A cart horse - a relic of the past?

Caterpillar transport has long been not massively used for the transport of goods and passengers. Although in rural areas, in regions with bad roads without a hard surface, it can still be found. A horse-drawn cart is also used in the private sector and for on-farm transport on farms, in the organization of field work, in the harvesting of forests.

Separately, it is possible to distinguish the organization of deliveries by horse-drawn transport of passengers along tourist routes in the city. The development of this area of entrepreneurship requires a settlement, since more and more accidents involving such transport, and the current regulatory framework has long been obsolete.

Horse cart: definition

This type of transport involves the use of animals as draft power. It can provide both freight and passenger transportation. The name is defined by a short leather loop (ridge), with which the shafts (wooden guides of the cart) are connected to both the arc and the harness on both sides.

This design provides the necessary rigidity to the vehicle. In the variant of the wagon, without longer protruding fences, the hogs are longer. They are called traces and are attached directly to the trailer. This design does not provide rigidity of the coupling. The trailer by inertia can, when stopped, continue to coast down, and therefore must be equipped with a brake.

In most cases, a cart with horses is suggested for horse-drawn transport, although other animals may be used as a tax.

Features

Depending on the design, the trolley may have one or two axles. In winter, in places with a stable snow cover, wheeled wagons are replaced by sledges. You can harness one animal, a couple, three. In a number of cases, a train is encountered in a train, when several such pairs follow one after the other, being in a series connection. In this case, the first animals are leading, they are controlled, and the others follow.

Depending on the design of the body distinguish: carts, carriages, gigs (two-wheeled vehicle), baby carriages. In body shape: phaethons, cabriolets, vans. On purpose, among them, cargo can be defined for passenger transportations: tourist, ceremonial or ceremonial, hearse.

Animals

Despite the fact that the horse-drawn cart among the horse transport is the most common, the force of deer, dogs, mules, donkeys, oxen and buffaloes is still used as a tax. Such vehicles are moving slowly, on the road to drivers of cars they have to overtake. In this connection, animal animals can pose a potential danger due to unpredictable reactions to changes in the situation (loud signal, sudden or dangerous maneuver in overtaking, counter-traveling of oversized equipment, blinding of headlights at night).

In the plans of the developers of the new norms for horse-drawn transport, there are also requirements for the content of "draft force". It is necessary to regulate provisions prohibiting the beating of animals and other tortures that exceed the permissible impact of management and are capable of harming them.

Horse cart: control

As a road user, any vehicle must be registered with registration. A cart is equipped with a sign with an account number located on the rear of the body. Normally, there is a parking brake or stops to prevent spontaneous movement in areas with a steep gradient.

The driver must supervise the animals by being in the wagon or holding them under a bridle. The transported oversized cargo must be marked, in addition to lighting in the dark. Animals tied to the cart can be located on the right side (closer to the roadside). Gallop in settlements is prohibited, as well as traffic on improved coverage if there is a dirt road nearby.

Compliance with the rules

To go on public roads on this type of transport is possible (if there is no prohibiting sign) on the right lane or roadside, without causing inconvenience to pedestrians. To turn or turn, connected with the departure to the opposite side of the traffic, there are special signals (hand or whip), which the driver must submit before the maneuver.

The cart with horses is not equipped with light indicators, but the body must have reflectors of the established pattern. To manage horse-drawn vehicles can be people with 14 years of age who know the rules of the road. And although at the moment to get a driver's license is not necessary, the responsibility for violation of traffic rules is provided.

Legislators plan to increase it at times to reduce the likelihood of management of this type of transport by persons without proper training and especially in a state of intoxication. There is a need to distinguish among violators as a manager of a horse-drawn vehicle (driver), and owner, if work is supposed to be hired.