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| Is there a big problem with people smashing into the rear of horse trailers that has been solved by applying the words "Caution Show Horses!" to the rear of the trailer or is this just so everyone knows that you are super cool and show horses :) |
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Location: Northern Utah | I always thought that Horse trailers were LARGE enough to be seen regardless of what is inside. Of course, Maybe the Tow Haulers are more dangerous because they have much higher ground clearance and use a ramp to load their ATVs. Folks give extra distance so they don't slide underneath and have that ramp drop on their heads. Maybe we should go back to the old days with the horses tails hanging over the back door and road apples dropping on the hood of anybody that follows too close. |
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Location: michigan | LOL..I have always wondered about the Caution show horses!...sticker..as if any other trailer you can hit but NOT this one. Our horses are special so go hit the stock trailer.... |
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Location: Kentucky | Where's the 'like' button?! |
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| Personally, I like to rear-end vans that are posted 'Caution! Show Dogs...Do Not Tailgate' 12 |
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Location: La Cygne, KS | While I'm not a fan of the "show horses" sticker which sorta indicates that any other horse is not as important, you'd be surprised at how the average non-horse person is not familar with horse trailers. We use our LQ for camping at RV campgrounds and we always get lookers asking what the trailer was built for since it is very different from the typical RV. We even had one guy say he wants a gooseneck hitch instead of his fifth wheel after seeing how much more beefy it was. Ha! |
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Location: western PA | Remember the "Baby On Board" decals? They and the horse decals, are an attempt to have those around you think and drive more safely. In today's driving environment, we need every advantage possible, to arrive unscathed at our destinations. |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | One of my pet peeves is that large, slow-moving vehicles DO NOT have enough lighting and signage to alert other motorists that they are LARGE and SLOW MOVING!
I first noticed this as a bus driver. Those 26,000 poung behemoths have two small tail lights and five tiny clip lights across the top. Heading out on the highway at O Dark Thirty on a winter morning I always feared someone who was busy drinking coffee or getting dressed while they drove or still half asleep would crash into the back. Didn't happen fortunately but following other buses I could see the tail lights were not adequate.
Same goes for trailer tail lights. Having a sign that says Show Horses is a little too much for me but Caution Horses should be required.
How about we invent a faux horsetail and a pitching machine that will spew horse apples onto the roadway out the back of the trailer? |
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Location: MI. | How about we invent a faux horsetail and a pitching machine that will spew horse apples onto the roadway out the back of the trailer? Ha Ha Ha! I'm for it! One time in town I was making a right hand turn. I somewhat went further into the intersection in order to make the turn without taking out the curb. Well, right when my truck was coming around to complete the turn I had two little cars squeeze up on my right and turn before I made the turn. Can they not see my big white self with top and side blinkers going? The bike lane isn't an extra car lane. I just don't think people who have no experience or knowledge of hauling trailers understand. It's frustrating. |
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Location: S. Central Illinois | I have always thought that everyone should have to pull some sort of a trailer prior to even receiving their license. It is far different to be told what to do and actually doing it on the road. I have a 15 year old who just got his permit. He will drive and learn how to back a trailer before I let him get his license (don't care what the state says). |
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Location: Texas | I always just figured the people who have the "Caution Horses" decals on their trailers were the people who have horses that kick. |
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Location: MI. | Originally written by my3horses on 2011-04-25 9:02 AM I have always thought that everyone should have to pull some sort of a trailer prior to even receiving their license. It is far different to be told what to do and actually doing it on the road. I have a 15 year old who just got his permit. He will drive and learn how to back a trailer before I let him get his license (don't care what the state says ). I agree. |
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Location: North Carolina | This plus ... !
Originally written by jdzaharia on 2011-04-25 8:13 AM
I always just figured the people who have the "Caution Horses" decals on their trailers were the people who have horses that kick.
