sorry typo,

i have travel merchant just standing in novac with his radiated cow in front of the gas station alone.

and he is not moving anywhere. anybody knows why ? how can we make it move ?

and i don't see his 2 guard either. strange.

Sometimes they just decide to settle down. It's dangerous out on the road you know.

Nah, it's just a bug. There's no way I know over to get them going again. I have one perma-parked in the motel parking lot at Novac. I don't mind it though, it means another merchant I can find to unload my junk.

Theres a mod on nexus that fixes this bug. Think its called travel merchant fix.

I don' mind if they stay in one place, but mine thier inventory and caps never improves.

can reverse pickpocketing to give them better armor or gun? i need them to walk around to gather junk for me.

If your on a console your out of luck from anything easy. But if your on the pc you can click on ` to bring up the console, click on the merchant and the brahmin to write down their ref id. Next go to 188 trading post and bring back the console commands. Type in Prid ref id , moveto player . Ref id is what you wrote. Do it both for the merchant and the brahmin.
You don't have to go to 188 trading post, but its just a suggestion to get them to keep moving.

You could try walking against them and slowly shoving them out of town... Slow, yes. Tedious, yes. Will it work? Maybe. But at least you won't have to look at that irradiated moomoo anymo.