ERFMarc:
If your not driving smoothly enough the horse will tell you pretty quickly!
How do you tell - they always have that long face anyway - bit like the misses ! 
Jenson Button:
ERFMarc:
If your not driving smoothly enough the horse will tell you pretty quickly!How do you tell - they always have that long face anyway - bit like the misses !
they kick off ⌠literally
Its easy, just as others have said, take it nice and steady, read the road ahead and try to keep the wagon rolling, keep your braking, gearchanging and acceleration nice and smooth.
One Horse is easy, you wanna try this with 18 of them on board!!!
Iâve been around horses for as long as I can remember but only wish to add this :
This can never be just a âone offâ favour, if you manage this one successfully then every horse owner in 3 counties will soon be on the phone 
Be warned !
Chas:
Iâve been around horses for as long as I can remember but only wish to add this :This can never be just a âone offâ favour, if you manage this one successfully then every horse owner in 3 counties will soon be on the phone
Be warned !
Could lead to some wee cash in hand numbers 
jimbotruck:
Its easy, just as others have said, take it nice and steady, read the road ahead and try to keep the wagon rolling, keep your braking, gearchanging and acceleration nice and smooth.One Horse is easy, you wanna try this with 18 of them on board!!!
How do you work out the weight and where to put em ?
Oh and thanks for the warning - the misses is already on about taking up riding again now the kids are a bit older, and the little un is asking santa for a pony ! and me dad will probably buy his grandkids one especially if i say no 
18 horses is going to be around 9 or 10 tonnes
merc0447:
Could lead to some wee cash in hand numbers
I can tell instantly that your only experiences of horses involves John (bloody) McCririck, Channel 4 & televisions bolted high up on walls where the losers canât break them.
Horses EAT ÂŁmoney. The more ÂŁmoney these people have, the more horses they own.
Theyâd pay ÂŁ1500 for a saddle, but theyâd pay a mug punter SFA if he was daft enuff to volunteer to do a menial task.
ROG:
18 horses is going to be around 9 or 10 tonnes
Plus 5 ton of â â â â after a 24 hour journey from Holland!!
Not much Fun mucking the trailer out afterwards 
jimbotruck:
Its easy, just as others have said, take it nice and steady, read the road ahead and try to keep the wagon rolling, keep your braking, gearchanging and acceleration nice and smooth.
!
^this is good advice
How do you work out the weight and where to put em ?
Start at the front and work towards the back
Seriously, you should find the horse box has partitions so the horses can travel separately, leave the loading and unloading to your wife and her friend, just do the driving
ROG:
18 horses is going to be around 9 or 10 tonnes
Only if youâve got horses that weigh 450-500kg some will be lighter, some will be heavier !
Have you transported a lot of horses Rog ?
JB, I got a nice Horsebox for sale if you end up with a few hahaha ^^^^^
My first truck driving jobs were moving horses round for my mother, and itâs true once you start then you do get called on time and time again. 
Iâve read the advice from people on here who have far more experience than me and pretty much agree with what they say, keep it smooth, plan even further ahead than you would normally. Even then the buggers will still clatter around in the back.
Over the years Iâve thought of a couple of way of making horses more secure in a truck.
One of them is to have an electro-magnet in the floor of the truck and turn it on once youâve loaded, provided they have shoes theyâll should stick to the floor.
The other way might help Jimbotruck that is to stack them in like stikklebricks, legs to legs.
Funnily enough my mother never seemed keen on the idea.
Denis F:
ROG:
18 horses is going to be around 9 or 10 tonnesOnly if youâve got horses that weigh 450-500kg
18 of my horse would come in more like 14tâŚ
Paul
Sorry if this sounds a bit thick, but how do you get them in there? Does the side of the trailer lift up or summat? That gangway looks a bit narrow 
the partitions ( walls) are hinged at the front - open them up and as someone else said earlier start at the front , put one in the front pen , swing the partition round and lock it into place , repeat to you run out of room or horses .
just get the woman to ride it back
There are a lot of neigh sayers on this thread
No need for driver checks, just saddle up and move em out, you have to be back before sundown
Denis F:
ROG:
18 horses is going to be around 9 or 10 tonnesOnly if youâve got horses that weigh 450-500kg
Have you transported a lot of horses Rog ?
Never transported one
I got the weights as an average from the towing advice I give on the Horse and Hounds site