Re: [RC] health certificates/Coggins - Truman Prevatt
rnbianchi wrote:
I drove from California to Maryland three years ago with
my three horses and two dogs. The only state that required me to stop
and show my paperwork was Arizona. There was a truck stop (Agriculture
and/or weigh station?) that said all trucks including pickups hauling
animals must stop. It amazed me that no other states cared at all what
I was hauling in my three horse slant load. Arizona only looked at the
paper work and asked if the horses were mine; never checked the horses
to see if they matched the descriptions on the paperwork, or if they
looked healthy. I found it kind of upsetting really.
You will stop in FL. You cannot cross the Suwannee river without
passing an ag station - interstate of small road doesn't matter. When
I went thorough AZ they only cared about the hay I had with me. They
were worried about fire ants coming in from Texas. I have been stopped
on the highway in GA (twice once he pulled in behind me at a rest stop
and once he pulled me over on I75) to check papers. I've been stopped
on the highway in KY. One time on 411 in Tennessee there was a
roadblock and they check my horses. I expect they were looking for
something else but they did check the horses.
Other than that I've driven as far North as Michigan as far Northwest
as Idaho and as far Southwest as Utah - and most states just don't seem
to care. I expect it has a lot to do with money. The GA ag officer told
me the state only had two or three inspectors. FL's Ag law enforcement
is a fairly large effort - but that cost money.
Truman
-- “Many people consider the things government does for them to be
social
progress but they regard the things government does for others as
socialism
“Many people consider the
things government
does for them to be social progress but they regard the things
government does
for others as socialism.” Earl Warren, former Chief Justice of the US
Supreme
Court
