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"I personally think the double-stack trailer being used to convey horses ... has to be changed,"
Representative Jere Schuler from Lancaster County, New Holland's Representative
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PA Horse Transport Law Cards
Download a card and carry in your car. Help enforce PA law banning the use of double deck trailers to transport any horse, no matter what its final destination!
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Act 64, the PA Horse Transport Bill went into effect on August 25, 2001 making double deck trailers illegal in PA to transport horses under Title 18, Section 5511(e)1. PA law applies to all horses, no matter what their final destination. Rodeo stock contractors, low end horse dealers and "killer buyers" have been known to use double deck trailers to transport horses.
The federal law, The 1996 Commercial Transportation of Horses To Slaughter Act, will not ban the use of inhumane double deck cattle trailers until 2007, eleven years after it was passed, and it only applies to horses being transported to slaughter. This law with it's"..guidelines to regulate.." and civil penalties if any, will do nothing more than legitimize the cruel and inhumane transport of horses to slaughter. Horses will continue to go 28 hours without food, water and rest. Pregnant mares will be slaughtered with their full term foals being "born" on the slaughterhouse floor.
PROPERTY OF THE CALIFORNIA EQUINE COUNCIL. Nose Deck LoadingThe horses are loaded through the rear door of the trailer, (3' W x 8' H) up the pullout ramp, through the top tier into the nose section ( fifth wheel) of the trailer, via a drop down ramp. |
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This picture is in the front section of the bottom deck of a double deck cattle trailer. The drop down ramp pictured in the upper left hand corner of the picture is in the down position. The ramp leads from the top deck of the trailer, down into the nose deck or fifth wheel area of the trailer. Notice the exposed metal floor.
The gate to the nose deck is closed after that section is loaded and the ramp pulled up to start the loading of the top tier or deck. |
Bottom Tier Loading |
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This is the rear of the trailer looking into the doghouse section of the trailer. You can look down into the bottom deck of the trailer. Horses "jump" down through this opening! It is easy to see why they receive head, eye, and back injuries. The next photo shows the bottom deck of the trailer looking towards the doghouse. |
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This photo is of the bottom deck of the trailer looking toward the rear section of the trailer. The square opening (just to the right of the center of photo), leads up the ramp into the doghouse section of the trailer. The horses enter the trailer through the rear door of the trailer, into the doghouse, and then down into the bottom deck. |
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