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Location: Northern Utah | I always figured it was a warning that if you don't like green stuff on your windshield, keep your distance and don't tailgate. A few years ago, I was make turn and went wide so I didn't drag my trailer across the curb. And like the aboe post, I had a little car sneek up my right side just as I was making the turn. I felt a little bump bump and looked in the mirror and saw this little car going over the curb. Traffic was horible, by time I got turned around and came back they were gone, Big chunks of the curb were broke out. I had just a couple little marks on my cat walk. I don't know if I pushed them over the curb or they just jumped the curb trying to get away from my trailer. I had my signals on, so it was their fault for trying to turn inside of me. So I felt no sorrow. |
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Location: Lincoln, NE | It seems like some people put their brain in park when they put their car in gear. |
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Location: Virginia | How about we invent a faux horsetail and a pitching machine that will spew horse apples onto the roadway out the back of the trailer? Standard feature on the Blue Moon trailer. |
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Location: MS | Just today, I was coming to an intersection, with my signal to turn left. There was a big truck with dumptrailer on the left intersection leg making a right. He got to the stop a nanosecond before me, and proceeded, but he didn't have any blinker on so I had thought he was going straight. Most 18 wheel drivers are very conscious of their size and need for a wide right turn so give the oncoming traffic a heads up. Not this guy! Fortunately, my years of driving rigs bigger than a car make me intuitive. I didn't stop as far back as I would have had he given me a clue, but managed for him to not remove the front of my truck. I did yell at him a little, not that he cared. He was too busy hauling in to his turn! |
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Location: Minnesota | Instead of th "Show Horses" sticker maybe we should put the "Wide Turns" sign on the back of our trailers. |
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Location: NY | On my trailer is reads caution horse, I put them on so people know that I am driving with my horses in mind not how fast they can go |
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Location: MI. | Originally written by genebob on 2011-04-25 7:03 PM
Instead of th "Show Horses" sticker maybe we should put the "Wide Turns" sign on the back of our trailers. I was thinking of putting a wide right turn sticker on our trailer but hubby said if they aren't paying attention to your blinkers and how big you are, they won't acknowledge the sticker either.
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Location: NY | as some body said you can not fix stupid and they can not read |
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Location: New Salem, ND | I was going to put the wide right turn sticker on too. but your hubby makes a very valid point!!! My hubby said the same thing.. It is just really hard to admit them being right..LOL. Although I am 35' long on the deck, so I am really a big rig and people don't get how wide I need to be to make that turn!! |
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Location: Gallatin, TN | Originally written by Gone on 2011-04-25 7:12 AM How about we invent a faux horsetail and a pitching machine that will spew horse apples onto the roadway out the back of the trailer? I second this! |
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Location: centrally located amongst the "NUTS" | Originally written by Gone on 2011-04-26 5:47 AM Originally written by genebob on 2011-04-25 7:03 PM
Instead of th "Show Horses" sticker maybe we should put the "Wide Turns" sign on the back of our trailers. I was thinking of putting a wide right turn sticker on our trailer but hubby said if they aren't paying attention to your blinkers and how big you are, they won't acknowledge the sticker either. He is absolutly correct. These same narcissistic individuals are the one you see trying to pass semi trucks making a right turn. There isnt a sticker big enough to get their attention. The best you can do is expect that some one is going to do something stupid to get around you. |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | A little off topic ....our Vet told our friends when they received a well bred /trained horse at a very good deal ( actually willed to them after a death) to tell everyone at the barn they boarded at who asked how much they paid for it ....that it was worth alot of money...so then it would be well taken care of... and it was ... |
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Location: East Tennessee, USA, Planet Earth | I have "Caution Ponies" on the back of my trailer. HA! |
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Location: Richmond, Ky | Originally written by pinkmouse on 2011-04-25 4:14 PM
How about we invent a faux horsetail and a pitching machine that will spew horse apples onto the roadway out the back of the trailer? Standard feature on the Blue Moon trailer.
don't forget the auto dump valve on the black water tank coming out this year for those who refuse to back-off ya bumper!!!!
