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In trucking, a backhaul is a hauling cargo back from point B to the originating point A. [1] Since it costs almost as much time to drive empty as fully loaded, the truck is often hired to carry revenue cargo on both the outbound and backhaul legs of a cargo route. This makes economic sense, since it helps to pay for the operating expenses for ...
In the United States, a Shot Crew, officially known as an Interagency Hotshot Crew (IHC), is a team of 20-25 elite wildland firefighters that mainly respond to large, high-priority fires across the country and abroad. They are assigned to work the most challenging parts of the fire and are considered strategic and tactical wildland fire experts.
The Yarnell Hill Fire was a wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona, ignited by dry lightning on June 28, 2013.On June 30, it overran and killed 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of firefighters within the Prescott Fire Department.
The Palletized Load System (PLS) is a truck-based logistics system that entered service in the United States Army in 1993. It performs long and short distance freight transport , unit resupply, and other missions in the tactical environment to support modernized and highly mobile combat units.
Oshkosh M911 tractor hauling logs. A logging truck or timber lorry is a large truck used to carry logs. [1] Some have integrated flatbeds, some are discrete tractor units, and some are configured to spread a load between the tractor unit and a dollied trailer pulled behind it. Often more than one trailer is attached.
Michigan basketball starts its Big Ten slate late Tuesday against a tougher-than-expected Wisconsin squad. Dusty May is ready for the challenge. Michigan basketball opens Big Ten play with red hot ...
Hot Shot, the brand name for a line of hot water makers made by Sunbeam Products; Hot Shot, the brand name for an insecticide using Lambda-cyhalothrin; Hot shot wind tunnel, for hypersonic testing; Hotshot (railway), rail terminology for some high-priority trains; Hotshot crew, a firefighting crew specially trained in wildland firefighting
The Lolo Hotshots were founded in 1961 and are considered to be one of the first hotshot crews in the United States. [3] [4] [5] The Lolo Hotshots received their first dispatch in 1969 to fight the Russian River Fire in Alaska.