Horizontal Transport Equipment.

TM 38-400/NAVSUP PUB 572/AFMAN 23-210 MCO 4450.14/DLAM 4145.12

gasoline-powered vehicle used exclusively as a load

carrier. It may be used to supplement a forklift truck in

the same manner as the tractor-trailer train depending

upon the size and weight of the load and the distance

the load is to be moved. In addition to transporting

supplies, the truck may be used as a portable servicing

unit when equipped with spare parts and tools or with

gasoline and oil dispensing facilities. The standard

gasoline-powered model, equipped with pneumatic tires,

has a load capacity of 4,000 or 6,000 pounds. The

electric-powered, usually equipped with solid-rubber

tires, has a load capacity of 2,000, 3,000, and 4,000

pounds.

b. Truck, burden carrier, electric, pneumatic tires.

The burden carrier is an electrical truck available in

three or four-wheel models. The burden carrier has a

platform for cargo. It has a capacity range to 7,000

pounds and is used to transport loads over a long

distance. For continuous use, optional rollout batteries

Figure 4-27. Crane truck, warehouse, gasoline.

can be used (fig 4-28).

4-8. Horizontal Transport Equipment.

a. Truck, fixed platform, gasoline or electric. The

platform truck is a nonelevating electric- or

Figure 4-28. Truck, burden carrier, electric, pneumatic tires.

Drawbar pull, which is the motive force that the tractor

c. Warehouse Tractors. A warehouse tractor is an

can exert in pushing or pulling loads, is merely a means

electric or gasoline powered vehicle designed to pull a

of indicating tractor capability, and the actual capacity of

train of warehouse trailers. Gasoline-powered models,

the tractor is normally far in excess of the drawbar pull

equipped with pneumatic tires, have a rated drawbar

rating. A tractor with a drawbar pull of 4,000 pounds

pull from 4,000 to 7,500 pounds. Electric-powered

may, for example, have an actual towing capacity of 90

models with solid-rubber tires have a rated drawbar pull

of 2,000 to 4,000 pounds.

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