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By 1915, the US Army was using trucks tactically. When the US joined World War I in April, 1917 it began purchasing trucks in larger numbers. Early trucks were often designed for both military and commercial use, later military-specific designs were built. Since 1940 the US military has ordered over 3,000,000 tactical trucks.
GM CUCVs were assembled mostly from existing heavy duty light commercial truck parts. The CUCVs came in four basic body styles: pickup, utility, ambulance body and chassis cab. [12] [13] The M1008 was the basic cargo truck, the M1010 was the ambulance, and the M1009 was a Chevrolet K5 Blazer uprated to 3 ⁄ 4-ton capacity.
M. M6 bomb service truck; M19 tank transporter; M25 tank transporter; M35 series 2½-ton 6×6 cargo truck; M39 series 5-ton 6×6 truck; M123 and M125 10-ton 6x6 trucks
This list includes military trucks, are in production for 2021. Previous models are in a separate table, which is below. In the column "Company" indicates the manufacturer of the truck, in the column "truck" model
Before the US entered the war the Army had used small numbers of Mack trucks in trials. The commercial AC, designed with US Army input, was introduced in 1916. First purchased by the United Kingdom, it was an immediate success in military service.
Field Service Regulations, United States Army, 1923: 2 November 1923 [38]...Field Service Regulations, revised by the General Staff... De facto: These FSR supersede FSR, 19 March 1914, including all changes and various editions. J. L. Hines: INACTIVE: FSR 1914 (D) Field Service Regulations, United States Army, 1914, corrected to July 31, 1918.
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The Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT) is an eight-wheel drive, diesel-powered, 10-short-ton (9,100 kg) tactical truck. [2] The M977 HEMTT first entered service in 1982 with the United States Army as a replacement for the M520 Goer, and since that date has remained in production for the U.S. Army and other nations.