Monkeyboyarmy
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Looks like there are 2 in private hands by the picture. Soni's gona be p----d. Nice looking inventory.
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i have lost it
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Monkeyboyarmy
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sorry. Double post
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Very nice,that would be fun to drive around our town and watch the faces on people.
wreckerman893
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My last active duty unit was a Transportation Company that had HETT's and PLS trucks.
My personal opinion is that the HETT system was designed by an idiot after consulting with a focus group of morons.....or retired Transportaion Officers.
I got into a pissin contest with an OSHKOSH rep that was training us on the trucks when I told him what a POS I thought it was......not so much the tractor but that trailer with all the stub axles and small tires. If they had put a decent engine in it instead of the double breasted Driptriot it might have been something other than a toad in the road. They are not fast on the road and when they hit a hill they are really slow. They are very heavy even empty. Do they have a cool factor....yes.....are they a practical road truck for everyday use....maybe, depending on what you are using it for.
For what the Army spent on one HETT unit you could have took a civilian rig and converted it and bought two.
Just the opinion of someone that has driven military and civilian trucks all of my adult life.
My personal opinion is that the HETT system was designed by an idiot after consulting with a focus group of morons.....or retired Transportaion Officers.
I got into a pissin contest with an OSHKOSH rep that was training us on the trucks when I told him what a POS I thought it was......not so much the tractor but that trailer with all the stub axles and small tires. If they had put a decent engine in it instead of the double breasted Driptriot it might have been something other than a toad in the road. They are not fast on the road and when they hit a hill they are really slow. They are very heavy even empty. Do they have a cool factor....yes.....are they a practical road truck for everyday use....maybe, depending on what you are using it for.
For what the Army spent on one HETT unit you could have took a civilian rig and converted it and bought two.
Just the opinion of someone that has driven military and civilian trucks all of my adult life.
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I have always wondered about the military attachment to the DD. When I first was going to diesel engine training in the late 70's most of the DD engines we rebuilt came from the Navy or Army. It's a ok engine if you don't mind noise, smoke, lack of power and using as much oil as diesel.
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WM hit the nail on the head. Needs about 200 more hp.
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Thanks for not asking if you could tow this truck home with a Subaru. 
So any HET's in Europe etc are not up for sale but has to be taken apart for scrap?. Hmm for some that might be sad
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This is what we use in DK for transporting our MBT's and APC/IFW's on the road: (The site is in english)
http://armyvehicles.dk/man40400.htm - Older Version
http://armyvehicles.dk/man33464.htm - Current version