From: J. Wiehe (j.wiehe@sympatico.ca)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 13:17:37 PDT
And the ground guides favourite directions:
" Go ahead, back up. Go ahead, back up. "
Then they walk up to the cab and ask why do you keep
driving forward when I'm telling you to back up ?
Once you get used to doing the " small " trailers a nice
big 48' or 53 footer will be a piece of cake.
Jim Wiehe VA3JHW
j.wiehe@sympatico.ca
----- Original Message -----
From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:41 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "chance wolf" <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 8:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers
>
> > We did that in the Reserves too. Better mirrors would probably help if
> you
> > could get them to stick out far enough and still be practical, but failing
> > that, it's a bit like herding cats.
>
> We always used a ground guide too, though some didn't
> exactly..inspire..confidence...
>
>
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