truck drivers struggle with the word PUBLIC.
Don’t post any videos or you’ll be in troll corner 
Well said
I do think it’s time that ALL road users, not just truck drivers, realise that the only things that have the RIGHT to use the roads are pedestrians, cycles and horses, everything else has a privilege which is obtained when you get your licence and is subject to the restrictions on that licence.
I use all modes of transport, except horses but the missus has a horse, I just can’t ride. Cycle, walk, car, motorbike, bus / coach and hgv - I have gained all the licences required for the latter ones and still choose to do the former when I get the chance
and i think that if you are delivering 26 pallets of bog roll to tesco middlewich,
you might have a very long wait.
REAL truckers will know why… now go and do one.
chester:
Why do you feel that you need to ride your horses on the highway.
From reading many posts on the Horse and hounds site I think its fair to say they prefer not to if an alternative is available
I think Chester struggles with the INTELLIGENCE.
Going by chesters pic of Pegasus ,I guess he may be ex para and landed on his head a few times ,afterall only 2 things fall from the sky paras and pigeon ■■■■
Id rather overtake a horse on a s/c than sum pink lycra ■■■■ and his 20 pals causing complete havoc.
I’ll echo Rogs’ comments. I’d far rather ride Bertha along Bridleways and through stubble fields where there is little or no chance of us meeting mechanized transport. Unfortunately the road network has developed to the stage that what used to be a decent network of ‘off road’ riding has been reduced to a few tracks with access via roads.
No rider will willingly ride along a busy road, it is a thoroughly unpleasant experience and potentially unsafe. Having said that needs must and I find that motorcyclists and wagon drivers are the most helpful of other road users; giving us a wide berth, slowing down and not revving engines, releasing air brakes whilst passing. Unfortunately the same generalisation cannot be made for many car drivers, especially on narrow country lanes.
A request to anybody reading who is a cyclist. if you’re approaching from behind please make a noise, something like shouting ‘cyclist approaching’ when about 50 m away. The problem is that horses can hear vehicles but cyclists are almost silent so when you do come into view you’re a bit of a shock to her ladyship. As all here genetics tells her that she is a prey animal she views thing that sneak silently up on her from behind as dangerous. They are dealt with in one of two ways;
a) run away quickly - not fun for me.
b) aim one or both steel shod back feet (they’re nearly 9 inches across, with 750kg of muscle behind them) at the potential attacker - not fun for the cyclist!
On behalf of all decent riders I’d like to apologise on behalf of the 15 per cent of riders who don’t understand a few basic courtesies of the road;
- riding in single file. Sometimes difficult with a young / nervous horse, you put the more experienced horse on the outside to give support.
- saying ‘thanks’ when you’ve slowed and gone wide. This is sometimes difficult to do with a nervous horse as you really do need both hands on the steering.
- not riding along yacking on the mobile.
- wearing some hi viz.
Like I said there’s good and bad in all road user groups, let’s have a safe time out there.
Chester -are you wound up?
Or do you have nothing else to do??
Can I suggest the next thread should be a self assessment topic (based on yourself) entitled…
Any one that has nowt better to do than troll like to explain…? 
Chester, it’s obvious you don’t know the Highway Code.
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You MUST NOT take a horse onto a footpath or pavement, and you should not take a horse onto a cycle track. Use a bridleway where possible. Equestrian crossings may be provided for horse riders to cross the road and you should use these where available (see Crossings). You should dismount at level crossings where a ‘horse rider dismount’ sign is displayed.
Laws HA 1835 sect 72, R(S)A 1984, sect 129(5)
Nothing wrong with the horses.Its the arrogant gits that ride them,that don’t acknowledge you when you slow down for them that annoy me.
It’s a well known fact that horses are usually ridden by posh horsey girls in skin tight trousers that leave little to the imagination.
Crack on I say. 
Virtually all horse riders are responsible, I find the ignorant ones are the hunts (perhaps they’ve got more attitude now they can only drag hunt?) One hunt used to block the road near a sand pit I used to work out of, expecting you to get off the road.
On the whole, horse riders are sound, but when they’re driving their battered Iveco dobbin box…
geebee45:
I’ll echo Rogs’ comments. I’d far rather ride Bertha along Bridleways and through stubble fields where there is little or no chance of us meeting mechanized transport. Unfortunately the road network has developed to the stage that what used to be a decent network of ‘off road’ riding has been reduced to a few tracks with access via roads.
No rider will willingly ride along a busy road, it is a thoroughly unpleasant experience and potentially unsafe. Having said that needs must and I find that motorcyclists and wagon drivers are the most helpful of other road users; giving us a wide berth, slowing down and not revving engines, releasing air brakes whilst passing. Unfortunately the same generalisation cannot be made for many car drivers, especially on narrow country lanes.
A request to anybody reading who is a cyclist. if you’re approaching from behind please make a noise, something like shouting ‘cyclist approaching’ when about 50 m away. The problem is that horses can hear vehicles but cyclists are almost silent so when you do come into view you’re a bit of a shock to her ladyship. As all here genetics tells her that she is a prey animal she views thing that sneak silently up on her from behind as dangerous. They are dealt with in one of two ways;
a) run away quickly - not fun for me.
b) aim one or both steel shod back feet (they’re nearly 9 inches across, with 750kg of muscle behind them) at the potential attacker - not fun for the cyclist!
On behalf of all decent riders I’d like to apologise on behalf of the 15 per cent of riders who don’t understand a few basic courtesies of the road;
- riding in single file. Sometimes difficult with a young / nervous horse, you put the more experienced horse on the outside to give support.
- saying ‘thanks’ when you’ve slowed and gone wide. This is sometimes difficult to do with a nervous horse as you really do need both hands on the steering.
- not riding along yacking on the mobile.
- wearing some hi viz.
Like I said there’s good and bad in all road user groups, let’s have a safe time out there.
Well said i would love to not have to ride on the roads but there is very limited off road riding near me, most of our training is done on the beach which we have to box to once a week the rest of the week is mainly road work. I always say thank you to drivers PROVIDED they have made some sort of effort to slow down or give us a bit of space however i do not if they just squeese or fly past. As a driver it annoys me when i meet horses and riders that dont say thank you, i feel like winding down the window and saying a smile and a nod dosnt take much effort and it stops you giving the rest of us a bad name!
As said riders of cycles and horses along with pedestrians use the roads by right,drivers of motor transport use the roads by licence,an important difference.I think that when a horse defecates on the highway the rider should have to clear up in the same manner as dog owners are expected to do.There are a few double -barreled posh totty that I would like to see lying in the gutter.