Just need to vent...

Nice, that worked!

There's my old M9 truck.....she had power NOTHING...and no A/C.....turning her used up some real testosterone and don't you dare keeping the hands on the steering wheel when coming out of a turn.....it'll break your fingers! Two 50-gallon diesel tanks and she got 3-6 mpg's so you're stopping a lot to refuel which was just as well....we'd stock up on cold soda and ice cream as we were in Las Vegas in the summertime.

We were driving through West Texas once on our way to Vegas (in July) and I got a flat on an inside tire so jacking her up and changing tires was a fun job....slept REAL good that night....

 

Our old Mercedes Class C was a dually. Would always carry the 2 gallon Craftsman compressor with a ¾“ rattle gun for just such occasions. It'd rattle 3 or 4 loose - then wait for compressed tank to refill. Rinse & repeat

 

Yeah the larger military convoys would have a dedicated team from the post car-pool maintainers but we were just a small, Air Force squadron with no maintainers assigned. (We'd just drove over to the base motor pool when they needed maintenance or had issues.)

We'd just have one or two M9's, with generators, and one or two Chevy or Ford 6-pack trucks and we'd take turns driving as the trucks had A/C. (But they were military-spec trucks so, other than A/C, they didn't have anything....Chevy/Ford even went so far as to replace carpeting with cheap rubber mats, AM radio only, manual window controls....whatever maximized their profit when selling to the gubmint...I hated those things.