How can you keep livestock bunched together during their transportation?
- Crowd them in with other cargo.
- Use false bulkheads. ✓
- Tie them together.
- Place food in strategic places.
Answer: B. Use false bulkheads.
Use false bulkheads to keep livestock bunched together when the load is not full.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says livestock can move around in a trailer, and that movement can make turns difficult and cause a collision or injure the animals. When you have less than a full load, it tells you to install false bulkheads so the animals stay grouped. That is the stated method for limiting how much they can shift. The passage also says to slow down on curves because even grouped animals can lean and shift the vehicle’s centre of gravity.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Crowd them in with other cargo. — Crowding livestock in with other cargo is not the handbook’s method; it says to use false bulkheads to limit movement when the load is not full.
- C. Tie them together. — Tying animals together is not mentioned in the passage and is not the stated way to keep them bunched.
- D. Place food in strategic places. — Putting food in strategic places is not mentioned as a way to keep livestock grouped; the passage names false bulkheads.
Remember it
Think of false bulkheads as dividers that stop animals from spreading out in a partly loaded trailer.