wreckerman893
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What he said.Wm and I dealt with about 20 of these beast in FL. a few years ago, the pucker factor did not get better
The first time I loaded a FPU only onto a transport trailer (up a steep ramp) my O-ring snapped shut so tight you could not have driven a straight pin past it with a twelve pound sledge hammer.
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I don't know if the rear axle came off the ground when it topped that ramp but my beak was pretty close to the deck of that trailer.
Even with a trailer bolted on it took me a few minutes to get used to driving them around the post we were loading them at and I drove HEMMT's in the Army.
When I was at Fort Benning in the 80's the Marines brought their LAV's there to live fire.
The were using MK-48's as ammo haulers and they had one flip over going down a big hill near the Ammo Supply Point.
One of the guys did not make it due to being ejected and ran over by the trailer.
We had to recover the spilled ammo and help the Marines recover the truck with one of our big cranes.
They are great vehicles but they have a steep learning curve.