PS Magazine - TB 43-PS-709
PS, The Preventative Maintenance Monthly
ISSUE 709
DECEMBER 2011
10
PS 709
DEC 11
Vehicle
Passenger Capacity
2
1
/
2
-Ton Cargo Truck
2
1
/
2
-Ton Extended Cargo Body Trucks
2
1
/
2
-Ton Dump Trucks
5-Ton Cargo Trucks
5-Ton Extended Cargo Body Trucks
5-Ton Dump Trucks
1
1
/
4
-Ton HMMWV Troop Carrier
1
1
/
4
-Ton HMMWV Cargo/Troop Carrier
1
1
/
4
-Ton M880, M881, M882
Semitrailer Personnel Van
14
18
10
16
20
12
8
4
8
80
1.±
The limits provided apply only to vehicles that are properly
equipped with permanent or temporary seats. It doesn’t
include the operating crew.
2.±
Don’t crowd passengers on bench-type seats in cargo beds.
3.±
Passengers may be transported on post without fixed seats
for distances under 10 miles, if each passenger remains seated
wholly within the body and the body is equipped with stakes
or sideboards. When cargo space is used for passengers,
canvas tops will be in place with sides rolled down.
4.±
Drivers
must
refuse to move a vehicle if anyone is in an
unsafe position or the vehicle has too many passengers.
Vehicle
Passenger
Limits
Tactical Trucks…
Vehicle
Passenger
Limits
Need to know
how
many
passengers you
can safely carry in
your tactical truck?
TB 9-639,
Passenger-Carrying
Capacity of Tactical
and Administrative
Vehicles Commonly
Used to Transport
Personnel,
can help
you with that.
The TB gives
you the
passenger
limits for
tactical and
administrative
vehicles
commonly
used to
transport
personnel.
You’ll have to check the
operator’s manual and
AR 385-55,
Prevention of
Motor Vehicle Accidents,
to
get passenger limits for
vehicles
not
listed.
Find more guidance on
safely transporting
personnel in FM 21-305,
Manual for the Wheeled
Vehicle Driver.
Note
these
limits…
hMm… I
may
have
too
many PeoPle
On this truCk!
GroAn!
anybody
seEn my
CanTeEn?
Here are a
few things
you’ll learn
from this TB…
eight people! now
that’s
more
like it!
709 10-11.indd
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11/10/11
4:19 PM
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