Classified/Secret

Want to see an escorted truck? Go sit on I-81 just before the South Bound Scales. You will see a Marmon , cream colored, and two drivers sitting in the front and one asleep in the back. If you pass it, look at the nice pretty HK in the dash holder! You might have seen the "tail" a black Ford SUV with tinted windows an American Antennas K40 and a few smaller ones in the roof and of course the dash held HK. There will be 2 that you will see and a few others you won't.

Before PrePass they didn't bother to stop at the scales and DOT didn't bother to chase them as they know all about messing with those trucks! The story was after those scales were built some DOT got a wild hair up his 6 when they didn't stop and the young officer almost got a probe! He got pulled over and was looking down the barrels of a few weapons for his transgressions and after a little lesson on who not to go running after the word got around to the guys that run that scale. Now that was a great "you ain't going to believe this crap" story you could hear at the old Daniel Boone 76 for a few years.

But yes, there are gooberment owned trucks for the more sensitive freight that no trucking company will ever get loaded with as we are not up to the task of hauling those types of "sensitive" loads and have the firepower to stop any questionable people who think they need that freight more than Uncle Sam does. As said above there is enough fire power in the truck and the escorts to fight a small war! The US Marshall's Service is the owners of most of them and they even have buses for transporting federal prisoners and yep even a few aircraft for the same job.

 

Pictures of their vehicles if I did it right.

 

I wonder about getting one of those jobs. I'm goingto have to look into it. I would think for myself it may not be that difficult to get into something of that sort.

Yeah the gun inside of the pickup trucks that escort those trucks around according to my instructor was a 240G which is a 7.62/51mm and depending on which of the 3 gas settings you have it set on it will shoot between 650-950 rounds per minute. He said it was some of the most fun he had in the marine Corp.

 

No he's telling the truth. If fact there may be a chance that I knew him since he was stationed on the same base. The base was located apart from the main base with lots of woodes around. In fact you couldn't even see the front gate until you drove down the road for a 1/2 mile or so. Of course we knew when they were coming, we just didn't know the exact time they would be they. That's why they would call an hour before. Once the call was made the Marines would deploy ON-BASE and we would get our stuff ready. The Air Force may do things different than the Navy with security, I know because we had a hell of a time swapping bombs once. We loeded these trucks the very same way at another base and when we unloaded a CV-64 USS Carrier. You got the right trucks in those pictures thou. I can tell by the three funny lights on the trailer. They used to say FA,TA,and SA but it's been a long time so I may be off there. The trucks are based out of Amarillo TX but the office is in ALB. NM. Anyone can apply for the job if you meet the qualifications. Just search under Government Secure Courier Nuclear. Then look for "The Federal Agent Nuclear Materials Courier Program" On that page you can scoll half way down for a link that will show you what you need to have.

 

240G,or do you mean 240B?Is there a G variant now?Just wondering.

 

It's got to be AF talk. I mean NW, GMT, and WT was the Navy. The services had different acronyms for the same job over the years. With the Navy it started with Nuclear Weaponsmen,Gunnermate Technician, and then Weapons Technician. The job was the same. We did all the maintenance to the warheads including the delivery systems. Any component that had a linited life was changed and any nick, scratch, tore, or damage in any way was fixed. We kept the stockpile up to 98.8% reliable.

We have our own site http://www.navynucweps.com/. If you go to history-photo archive-people you will see a faint picture of the goast fleet of the trucks we are talking about. BTW the first three pictures are from me and the middle picture has me standing in the back row 2nd from the left. I hope I don't get into trouble on this.

 

In the marine Corp we didn't have 240B until 2007 and all they did was take the gulfs we had and convert them. The bravo does not have a variable gas setting like the gulf does.

 

Sorry I will clarify for you. The 240G is the original 240 that replaced the M60 in 1994 for the marine Corp atleast. In 07 is when my infantry unit had our gulfs converted to the bravo. November of 07. At that time we did not know the new specs or anything about it besides the barrel guard gets in the way and not having a variable gas regulator limits you round per minute count to the 750 range where with the bravo you could push 950 out of it.

 

o.k. bullchitting aside......These companies haul A & E loads for the DoD

TriState Motor Transit TSMT
R & R Trucking
Baggett
Boyle
Secured Land Transport (SLT)
Green Valley Transportation
Landstar
Chalich
Prestara

Might be a few others that I missed. All these carriers require DoD "Secret" clearances to haul their freight. All these carriers are team operations as someone MUST be in Attendance of the load at all times.

These companies hall for the Dept of Energy DoE
TSMT Tristate Motor Transit
R & R Trucking

The Ghost Fleet is owned by Tristate but the drivers are directly employed by the DoE. These drivers have "Q" clearances which only about 60 drivers nationwide have. The other DoE haulers have "L" clearances. I know I left a few other DoE haulers out but their names escape me.

 

coming across 58 in CA a few months ago saw 2 trks ..no name, trk number, dot, vin..NOTHING, NO MARKINGS whatsoever...had govt plates on trk n trailer....reefers ,not 13'6 either....they were being followed by a armoured (sp?) car looking vehicle....no markings as well....antenaes all over that thing....they passed me like i was parked, then they saw a cop going the other way and they about stopped..........what were they so nervous about????