Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers

From: chance wolf (chance_wolf@shaw.ca)
Date: Tue Apr 27 2004 - 19:53:44 PDT


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M1009 tires + M211 and trailers

At 4:19 PM -0700 4/27/04, chance wolf wrote:

>> back-and-forth thing that the Teamsters do was something we were never
>> taught on our own Safe Backing Course, and there must be some directional
>> component to it all which escapes the untrained eye.)

> Yeah, its the fact that the union protect's it's
> members and they aren't fired for running over
> someone's car.

Some are amazing. We watched this one guy without a ground-guide back this
53' around this maze of vehicles and other gear strewn around the lot more
quickly and efficiently than most of us could do *forwards* in a Datsun. It
was a thing of beauty!



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