This Oshkosh M911 Is A 22.5-Ton Ton Army Truck That Eats Deuce And A Half Rigs For Lunch


This Oshkosh M911 Is A 22.5-Ton Ton Army Truck That Eats Deuce And A Half Rigs For Lunch

Two weeks ago I was rolling down the road in Mooresville, North Carolina with Eric Yost in his big deuce and a half military truck. That is a big, lumbering, unstoppable 6×6 monster that is the furthest thing from fast that you can conceive of. That being said, the big multi-fuel engine sounded really awesome and pissed off through the open stack that was screaming just outside the passenger window where I was sitting. At the time I thought to myself that there wasn’t a thing on Earth more doomsday capable than that truck…and then I saw this 1977 Oshkosh M911 6×6 truck. Hey, the deuce and a half is freaking awesome but this thing has a gross combined weight of 190,000lbs. Considering that the big rigs you see on the highway come in at about 80,000 loaded, you’ll get an idea of just how gnarly this thing is.

Powered by an 8V92 Detroit Diesel and spinning an Allison automatic transmission, this truck is potentially slower than the deuce and a half but it could run through a city block of brick buildings without scratching the paint. 1200 of these trucks were produced in the late 1970s for the military to be used for hauling big equipment and armored vehicles around. This truck is in pretty amazing shape and like lots of military trucks it has super low mileage with only 18,944 clicks on the odometer. Everything about this truck is giant. We don’t have the specific tire size but those rollers look to be somewhere over 50″ in height. The massive winches on the back were no doubt planned to be used for hauling inoperable equipment and vehicles onto a trailer but could just as easily be used to relocate islands, remove a pesky bridge, or move the sun closer to the Earth on a cold day.

This truck is capable of running somewhere between 50-55mph down the highway and it would look damned fine doing it, I think. The interior is typically spartan Army truck with gauges and levers and three pedals even though this is an automatic. Why? The pedal in the place of where a clutch would be actually works a hydraulic retarder in the transmission to aid in slowing the truck when loaded. Pretty cool, right?

Six massive drive wheels, Detroit Diesel V8 power, and a combined weight of 190,000lbs. BANGSHIFT APPROVED!

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EBAY FIND: A 1977 OSHKOSH M911 22.5-TON ARMY TRUCK


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8 thoughts on “This Oshkosh M911 Is A 22.5-Ton Ton Army Truck That Eats Deuce And A Half Rigs For Lunch

  1. Bryan McTaggart

    I will personally attest that if you want fast, find an ungoverned M1078. I got clocked at 98mph in Kuwait. Oops.

  2. Pizzandoughnuts

    My wife would make sure I lived in that spacious cab if I brought that thing home.

  3. Johnny

    I drove a HEMMT ( this things cousin ) fuel truck off a cliff in the 80’s. V.A. pays me $1312 a mo. for life for surviving. LOL They are now paying for my master’s degree too. The Silver 92 in the HEMMT would do a shade over 100 m.p.h. empty. Learned during our monthly battalion HEMMT races on the back roads of Ft. Polk.

  4. Ian

    Might be smaller then some of the trucks we have here in Australia, but it LOOKS meaner.
    I mean, come on, it just screams get out of my way! A new Volvo FH16 750 might pull more but looks timid next to this beast.

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