Oshkosh M1070F HET - British Army

[M35A2]

Here are a few pictures I took while driving back to the depot in my truck a few months ago. On the back is a Challenger 2 MBT. These trucks have just entered service with the British Army in the last few years. The trucks are, in fact, part of a PFI contract (Private Finance Initiative) and are driven by civilian drivers that are members of the Territorial Army (like your National Guard). When there is no work to be done on them, the drivers work for local civilian companies. Then if they are needed abroad on operations, they get called up. Because they are in Iraq for months at a time, there are always jobs going to drive them.

They differ from the US ones slightly. I will include a link to the British Army website, where there is detailed information on most of the equipment our Army uses.

Cheers

Andy
http://www.army.mod.uk/equipment/index.htm

 

[slash79]

were there armed escorts for these tanks? i could just picture a band of the IRA getting ahold of one of these...

 

[Desert Rat]

Now THAT'S a trailer!!!!!! What a nice Michigan Train she is! (That's what we call a multi-axle trailer like that one because in Michigan and the Great Lakes area they run very heavy with iron ore.) I'm just ing over it. Ahh the freight I could handle................. What a nice ride for my 'dozer..................

 

[Elwenil]

Yeah, imagine the turning radius, the tire wear, oh the humanity! Lol, pretty cool though. I believe I remember seeing on the Discovery Channel or somewhere that a lot of roads in Europe won't handle a lot of weight so they have to use trailers like that to disperse the weight to prevent damage to the roads.

 

[NEIOWA]

The first 5 trailer axles are steerable.

http://www.oshkoshtruck.com/pdf/Oshkosh_HET_1070F.pdf

http://www.kingtrailers.co.uk/Military/indexmil.htm

 

[rizzo]

here is a michigan gravel train

here is a "B" train. the lead trailer has a fith wheel plate on the back. "A" trains have a pintle that a dolly hooks to. Most of the gravel trains are A style. Some grain haulers have B style. or if they belly unload they use B style

Michigan has a 162000lb weight limit. Most states have 80,000lb. This tears up the roads bad. If they lowered the limit we would spend less money on road repair and have more jobs (need more trucks)

 

[Elwenil]

How about the trains from down under?

 

[rmgill]

IF the point load is the same, what's the difference? The only question is if bridges can handle the weight, but then if they get tow trucks of the same weight crossing at the same time, it's the same weight no?

Those wheels on the HETT trailer caster as I recall.

 

[Elwenil]

I knew the wheels turned, but since the trailer frame itself doesn't bend, there's still a bit a tire scrubbing and some wide turning. Better then if they didn't turn at all, but still not perfect, lol.

 

[rizzo]

How about the trains from down under?

I've seen those before. I think those are 240,000lbs gross. huge

 

[rmgill]

See http://www.oshkoshtruck.com/defense/products~hetuk~1070f.cfm for more on the HET. Oshkosh has photos up on the UK trucks as well. Seems like they had some sales videos a while back that had lots of good details.

 

[rmgill]

Here's the video link mms://rodan.implex.net/alliedvaughn/Oshkosh/HET_300k.wmv

 

[NEIOWA]

US uses a different trailer. The M1000 HET semitrailer. 5 rows of 1/2 axles (10pr ea with 4 tires). http://www.olive-drab.com/idphoto/id_photos_m1000.php3

M1000 list price to Sam is $229219 in comparison
M1070 Oshkosh HET is only $256704.

 

[SGTLong35]

I have been in the US Army for just over 13 years now, and am an instructor for the M-1070 HET and the M-1000 Trailer. The M1070 Tractor has 4 axles, 2 tires per axle. Axles 1 and 4 (counting from front to back) both steer. On the M1000 trailer, it boasts 10 individual bogies (they're not called axles), but when you are counting, you only count 5 bogies and then differentiate between street-side and curb-side. There are four tires per bogie, with a total count of 40 tires on the pavement and 2 spare tires stowed on top of the gooseneck. As far as steering goes, bogies three through five all counter-steer at different percentages of you steering angle. The steerable bogies are tied into the hydralic lines that are run up to a steering wedge that tightens into the backside of the fifth wheel. When the wedge moves left, the bogies turn left and vice versa. All bogies are tied into the APU on the trailer through hydralic lines so the trailer deck can be adjusted up or down. The steerable bogies can be manually steered with the APU. The gooseneck is also adjusted up/ down with the APU. If there are any other questions about US military vehicles in service, please feel free to ask me and I can get info on them as far as OPSEC isn't breeched.

 

[M1075]

Thanks for the info. Can you post up some pics of the truck and trailer? Everyone here likes to see pics!

 

[avengeusa]

yeah, it would be nice to have some good hi-res pics, that is one awesome truck

 

[Shackey985]

This is the truck for me. I can just see me moving all the museums vehicles around Australia.
Of course I have to win lotto a couple of times to be able to bye one. can we get some photos of inside the cab and around the truck and trailer.

 

[rorybellows]

we used to escort 377 het outta germany while in iraq. went through bogie tires like it was goin out of style . would be an awesome tow rig. slower than **** though

 

[11Echo]

About 35 yrs ago I seen a MI train pull into Ewald Steel Warehouse on Military Run Rd. He had a GMC 9500 series truck with a Detroit 12V71 motor. He had 14 axles on the rig. Told me he had 250,000 on it. It looked like he was right!

 

[StrykerPez]

Oh.... Oh GOD!!!!!!


The tires!!! Thats alot of F****N tires!!!

Imagine the price of that many tires!