Keep your hands loose on the wheel. I remind myself of this as we fly across a section of foot-deep ruts at 20 mph. You want to let the independent suspension do the work and give the steering wheel freedom to move. In almost any other vehicle, I'd have lost steering control, plowed the front end, and possibly rolled over.
As one of the first civilians allowed behind the wheel of the military's new Joint Light Tactical Vehicle from Oshkosh Defense, I'm a little nervous. I'm driving a 14,000-pound armored truck that costs $399,000, and I'm doing it in front of the engineers who designed it.
The Humvee is going to be around for a long time, but for many urban missions, the JLTV will be a welcome upgrade.
XBradTC 
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