Updates & News

• Transporting horses in Canada: Is this animal fit for the trip? CFIA (Apr 08)
• Livestock Transport Requirements in Canada, CFIA brochure (Apr 08)
• Exporting breeding cattle to Mexico (Apr 08)
• Livestock Transportation Conference Report (American Meat Institute) (Feb 08)
• Teaching the trucker, a course that certifies transporters Cattlemen Magazine (Mar 08)
• Input needed to study cattle transportation practices in Alberta (Mar 08)
• Livestock transporter defends industry (Mar 08)
• An Analysis of Commercial Livestock Truck Accidents in Canada & the United States, a report to improve the care of livestock in transport (Oct 07)
• New Requirements for Transporting Cattle for handling, transporting & disposal of cattle carcasses. CFIA (Jul 07)

Global livestock transport news

• Europe cracks down on animal transport (Feb 08)
• Competence of Certificate required for EU animal transport (Feb 08)
• Veterinaria Italiana 2008 - Vol 44 (1) Jan-Mar, Welfare aspects of the long distance transportation of animals  
  • An education & training programme for livestock transporters in Canada, K Schwarzkopf Genswein, D Haley & T O’Byrne
  • Fatigue: a major cause of commercial livestock truck accidents, J Woods & T Grandin
  • The Canadian approach to science-based regulation of the long distance transport of animals, G Doonan & M Appelt
  • Engineering & performance standards parameters for long distance road transport in the United States: the special case of horses, C Stull