TM55-7440-240-14
HIGHWAY TRANSPORTABILITY GUIDANCE
Section I. GENERAL
5 - 1 . Scope
movement under its own power. The power units
This chapter provides transportability guidance for
are towed by the 5-ton trucks and the shelter is
highway movement of the TACFIRE system. It
covers significant technical and physical charac-
carried in the cargo bed of one of the trucks. The
system is within the w-eight, length, and height
teristics and prescribes the materials and guidance
required to prepare, load, and tie down the system
legal limitations for highway movement in CONUS,
but the truck exceeds the 96-inch width limitation.
components.
A special permit may be required in accordance
with AR 55162. These restrictions apply also to
5 - 2 . Safety
oversea highway movement. Legal limitations in
Safety precautions are listed in chapter 3.
oversea areas are identified in Limits of Motor Ve-
hicle Sizes and Weights, International Road Fed-
5-3. General
eration, 1023 Washington Building, Washington,
DC 20005.
The TACFIRE system is capable of highway
Section II. TRANSPORT BY SEMITRAILER/TRUCK
chain-type load binders, they will be used to secure
5 - 4 . Preparation
the loads to the trailers. If load binders are not
Secure all loose items to preclude damage enroute.
available, adequate blocking and tiedown materials
are provided by the shipping activity and are
spcified in table 5-1 for truck, cargo, M813A1, and
in table 5-3 for the shelter. S491, and power unit.
a. General. The cargo truck, shelter, and power
PU732/M.
unit, loaded on flatbed semitrailers or trucks, may
be transported over highways. Movement over
c. Loading. The cargo truck, shelter, and power
public highways in CONUS and overseas normally
unit may each be placed in the tiedown position on
is used only for short hauls or when other modes of
the carrier equipment by a crane of 11.5 tons or
transport are not available or practical. Highway
more capacity (fig 61, 6-3 and 6-5. chapter 6, Ma-
shipment may be made using either commercial or
rine and Terminal Transportability Guidance, pro-
military flatbed trailers or trucks of adequate size
vide lifting guidance). The cargo truck and power
and capacity (11.5-ton min). Tractor and semitrail-
unit may be driven or tow-cd onto the carrier
ers or trucks, when loaded with the TACFIRE
equipment if a suitable ramp and prime mover are
components, may exceed height or width lim-
available. When the cargo truck and power unit are
itations. In CONUS the maximum unrestricted
in the tiedown position , set the parking brakes.
height is 162 inches and the width is 96 inches. To
illustrate. the component items are shown as typi-
cal loads on semitrailer. M127 series (fig 51, 52
tiedown diagrams and details, compatible with
and 5-4). For unrestricted height clearance the
standard loading practices, of how to restrain the
shelter is removed from the cargo truck and loaded
loads adequately against forces encountered at
separately. The cargo truck height must be re-
normal speeds and under normal operating condi-
duced so that, when combined with the semitrailer
tions. Tables 51 and 5-3 provide bills of materials,
loading surface height of 60 inches, the unre-
and tables 52 and 5-4 provide guidance for appli-
stricted height limit is not exceeded.
cation of the materials for tiedown of the compo-
b. Material. If semitrailers are equipped with
nent items.