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Location: Missouri | I've thought same about these caution stickers, made no sense to me other then to say "Hey, I'm special!" I had a trucker once call me on the radio to let me know I was leaking water, I said where from, he said the back door, I said buddy, that ain't water.
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Location: Kentucky | Originally written by hornet on 2012-11-12 8:00 PM
I had a trucker once call me on the radio to let me know I was leaking water, I said where from, he said the back door, I said buddy, that ain't water. We REALLY need a "like" button on this forum! |
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Location: NY | That should be a bumper sticker ( that is not water coming for my end) |
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Location: Texas | as a teen, and the days of bumper pull trailers that the horses tails did hang over the back, my mare decided to tinkle.....
Did you know tht when you use your windshield wipers on horse urine, it just smudges? They guy tail gaiting found that out.
I never understood the baby on board signs. Did that mean I should drive any different? What, I should be careless around non baby carrying cars?
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Location: grantville pa | HA - I always wanted to have "forget the horses, Woman Driver, Back off" on the back of my trailer.
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Location: Manitoba, Canada | I've never had a trailer a horse could hang a tail out the back of and water the tail gating cars, but did have a wooden floor they could pee through while parked at the gas pump...Bad drivers aren't just the ones who slide up inside your turn, they're also the ones who think you pulled out in front of them too close and then went deliberately slow with your 4 horse trailer just to tick them off. Had a guy in a cute little red convertible who pulled out and passed me in that situation, but cut in right on my front bumper and flipped me the bird before he took off. I had to slam on the brakes to avoid running him over, and loaded with 2 small kids and 4 horses, I tell you, I had visions of flattened red convertibles for the next 30 miles. |
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| Yeah,real nice (and STUPID) of him. We were hauling one mare up through the hills to a trainer's once.Pulling a stock type 3H steel trailer.A group of motorcycles went around us on the passing lane but one guy insisted on hanging right to the back left of the trailer.I told my husband that I could see him back there when I'd turn around and look.Why he didn't either go on or back off is beyond me,unless his particular cycle didn't have the power to go around on the hill. I guess our mare decided that would be a good time to expel some extra water,and,next thing I knew,the guy backed WAAAY off.We saw his buds pulled over at a big parking lot waiting on him.When we got to our destination,I realized the REASON for his backing waaaay off. Oh,well~~~! |
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Location: Rocky Mount N.C. | I guess he was now riding a "rinse-cycle" rather than a motorcycle...!! |
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| Originally written by retento on 2012-11-15 9:07 AM I guess he was now riding a "rinse-cycle" rather than a motorcycle...!! Yeah,REALLY!!LOL |
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Location: Ohio | It has already been said but it is amazing how many people have know idea my LQ slant load is actually a horse trailer. I don't have "show horses" on the back but it does say "caution horses" and I have the wide turn decal. I drive slower, break sooner and accelerate slower due to the horses, it is not because my truck can't get up and move faster. I have noticed that at times it does cause people to stand off my bumper a little more. Not always but any time it does is a help. You are right, you can't fix stupid, but sometimes having it written on the back of the rig does wake up some drivers to the reason your are driving more cautious. Every advantage I can get, i will take. |
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Location: Massachusetts | I saw once a small sticker on the tail gate of a horse trailer saying "If you can read this Im not responsable for road apples on your hood" |
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| This is not the first time I have seen this subject brought up on this forum and I guess I just don't get why the sticker Caution show horses upsets so many people. Why do you even care what someone puts on the back of their trailer. In the grand scheme of things does it really matter. I don't have anything on the back of my trailer, but my brother had the best sticker ever that said "It don't hurt do it in the dirt". My mother was absolutely mortified the day she borrowed his trailer and one of her friends pointed it out to her. The family laughed about it for years. |
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