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title: How to Spot an Equo Driver
description: Horses are born genetically hardwired to resist going into trailers. It’s not only unnatural; it’s life threatening for a horse to go into a cave or a trailer.
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# [How to Spot an Equo Driver](https://www.ridewithequo.com/blog/how-to-spot-driver)

 Written by [Jake Schueller](https://www.ridewithequo.com/blog/author/jake-schueller) | 30 Dec 2016

They don’t show up in uniform. They don’t drive a trademark fleet of vehicles. They don’t even have a company sticker on the driver’s side rear windshield.

[The drivers of Equo](https://www.ridewithequo.com/drive-with-equo-and-be-your-own-boss), the new on-demand horse transportation app, are a diverse crew of horse people who share a few key traits in common that can’t be identified by appearance alone. **Traits like proven safe-driving track records **and responsible truck and trailer ownership practices.

**That said, there are a *few* ways to tell whether the truck and trailer pulling into your stable is with Equo or not.**

Did your driver just streak down the driveway at 120mph, pull the emergency break and skid sideways into a perfect parallel parking position in front of your barn like a scene out *The Fast and the Furious*?

*Not an Equo driver.*

Is there a six-pack of beer on the arm rest of his truck and/or a personally engraved flask in her inside coat pocket? Does he or she smell like alcohol? Were you asked to blow into a breathalyzer to start their truck?

*Not an Equo driver*. (Not even in Texas.)

Did he pull in with a low-rider truck tricked out with after-market hydraulic pumps that can bounce eight feet in the air with the flick of a switch?

*Not an Equo driver*.

Can you hear the bass from their sick sound system two miles away?

*Not an Equo driver*.

Is the dash of her truck littered with parking tickets, driving infractions, and/or court date summons?

*Not an Equo driver*.

Are there holes rusted through the floorboards of his trailer that have been hastily covered with plywood, duct tape, and broken dreams?

*Not an Equo driver*.

Does she carry an assorted collection of whips and lunge lines for “loading purposes” in the back of her half ton?

*Not an Equo driver.*

Does he or she have a “Ride or Die” neck tattoo and/or bumper sticker?

*Meh, may be an Equo driver. *

**Remember, every time you schedule a trip with Equo you’ll automatically receive photos and relevant details about your driver AND his/her rig *before* they arrive, so you know exactly how and with who your horse is travelling. At Equo, that means a pre-vetted, safety-inspected truck and trailer operated by an experienced driver.**

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