How It Works
Enter trip duration, departure time, and optionally customize the stop interval and duration. Default settings are a stop every 3.5 hours of driving with each stop lasting 20 minutes. The planner generates a schedule showing every rest stop with exact start and end times, then calculates your adjusted arrival time including all rest breaks. During each stop, open trailer windows/vents for fresh air, offer water in small amounts, allow horses to lower their heads to clear respiratory secretions, do a visual check of legs, bandages, hay, and water, and do not unload unless stopping overnight. Export to ICS calendar for phone reminders or CSV for your trip binder.
Transport Safety
Before the trip: obtain a health certificate (required for interstate travel), Coggins test (within 12 months, some states 6 months), inspect trailer (tires, lights, floor, hitch, breakaway brake), load hay nets, water buckets, and emergency kit, and bandage legs with shipping boots or standing wraps. During transport: drive smoothly avoiding hard braking and sharp turns, monitor ambient temperature, stop on level ground when possible, and never park in direct sun with horses loaded. After arrival: unload carefully as horses may be stiff, offer small amounts of water frequently for the first 2 hours, monitor temperature, appetite, and manure for 48 hours for shipping fever risk, and take rectal temperature twice daily for 3 days post-arrival. Shipping fever is pleuropneumonia from prolonged head elevation during transport, with signs appearing 24–72 hours after arrival including fever over 102°F, nasal discharge, and depression — this is a veterinary emergency.
