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Location: Florida.. | TrailGirl - 2014-03-21 11:10 AM I haven't used them for 4 years, but to come on a public forum and slander a company, they could sue you if any bit of what you said is not true. Uh...She didn't name the company...I doubt Porky is her real name....she doesn't even have a specific location listed...I'd say she is covered there. Any company that were to try to sue must be guilty as charged if they make the assumption that they were the complany being maligned.
How does it go?... "The guilty Dog Barks Loudest?" 
Not when it comes to a professional company and there are so many misinformations and not facts when it comes to internet.. For Instance.. becasue this porky posts this.. people are assuming its true and want name and etc.. but havent the clue if it is true? understand??? this is NOT directed at Porky.. this is in general..
but you got her back dont you all because she said so..but you dont have the facts and wasnt there..
my point is....
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| My horse is my number one priority. Im waiting for my gelding to be dropped off before i release his name so no retaliation happens. I have screenshots of everything ive said. Theres more thats happened, but i didnt mention it because that info was disclosed over the phone and i have no physical proof. Im being very careful with this.... i will message names as as proof if wanted once my gelding is in my care.
I am NOT trying to slander anyone. i SIMPLY dont want this to happen to anyone else..and i know im not the first complaint, but i dont want someone else to have to make another complaint, and have their horse hurt or killed in possesion. If i can help protect someone else, i sure will! |
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Location: Great NW | Hope he arrived in good condition. Major customer service issue. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Why did they unload horses on the shoulder of an interstate highway? How are you finding out all this? I would be upset to, but I would not be saying anything neg untill my horse gets home. |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | cheryl makofka - 2014-03-21 9:06 AM
porky - 2014-03-21 9:26 AM
I had booked a shipper in October to deliver a horse for me they had a very impressive web site a friend said they were good. After being jerked around by them for a month and told many stories about why they hadn't yet picket up my horse ( which I later found out to be lies) .....a death in the family, truck troubles..... I got digging further and googled " bad experience with ------ equine hauling" wow there was a tonne of responses. I sent the shipper a letter firing her that morning and lone behold within 5 minutes of receiving the letter the driver called me to say he was on site ready to pick up my horse. They had been down there the whole time waiting to fill their load meanwhile telling me lies to hold me over so I didn't hire someone else. I was a huge inconvenience for myself and the horse owner. I ended up having to board the horse out somewhere else until I could get a hauler I could trust to bring her home. If anyone wants to know the name of the hauler I had the bad experience with please pm me, I'd be happy to share. Chevy girl, please pm me who your using I'm interested if its the same person.
I think I know who you are talking about as I had asked for a quote she didn't get back to me for about a month. When she did call me she said there was a death in the family. I doubt she lied about that.
How did you determine that there wasn't a death in the family?
I have had 2 horses hauled by that company and had great service, I haven't used them for 4 years, but to come on a public forum and slander a company, they could sue you if any bit of what you said is not true.
