From: Derek Strine (minimade@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 15:21:28 PDT
How about buying the M51, and a Deuce data plate?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Stansbury" <chris_stansbury@hotmail.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 11:25 AM
Subject: [MV] who likes their M51A2 dump truck?
> Hey All,
> I have been eyeballing a M51A2 dump for the past few weeks. Looks to be a
> pretty sound truck. It has a front winch and a cab protector. If I got
it,
> it would be mostly for fun, but also for hauling gravel and topsoil for
> personal use. The biggest problem I found with it is the truck weighs
just
> shy of 22,000 lbs. The limit for trucks in WV without a CDL is 22,000
lbs.
> So that means I could drive the truck, but I couldn't put anything in it.
I
> hadn't really planned on getting a CDL, but I may look into it. What have
> you guys done who own a 5-ton dump? By the way, in WV, anything over 8000
> lbs GVW cannot be licensed as an antique so the truck would have to have a
> class B license like my deuce. The Class B's are sold by the GVW, the
> higher the GVW, the higher the price. I listed my deuce as 15,000 GVW and
> it was $65. The 5-ton would be over $150 probably, EVERY year. What
about
> a deuce dump truck? I have never seen one for sale as of yet. No, I
don't
> want to put a dump kit on my deuce either. Any info will be helpful.
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
> Chris Stansbury, O.D.
> 1301 Lee Street East
> Charleston, WV 25301
> 304-343-3363
>
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