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Originally Posted by JeffTheTerrible

I've never hauled Hot Wheels cars. But do golf carts count? They have toxic batteries, and geriatric old farts drive them, so that should be enough for them to be considered hazardous, should it not?

If it's not enough for super secret hazmat status, could I at least have slightly secret hazmat?

The good news is, you don't have to worry about driving those into a lake. The old farts will handle that at the water hazards.

Unless Michael Douglas shows up first. Then the golf cart goes into the water after receiving a shotgun blast while the old fart has a heart attack 8)

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Originally Posted by JeffTheTerrible

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Originally Posted by Walking Eagle

Nope, going into storage at Herlong.

Did you recognize the unit markings on it? Kinda curious as to where it was coming from, because I was under the impression that the Army had mostly phased out the M1A1 in favour of the M1A2. Now one could be a real BBR if they found a way to swap that motor into their rig. Granted, the fuel economy with those turbine engines sucks, and you'd have to find one hell of a transmission to handle the torque, but still, that's 1500 horses, and in a fairly compact package, to boot.

Yep they did so they are being moved from AD's, and anyplace else to storage, not gona scrap them yet. There must be 5 or 6 hundred of them lined up out at Herlong.
Was a bunch of markings on it but don't remember any in particular. I know it was in GW1 as the guy loading it told me and pointed out the different colors from new ones getting ready to be shipped over there now. Guess these going into storage (mothball) are totaly gone thru and brought back up to spec. before storage.

so what is it and why ?

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Originally Posted by tropolisclone (Post 387492)

because I counted sixteen on one, and 22 on one with 2 traliers. so why are they called 18 wheelers?

Dont know why either