PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-696
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 696
NOVEMBER 2010
50
PS 696
NOV 10
T
he word’s in: Your unit’s shipping out. In the following burst of activity, everyone
may rush a bit more in their duties and lose track of some details that shouldn’t
be forgotten.
Missing details while preparing for deployment can result in big headaches when
trying to load and ship unit vehicles.
Correctly
For example, one M1152 shelter carrier’s white shipping label listed vehicle
specifcations in inches as: Length—194, Width—86, Height—76, and Weight—
7,146 pounds. The
actual
vehicle dimensions were Length—198, Width—96,
Height—115, and Weight—11,660 pounds!
There are many HMMWV models, so it’s easy to see how this mistake happened.
Someone entered the stats From a base model HMMWV into the deployment planning
soFtware, instead oF taking the time to check the unit’s MTOE For the specifc model,
then looking up and entering the correct data.
Logistics Management…
Record Your
Vehicle Data
Correctly
for
Deployment
Some
major problems
have
popped up when actual vehicle
dimensions or weights
don’t
match
what’s in the computer records.
Simply put,
when the
math doesn’t
fly, the ship
doesn’t sail!
here’s a true
HMmWv story
about an M1152
enhanced troop/
cargo/shelter
carrier, similar to
this illustration!
the actual physical
dimensions and
weight listed by the
installation for
sHipping this vehicle,
and written on
green tape,
didn’t
match the numbers
entered into the
computer system
that generated the
shipping label.
Later, it was determined that the person who made the
shipping label used tb 55-46-1,
standard characteristics
for transportability of military vehciles and other
outsize/overweight equipment,
and took the stats for
the first vehicle listed for the m1152.
but there are several variations of the m1152. the statistics for the
base vehicle (shown above) were mistakenly entered into the computer, and
those numbers didn’t include the shelter’s added weight and dimension.
somebody
needs to
check those
numbers
again!
there’s
no way
all of
us vehicles are gonna fit!
the deck
space is
calculated
and booked
down to the
inch!
Enhanced M1152
Base M1152
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