MIL-T-62145 Trucks: Elevating Body, Diesel And Gasoline Engine Driven, 21,000 To 39,500 Pounds Gvw, 4X2 And 6X4, CommercialThis specification covers diesel and gasoline engine driven four-wheel, two-rear-wheel drive, and six-wheel, four-rear-wheel drive vehicles having minimum gross vehicle weights GVW of 21,000 to 39,500 pounds, for normal operating conditions. The vehicles are commercial trucks equipped with stake and platform or van bodies, capable of elevating the body and cargo to a specified height for loading and unloading the cargo into and out of aircraft. The vehicles procured under this specification are commercial items which shall be warranted by the manufacturer as specified in acquisition documents.

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MIL-T-62145E

3.5.9.2 Warning signs. A warning sign specifying the payload capacity of the body shall be provided on the body visible to a driver entering the driver's cab door. Warning signs shall be furnished in critical locations reading: "KEEP HANDS AND FEET CLEAR OF LIFT WHILE LIFT IS IN OPERATION."

3.5.9.3 Highway warning kit. Three emergency reflective triangles conforming to Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulation 393.95(f)(2)(i) shall be furnished and stowed in the tool storage cabinet.

3.5.10 Dissimilar metals. All dissimilar metals used throughout the vehicle shall be insulated from one another to prevent galvanic or electrolytic action.

3.5.11 Lubrication fittings. Lubrication fittings accessibility located shall be furnished where moving parts normally require lubrication.

3.6 Type I, stake and platform body. Type I stake and platform body shall have the minimum dimensions specified in table VIII.

TABLE VIII. Type I dimensions (inches).

Vehicle class

Designation

Cab-to-axle without chassis mounted

winch

Cab-to-axle dimension with chassis

mounted winch

Overall platform length

Overall width (plus 1 inch, minus 1 inch) Interior width (plus 1 inch, minus 0)

Rack height (plus 1 inch, minus 0)

100

114

168

120

138

192

144

161

240

100

118

168

138

230

3.6.1 Construction. In addition to the requirements of 3.5 through 3.5.11, the body shall consist of a steel tread plate floor, side racks, tailgate, solid steel front, roof bows, and a tarpaulin. When a chassis mounted rear winch assembly is specified, the body shall be mounted rearward of the winch assembly. When the side racks and the front assembly are removed and the tailgate lowered, and the platform elevated above the vehicle cab, the platform shall present an entirely flat, unobstructed, horizontal surface.

3.6.2 Body frame. Body framing shall be a completely welded structure with members of minimum gage thickness specified in table IX for carbon steel; high tensile steel 50,000 psi minimum yield strength may be furnished in two gages lighter weight in accordance with

US Standard gage sizes. There shall be not less than 10 full-width crossmembers on class A

vehicles; not less than 12 full-width crossmembers on class B and C vehicles; and not less than

13 full-width crossmembers on class D and E vehicles, including ends and stub crossmembers as required for proper spacing over the axle(s). Rub rail shall be attached using continuous welds.