Posted 2005-05-29 6:37 PM (#25806 - in reply to #25801) Subject: RE: Hauling other peoples horses
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Posts: 27 Location: Delta, B.C., Canada
Our trainer, who also owns the barn we stable at, has a commercial drivers licence and plate because if you're hauling overweight and you only have a passenger licence and something happens, you're not covered. I don't know if the weight allowances in Canada and the States are the same, but in Canada it's around 10,200 pounds. When the kids are eventing they have to belong to Horse Council which also covers the loss of someone elses horse if you're hauling it.
Posted 2005-05-29 7:15 PM (#25808 - in reply to #25305) Subject: RE: Hauling other peoples horses
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A similar situation when hauling neighbors' kids to soccer, ballet, band, whatever practice. Neighbors themselves to work or the airport, or their parents for dialysis or chemo. I doubt that I'll stop doing those trips either, liability issues can rear their heads when they will.
So hossies ?, well its just another liability risk - I'll continue to take it (-:
Posted 2005-06-01 5:38 PM (#25967 - in reply to #25305) Subject: RE: Hauling other peoples horses
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Posts: 736 Location: Western WA
I will "carpool" with someone who has similar equipment to mine, if we are going to the same event, and I know them and their horse's manners well, but that's it. I just have a standing rule of not loaning out things.
We recently moved to a rural area so we would have room for horses, and it amazes me how many of our "city friends" have assumed it would be ok to store their campers, boats, etc. on our property just because we have room. We have just started telling everyone we didn't move to a rural area to look at everyone else's stuff and we aren't storing anything for anybody.
When I was in high school my parents loaned our horse trailer to some friends who had bought a horse for their daughter and needed to go pick it up. The had the audacity to rewire the trailer electrical plug to fit their rig and then didn't change it back when they returned it - and didn't tell my parents. First trip out the turn signal activated the brakes, etc. it was a real mess. You just never know what will happen to your rig if you loan it out.
Posted 2005-06-01 5:49 PM (#25971 - in reply to #25967) Subject: RE: Hauling other peoples horses
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We recently moved to a rural area so we would have room for horses, and it amazes me how many of our "city friends" have assumed it would be ok to store their campers, boats, etc. on our property just because we have room. We have just started telling everyone we didn't move to a rural area to look at everyone else's stuff and we aren't storing anything for anybody.
We have some friends that thought that just because we had some land, that they could come out and burn their leaves and mail (with personal info). I came home one day and they had a HUGE fire in the middle of my pasture. It hadn't rained in 2 months, I about had a heart attack. Fortunately my neighbour was out there with all his waterhoses and I hauled out mine and we put it out. I couldn't believe that they would have the nerve to do something like that without even asking.
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