First of all I did not mention any names. "They"can sue away, whoever
" they" are. After speaking to multiple people over the past 6 months I've determined that this person has claimed several deaths in the family over the past 4 or more years.....so either this person has a relative die every month, or it's a great excuse that pulls on people's heart strings that they will not question. I always like to give people the benefit of the doubt but to run business in way that you are constantly lying to cover your tracks (saying your in canada when you are in fact in Texas waiting to fill your load) is not right . Our horses are our babies and if me helping out anyone so that they are not in the same situation that I was in, I am happy to do that. After doing my research on the shipper I soon learned my experience was one of many bad ones with the shipper, so I ask myself who's the common denominator. My lawyer advised me on how to proceed in this situation, but mine was easier to deal with than yours Chevy girl because although I had paid my horse was not yet on board. |
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Location: North Dakota | Some things are just not worth the stress it will take to complain because it will likely go in one ear and out the other! Just don't use them again and let everyone know how they treated you. Bad customer service will keep them from being very successful anyway because people will not use them a second time. We purchased a truck from a dealer in Dallas, they agreed to put a hitch in it for us. A week later we picked the truck up and I compared the miles on the picture I took on my phone of the actual miles and they had put 560 miles on MY truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I pointed it out and the owner and salesman were making excuses, I just turned around and left. It was not worth the stress of dealing with. the truck was not damaged and I just did not want to listen to BS. As long as your horse is fine just be thankful I guess. |
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Location: Wide open spaces, Canada. | angelica - 2014-03-21 12:34 PM
Some things are just not worth the stress it will take to complain because it will likely go in one ear and out the other! Just don't use them again and let everyone know how they treated you. Bad customer service will keep them from being very successful anyway because people will not use them a second time. We purchased a truck from a dealer in Dallas, they agreed to put a hitch in it for us. A week later we picked the truck up and I compared the miles on the picture I took on my phone of the actual miles and they had put 560 miles on MY truck!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I pointed it out and the owner and salesman were making excuses, I just turned around and left. It was not worth the stress of dealing with. the truck was not damaged and I just did not want to listen to BS. As long as your horse is fine just be thankful I guess.Â
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| daisycake123 - 2014-03-21 5:33 AM
Get you horse to your house and unloaded check your state once they are unloaded you can barter. We had and expensice car damaged they unloaded my stupid husband was going to pay the full price i call the shippers main number cause he wont gonna do it they paid to get our car fixed.
How long has horse been on trailer from the time he was picked up until his arrival??
Get him unloaded and turned out in a locked pen and then talk to main office and pay only half .... dial 911 if you get any flack from driver ....
HAS HE ARRIVED YET ... |
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| Update: he arrived safe and sound. Looks like he bumped his hip good on the trailer, but he will survive that. Hes turned out and moving great and hapoy, so it worked out. My tack didnt fair so well, i have quite a bit of saddle damage. Cosmetic, so its usable, but still upset about that! He gave us a 200 discount, probably coulda got more, just releieved that he made it here. Driver is probably facing hell now. Got out of his truck and started smoking some medical marijuana. So be it, to each their own, but im so not ok with a driver under the influence. He was probably high his whike trip and thats why there wasso many mishaps, wh knows. But i called him in. |
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Location: Colorado plains standing on a goat head! | Chevy_Girl_09 - 2014-03-21 1:30 PM Update: he arrived safe and sound. Looks like he bumped his hip good on the trailer, but he will survive that. Hes turned out and moving great and hapoy, so it worked out. My tack didnt fair so well, i have quite a bit of saddle damage. Cosmetic, so its usable, but still upset about that! He gave us a 200 discount, probably coulda got more, just releieved that he made it here. Driver is probably facing hell now. Got out of his truck and started smoking some medical marijuana. So be it, to each their own, but im so not ok with a driver under the influence. He was probably high his whike trip and thats why there wasso many mishaps, wh knows. But i called him in.
I am so glad your horse made it in good shape! Sorry about the tack.
If that guy is a DOT driver he shouldn't have any kind of marijuana, medicinal or not that is against DOT regs. Also, many people don't understand that if he is not DOT, it is the employer's policy that dictates whether any marijuana is acceptable. Let alone the fact that he is driving anything larger than a tricycle under the influence! Scary dude! |
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| Sooo...now you gonna tell us who it was, so we dont have the same problem? |
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| Slander requires names and untrue specifics.
I thought BHW had a transportation 'bad guy' type of list? We used to discuss the good, bad, and ugly about transporters often. How else does a horse person get that type of information?
I worked exclusively with one company and LOVED them for years and years. Then they stood me up picking up a pregnant mare headed to OK for breeding. Timing was critical since she was getting under the 30 day mark to due date. It took me almost 3 weeks to line up another ride and by then I'd missed the window to ship. I had to pay another hefty booking fee to carry the contract over another year. I never did get to vent my situation to the first company, they simply went *POOF*. And they'd hauled horses for me for nearly 10 years!
