From: paul carrier (paulc@teleport.com)
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 12:46:18 PDT
Not sure what you might have seen, surely not HET's as they have a single
trailer with a ton of small tires.
The chalk markings are convoy markings, any time more than 5 or so move you
have to get a convoy clearance> this will include the number sequence to
use.
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> Behalf Of Horrocks, Aaron
> Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 11:16 AM
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> Subject: [MV] Chalk Markings?
>
>
> On Friday I was driving out to go to a combat sim for the
> weekend, and on the way there I saw about a dozen 10 Tons going
> the other way on I-5 in California. I'm pretty sure they were 10
> tons, I know 2.5 Tons fairly well, and 5 Tons look pretty beefy
> in comparison, but these things were HUGE! The bumper on these
> trucks sat above most traffic, and the things dwarfed
> semi-trucks! Each one was a 5th wheel towing a flat bed trailer,
> with another trailer on the trailer. I guess they were moving trailers!
>
> Anyway my question is this: Each Truck had white chalk markings
> on the driver's door. The Numbers were some thing like this:
> 03-12345. So, why would they mark up these trucks like that?
> Could they have been going to auction? Some sort of ID number for
> swapping bases? I've been pondering this one for a while and
> thought some of you guys might know.
>
> Aaron Horrocks
> 1952 M38A1
>
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