Command Vehicle Driving and Overview
A Multipurpose Vehicle
The command vehicle is perhaps better called a
Command/Counseling/Communications/Cooking/Food delivery vehicle.
For counseling use, it has privacy curtains. For Communications,
it contains business band and ham radios. For cooking, it has a
small microwave and a small coffeepot. For food delivery, it has
warming drawers for holding food, as well as straps for holding down
Cambro food containers. For simplicity, this manual will
refer to it as a Command Vehicle.
The command vehicle is built on a 24 foot E450 Ford chassis, similar to
many class C motor homes. It has a V10 gasoline engine. The floor
plan can be viewed here.
It has a propane heater, like an RV. It has a generator, like an
RV. Confirm that the generator
runs on Propane.
It has air conditioning and a built in TV set with DVD player.
Driving the vehicle.
Important
safety note: the propane valve must be shut and the heater turned
off
before fueling the vehicle with propane or gasoline. Even if the
propane valve is shut, the heater can generate ignition sparks that
could ignite fumes from the fueling process.
Due to the long rear overhang,
it has a tendency to scrape the rear end when the front end goes up
suddenly, as it might when turning off a road into a higher parking
lot. It has casters on the rear to reduce the risk of damage when
that happens. Try to avoid abrupt changes in angle while
driving. For the same reason, the vehicle is not suited to very
rough roads. The long rear overhang also means that when
maneuvering in tight quarters, the rear end goes left when the steering
wheel is turned to the right.
Trailers
The vehicle has a trailer hitch
for light trailers, under 3000 pounds, such as the radio tower trailer
or small utility trailers. Do not attempt to pull larger trailers
behind this unit, such as the generator trailer or a kitchen trailer.
RAF 12/8/07