The new Medium truck for Canada - 8x8 Mack

[Grant Bowker]

Even scarier than Rob's comment on "Medium" having grown from 2-1/2 to 5 tons, the linked article gives a load capacity of 9500 kg (over 10 short tons). I hope they aren't asking the soldiers to shoulder 4 times the load as well.

[maple_leaf_eh]

The MSVS SMP is 10m long, 2.6m wide and 3.5m tall. That is 32 feet long, 8.5 feet wide, 11 1/2 feet tall. By comparison, the HLVW 9m long x 2.5 m wide x 3 m high. Pretty much the same size. But no one asked me.

[rob love]

Grant: Most of the SMP's normal rating was half the highway rating. So even in the good old days, a 2-1/2 ton actually had a highway capacity of 5 tons.