What Does Your Horse Trailer Want To Say?
Every time my friend pull into a horse camp where the rigs are parked so people can camp and ride, He see the dandiest things painted on the semi trailers.
The sides of many horse trailers, both gooseneck and bumper pull, are painted with the name of the owners/riders. comes to mind. Some are plain type, a few have a logo or cartoon picture.
Some add a home base location under the names, much like boats have the name of the port painted under the name. It’s always a toot to “ride the camp” looking at what everyone else is driving and/or pulling. He have seen vistas of forests and sunsets and even brands.
He have also seen some with the front painted, either the gooseneck part that sits over the pulling truck or the top part of the bumper pull that shows when meeting another vehicle. That’s nice, but If I did that I can imagine how long it would take each trip to keep my name “bug free”.
The big billboard, however, is on the rear. The part the people following you have no choice but to read. What is there, more than anywhere else says what you are all about.
My friend followed a big gooseneck into a camp recently with both back doors covered in shiny chrome or stainless. The sun was just right and the glare almost blinded me. Who knows if there was anything to read, my friend was having trouble keeping the laser beam of the sun out of my eyes. When my friend buy a new one you can bet the chrome won’t beon the back doors.
One of the first rear-door billboards my friend ever saw, said “Stay Back – Show Horses” It was a two horse tag along in need of some fender body work and a new coat of paint. The wheels didn’t match either. I can bet what kind of show those horses puton.
The truck stop is a good place for ideas. They also have safety signs and tape. That red and white reflecting tape looks good on the back, especially at night. My friend saw a back door the other day that had one of those big 18 wheeler signs on it “Caution Wide Turns” with a picture of a car crashing into a left turning truck and trailer.
Another one said “If you can’t see my mirrors, I can’t see you”. My friend like that. How about “Live Cargo on Board – Horses” and “Please stay back – Don’t be what you see”?
Then there was the one that had two words across the whole width of the trailer “Caution Horses”. Each word must have been a foot high and three and a half feet long. But wait, there’s more. Underneath that was a monster picture of Yosemite Sam, the Warner Brothers cartoon character with both rootin’ tootin’ pistols pointed at my friend and underneath two more really big words “Back Off”. That told my friend a lot about the owners. My friend found it refreshing, informative and with a sense of humor. My friend never met them but he can bet that’s the kind of people they were.
What your horse trailer want to says can say a lot about you, and may be a factor in whether or nor your camp neighbors come over to introduce themselves.
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