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In case you aren't trolling, I'm talking about horse trailers that anyone familiar with horses would understand.
Also comparable trailers.
None of these should be driven around in a city regularly. These trucks are not made for commuters or small spaces. They are for large farm, construction, and other work that requires more than a light truck but not a semi or tractor. They are comparable to delivery trucks and vans. In fact, large vans are just enclosed versions of the trucks. This was the van version of the F350 of its day.
Sorry I didn't intend to troll. I've never seen one of those things in your picture. I don't even think they exist in Europe. If you were to transport more than two or three horses here, you'd probably use something like this (but I'm not much of a horse guy so I'm not sure):
For the hay bales, you'd just use your tractor (they can drive as fast as 80km/h nowadays) unless you're really going for a loooong distance. In that case you'd use some kind of small truck and trailer:
But that's rarely necessary anyway. Why would I want to deliver hay across the country when the local hay is just the same.
Texas: nearest town is 200mi away
So what? Your local farmer drives 200 miles (and back) to deliver 10 bales of hay to the next town instead of commissioning a truckage company that has the right equipment to transport three times the load at half the cost as they can use the truck to transport something else on the way back? Don't your farmers have something more useful to do with their time?