Following many disasters, roads and airfields are cleared of debris to permit the emergency response and recovery process. Heavy equipment such as bulldozers, front-end loaders, dump trucks, and cranes ensure rapid clearing of critical access to transportation networks. This heavy equipment compliments the light airfield and route clearance equipment (prevously procured) which includes chain saws, chop saws, hand tools, personal protection equipment, rope ladders, and other light clearance equipment (skid loaders). Each of the 89 Air National Guard (ANG) wings have these equipment sets bundled into large steel containers with trailers, but no vehicles capable of transporting them to an incident site. These dump trucks would not only pull the trailers of equipment but also provide organic haul capability and personnel transportation.

Need identified in 2015 Domestic Capability Priority Book for ESF #1.