Well, maybe not a walk-around - more like a very slow drive-by! First real chance I’ve had to get some detail pics of one of these beasts:
Construction Vehicle walk-around page - updated with a Ford L9000 crane truck
http:///www.dataviewbooks.com/Construction3.html
It is not a HEMMT. It is an M1074 PLS (Palletized Load System), based on the HEMMT truck, just longer and beefier. The back has a flat-rack that it can be off-loaded and another picked up to transfer supplies, artillery rounds, etc. It works simmilar to a large industrial dumpster that you see at construction sites that are loaded on and off a truck.
More info here:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/pls.htm
http://www.primeportal.net/hemtt/m1075_walk.htm
http://www.primeportal.net/hemtt/m1075_pics.htm
[:0] I hang my head in shame…must have had HEMTT on the brain…that extra axle that slipped right by me!
Chris
Man…even though it’s not a HEMTT, it still brings back lots of memories…I spent many, many long, cold and lonely nights in the cab of the M978 when I was at Ft. Riley, Kansas…I was in an armor battalion so every time they went to the field, we went to the field…also spent some time in the M977’s on ammo duty…