I will tolerate some partially PITA behavior out of a horse. Thrashing and kicking around in my trailer isn't one of them. My better half had an appendix gelding that was kicking in my trailer i still have a mark on my shin to prove how displeased i was at that. I forgot how tall that SOB was.
The only "problem horse" we had was a 16 year old gelding that had won the NRHA derby and pretty much anything else we entered it in from the Roping to the cow horse to the western riding. He would kick like a SOB in the trailer the second it stopped. Hobbles and a kicking chains stopped that.
Back to the original topic i haul 50,000 miles a year, i have a dualie. My only reason for that is if i blow a rear tire half asleep at 3 AM I'm way less likely to have a disaster. The dualie is more stable and just handles the bigger pin weights better. I'm smart enough not to try and take it where i wish i would have bought a 4x4 or an SRW. My 2 x 4 DRW and big 6 horse handle snow and freezing rain pretty well with the truck shod in Michelin LTX M/S tires. Dad sold the 330 Pete because it was too much of a PITA when we got where we were going to take into town or to the hotels but it pulled like a freight train.
The only "problem horse" we had was a 16 year old gelding that had won the NRHA derby and pretty much anything else we entered it in from the Roping to the cow horse to the western riding. He would kick like a SOB in the trailer the second it stopped. Hobbles and a kicking chains stopped that.
Back to the original topic i haul 50,000 miles a year, i have a dualie. My only reason for that is if i blow a rear tire half asleep at 3 AM I'm way less likely to have a disaster. The dualie is more stable and just handles the bigger pin weights better. I'm smart enough not to try and take it where i wish i would have bought a 4x4 or an SRW. My 2 x 4 DRW and big 6 horse handle snow and freezing rain pretty well with the truck shod in Michelin LTX M/S tires. Dad sold the 330 Pete because it was too much of a PITA when we got where we were going to take into town or to the hotels but it pulled like a freight train.