From: Bjorn Brandstedt (super_deuce@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 14 2004 - 05:11:01 PDT
For the Army's talk about retrofitting safety features, where are they on
these new designs?
<http://www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/MarApr00/MS497.htm>
Why is a roll bar/cage so difficult to build for a humvee? To support the
weight of a 5-ton is one thing, but a humvee??
Bjorn
MVPA19212
>From: Marc Strangfeld <curlyjoe98@yahoo.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] unsafe army trucks
>Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:02:58 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Dave
>
>Thanks for the link. The articles are interesting but
>you can tell they were written by a misinformed (is
>moron to harsh?). I would have to agree that lack of
>training is the problem. It should be obvious that
>these trucks are dangerous if not driven properly.
>There has been quite a bit of discussion on safety and
>rightly so, but in regards to the M35 you still can't
>do much about the non-telescoping steering wheel, hard
>steel dash, lack of ROPS, lack of shoulder belts, etc.
>so proper driving is the only practical solution. I
>let many people drive my M35 but only with me sitting
>next to them giving safe driving instructions. The
>most important I feel is, "slow down!, don't rev it so
>high, don't shift so fast, turn corners slower, slow
>down sooner", after a while they get the idea.
>
>I don't know the full story about the M939 rollover,
>and it surely is sad, but what business does a
>unqualified operator have in running a truck to full
>speed and applying the brakes "hard" to test them.
>Sounds like negligence.
>
>At least these articles are based on military
>accidents and haven't got into the civilian
>accidents...yet.
>
>Marc
>
>
>
>
>
>--- L51940@aol.com wrote:
> > For the past three days The Detroit News has run a
> > front page, headline expose' on unsafe army trucks.
> > I think that these articles will be of immense
> > interest to our group. The address below will take
> > you to all three days stories. I'll bet these will
> > juice up the e-mail some.
> >
> > http://www.detnews.com/specialreports/2004/military/
> >
> > Dave McConnell
> >
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