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Does any railroad still transport livestock?

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Greyhounds, If it is possible for railroads to fan out into the many small farms all over the triangle at a phone call's notice then go for it. Many Bull Haulers running hammer down and hat on the mirror will keep the beef plants going. You gotta stand back when they come thru. The beef plants are places that are not happy. There are at any time many reefer drivers corraled in the bullpen usually a few steps from security. The security is under a great deal of pressure from the drivers demanding when the loads are ready, dispatchers demanding time frames so they can make a schedule and cattlemen demanding cattle right heah right now from the bull haulers. After having waited anywhere from an hour for a trailer that is LOADED and wasting time.... to 3 days waiting on a load to be loaded on the trailer... no one is going to waste any time. You got to go. There are probably 4 bullhaulers an hour coming to the plant and at any time several hundred truckers waiting on loads during peak times. How fast is the work? He he.. the left lane of the interstate is considered the Monfort Lane. (Used to be long ago) because only $1.00 trucks capable of 100+ mph with beef boxed or swinging would lord it over the rest of us. One saturday I left Garden City in the morning and was in Bakersfield CA at 8 am monday with another half day to go before Salinas who have been riding the telephones to my company DEMANDING that load ASAP or they will find someone else who can. The demands grow strident by the hour. By the time you are on the customers property your team has been threatened with anything from ternimation, execution to starvation wages hauling unimportant cargo with open ended delivery times.
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