I would have to say that some of these tips are not just for when you are travelling with your horse, but for pretty much any time you get on the road! Great tips! I voted for you. I have a new article about how some Olympic Medalists used Gangnam Style to raise funds for charity. Please come read it and vote! By the way,don't forget that you can vote for yourself.

A good fundraiser is to find a city college, or technical school that has auto repair, and ask them to share a fundraiser, and get horsemen to bring in their trailers for a professional, technological computer based going over. Especially the flooring and bottom welds. My family has CHP officers and it is a HORROR the tales of trailers where the flooring has given out and the damage to the horses. Especially if you have purchased a used trailer, have it checked out. WE had the entire bottom of our trailer taken out, and rewelded with a thicker new frame, since we had it off, we said, go heavier metal, and new flooring and new mats when we bought it. It probably would have been OK, since we were only hauling in town to the park from time to time, but why take chances. Also, go over the entire trailer for places that can cause injuries. Horse kick and hit the walls, and bolts shake loose, and pieces of metal stick out. We also make sure the tail pads are replaced or at least we make sure the horses have extra padded tail guards on while traveling. It is not fun for horses to have no tail to brush off flies, and it is NOT fun to have to show a horse with no tail.......It happens to everyone, even Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, American Pharaoh was missing some of his tail........they think another horse bit it off while out to pasture.