Summary: "Poor creatures," is your first thought, as an overcrowded
cattle truck trundles past you on the highway on its way either from the port or to the slaughterhouse.
The biggest headline grabber, picked up by the national media, was the charmer who suggested to Tanni that disabled people using trains should be put in a
cattle truck.
The year began with a moan about
cattle truck conditions on trains across North Wales - as fares leaped.
John's experience as a stockman in the far north inspired the story of the left behind calf, rescued with great energy by his mother and father as they burst forth from the
cattle truck. Gavin realised his passion for art and stories while in prison, and his story of Cranky the Crocodile gives a north Australian take on the theme of 'are you my mother?', separated from the rest of his siblings at birth.
General secretary of the RMT trade union, Bob Crow, said: "This report is an insult to passengers who have been fleeced by fare hikes and
cattle truck conditions.
A bleating goat was quickly pulled out from the SUV -- that was apparently doubling up as a
cattle truck -- by a visibly shaken passenger.
They are driven to the fiesta sites in a
cattle truck with their horns already tethered with thick rope.
The armed men loaded the migrants onto the back of an old red
cattle truck and drove them to safe houses.
The revelation that last year's big scandal of bodies being stored on the floor of a hospital's chapel hasn't changed much - they are now stored in something that looks like a
cattle truck. And new figures which show hospital trust chief executives have been given thumping pay rises, 10 times that of nurses.
"A truck would stop, like a
cattle truck. They would all get off the back and all assemble...They would pour petrol on the road, set it alight, stand back, throw bottles full of petrol or diesel into it, which would then explode," he said.