“Bull haulers” also take personal pride in how smoothly they operate their equipment – smooth shifts, stops and starts means the cattle keep their feet. A panic stop can mean knocking a bunch of them down, and that isn’t good. Long trips require frequent inspections looking for downed cattle and getting them back up – again so the animals aren’t harmed.

I’d certainly be interested in your livestock diagnostic abilities seeing cattle through the vent holes in a cow pot driving in the next lane. And, as for cleaning out the trailers – let us consider a “fat” cow hauler – who may haul five or six loads a day. Cattle urinate and defecate no matter where they are, so there can be a lot of turnover in that trailer in just a few days. Most slaughter houses require frequent clean outs for their haulers.

But, I doubt any of this will change your preconceived notions, and was a waste of time. Oh well – I’m gonna keep eating meat and supporting the beef industry, so deal with it.

Yes, people do wash the trailers out and put down (most generally) either sawdust or shavings for the animals to make it safer for them to be hauled. There are laws that have to be adhered to as far as cruelty is concerned. If you are vegetarian and for animal rights, then you already know this.

I don’t see how you think most livestock looks sick or dead? Are you talking about the ones being hauled? The ones newly born? The ones grazing in a field?

The animals themselves are not a paycheck to those HAULING them. They HAUL them – period. That is where the paycheck comes from – HAULING them.