I appreciate all positive and negative feedback about horse related products. If we can't share that here on BHW, then what use is the board? Gossip? |
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Location: Where I am happiest | It doesnt matter if your a DOT driver or not, driving under the influence is against the law period and it does not matter if it's alcohol or medical marijuana. It is just double whammy bad if he's a commercial hauler.
I sure hope you called the sheriff as soon as he left. I sure wouldnt want my horse in that rig being operated by someone stoned! |
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Location: Near San Antonio, TX | SOOOO glad he made it ok! Now you can rest and enjoy your buddy!! I am sure that was super stressful. |
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Location: NC | If you had a contract with them and they clearly breached it, why did you pay ANYTHING?
I would've taken my horse, told him to get off my property, and called the Sheriff if I had any issues.
I wouldn't have paid a dime. I would've told them they could take it to court if they wanted to. All of the things you've said here are UNACCEPTABLE. And then to have damaged the horse AND the tack AND you've seen him smoking weed before he DROVE again, I wouldn't have paid a thing. Period.
I'm glad they finally delivered your horse and he seems to be ok. I would keep a close eye on him for a few days though. Lord knows what kind of effects being penned up in the trailer for that long could have on him. Poor pony. I'm sure he's glad to be outside again.
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | Yeah I'd still like to know who you used! So I can avoid them. |
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Location: Ky | Not only would I not have paid them I would asked them to pay me for damages. If they refused then we would go to court. And I would win in court. There is no excuse for that kind of treatment of livestock. They have to held to a higher stand ard than someone hauling non perishable items.
If you paid them by check you can still stop the payment.
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Location: Nowhere Special | This sounds about like the same experince I had shipping my gelding from SD to TX. I used Joe Estrada and have no problem saying who I used.
Pick up days were off by several days, no big deal, drop off days off by several days BIG DEAL.. My horse was on route for over 5 days and lost over 150 pounds. He was all over the country and even broke down in San Antonio (keep in mind he was coming to fort worth, was in weatherford on Monday and broke down in San antoinio on tuesday) I had no idea my horse was on his way south to San Antonio and Joe had fallen off the face of the earth. 10 hours passed with no contact on the day he was suppose to drop him off I was about to call the sherriff in weatherford and report my horse as stolen.. Which would have done me no good since the horse was standing somewhere in san antonio supposedly with no cell service. Long story short it was a nightmare! I have shipped horses all over the country and never had anything even close to this happen. Hind sight this shipper has done this numerous times to numerous people and I wish I had known before hand. I ended up over $2000 lost in lost wages from all the days I took off work on drop off days that he did not show. I paid him what the gas would cost one way from SD to my place in Tx and called it good. even though I think that was to much with the amount of stress it cost me and the extra I am having to pay to put the weight back on my horse. |
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Location: Florida.. | here it is.. Id be checking out reviews before shipping now.. and post the company. I only commented above explaining the other comment and reasons.. i said in general.. http://forums.barrelhorseworld.com/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=264528&start=1 |
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Location: Somewhere between raising hell and Amazing Grace | Glad your horse arrived safe and sound. Sucks about the saddle, but it's easily replaceable as opposed to your horse :(
I guess I've always been lucky. The last two horses I shipped, first one had plans for April (years ago). Haulers called in Feb and offered half off if I put him on that trip (they had a cancellation). They were on time to pick him up, were supposed to drop him off at 6am.
They arrived at 330-4am but instead of waking us up, they napped in their truck in the drivway until we came out (they could have just woke us up but I think they were needing a short nap. Great guys!
Second time, was just calling around for prices, one company had a rig leaving Texas two days later, gave me a great price, seller was able to get paperwork together fast, and he arrived safe, sound, on time, and great communication with the driver the whole way. |
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