Military Tractor trailer

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  1. Sep 21, 2015 #1
    dca

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    What do you think ?
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  3. Sep 21, 2015 #2
    FinkPloyd

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    Military Spec Freightliner fld with the 12.7 Detroit
    Lots of Soldiers owe their lives to the toughness of those things, could Take a roadside Bomb and Still Make it back to base.. and many did just that.

    I can Imagine a Bulldozer outfit would LOVE to have a Truck like that.
     
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  4. Sep 21, 2015 #3
    negativecold13

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    now that, brings back memorys...remember the old M818 series, rode rough as hell, but tougher than John Wayne...
     
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  5. Sep 21, 2015 #4
    dca

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    Part of convoy pulled into where I was parked. The rest were rolling north while I was heading south. Fuel tankers, generators on wheels, humvees and more , I was a little awed as usual, they were up to something, more then likely the norm..

    What's their top speed ? Are they geared low ?
     
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    91B20H8

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    That's a 916A4 if my fading memory hasn't let me down. 5 speed Allison auto, tops out at about 56 unless someone has gotten into the DDEC
     
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    negativecold13

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    never got much over 50mph because of always being in convoy...when I was in Korea in mid 90s, I passed everything in my M915 international day cab...never much looked at the speedometer...was fearless back then...it had a 16 speed slapstick, half auto tranny...i think the guys at humphreys were limited to 50mph, but i was up in youngson, so we did what we could get away with...but even the M930 tractors would do 60mph with a dozer or 5000 gallons of water, just took them a while to get up there...
     
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    heavyhaulerss

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    Now when you say tougher than the DUKE, you fixin to start sump'in. :mad:
     
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  10. Sep 22, 2015 #8
    negativecold13

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    Lol....knew someone would call me on that...
     
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    peterbilt_2005

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    Short trailers and heavy units. Would be good at the house. Very doubtful on the big road.

    But cool non the less
     
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  12. Sep 23, 2015 #10
    dca

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    That's kind of what I thought, around the ranch or farm however, the military does it. I havent seen any with sleepers yet. I get the impression large companies would rather employees followed the example set by military convoys.
     
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