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A military convoy in Mexico of FWD (Four Wheel Drive Auto Company trucks ( F W D logo visible on front truck's radiator) makes its way down a muddy, deeply rutted road. Date 1916
U.S. Army convoy from Detroit to an "Atlantic Coast port" [12] 6-2-1918 U.S. Army School for Truck Drivers "just opened" [13] [14] c. 1918: Chicago-to-New York City convoy sets Army distance record [15] 11-11-1918 Germans sign Armistice (cease fire) agreement, ending WWI: 12-1-1918 During World War I 90,727 trucks produced for the Army and Navy ...
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1919 "Trans-Continental Motor Truck" [1] The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy was a long distance convoy (described as a Motor Truck Trip with a "Truck Train" [1]) carried out by the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps that drove over 3,000 mi (4,800 km) on the historic Lincoln Highway from Washington, D.C., to Oakland, California and then by ferry over to end in San Francisco.
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The convoy pushed on to Spruce Pine, past smashed cars in corn fields, and past a Dollar General shoveling out from under two feet of mud. A 30-truck convoy rides through Helene’s worst in Avery ...
The Red Ball Express was a famed truck convoy system that supplied Allied forces moving quickly through Europe after breaking out from the D-Day beaches in Normandy in 1944. [1] To expedite cargo shipment to the front, trucks emblazoned with red balls followed a similarly marked route that was closed to civilian traffic.
The Department of Transportation warned that truck convoy protests planned across the United States could disrupt the national highway system and other critical transportation infrastructure ...