Vans.

[sphexx]

Totally agree. One of the reasons a van appealed to me was that the dogs could be totally seperated from the cab with fixed ply boards. I will probably go down the estate route now though as the van option is a bit of a minefiled, so a cage or guard will definately be used. I've used guards previously that fix to hard points of the car and I would probably do this again, or some kind of ply seperation, which would be more effective when it comes to supressing the barking.

A very good point made.

Do you think some sort of soft material (carpet?) between 'load' and driver would be more effective at blocking the noise? I have a rubber sheet (thick) that I roll out over the floor when folding the seats down - for mud as my dogs are small and not noisy but I would imagine it would help with noise too by stopping it bouncing off the hard flooring.

 

[Dale.]

It may take the edge off it. Maybe carpet lined ply would be just the ticket too. Food for thought.