US Law Enforcement Response, Time, Scale and Coordination (Galveston, TX)

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Originally Posted by Icelander

Well, I know it's something like a Ford F-450, GMC G3500 Savana or a Chevy 3500, with about a 16' box. The truck would be a 2015-2017 model, in good condition, with as much power and handling as possible while still looking like an ordinary box truck. Also, because Igor has to drive it for 8+ hours a day and sometimes for 16+ hours, it should be fairly comfortable up front.

As far as I can tell, the rear doors would almost certainly be roll-up of some kind, or whatever you call if when the rear door can be lowered to use as a loading ramp. Igor the Russian dogsbdy had certain specific requirements for the box, chief of which were that it should be as easy, quick and convenient as possible to load roughly 6' long rectangular boxes weighing up to 600 lbs. in there, preferably with a powered loading ramp.

Igor was also adamant that when the box was closed, it should be fully closed and anyone locked in there for... reasons should not receive any light, his or her cries should be dampened and there ought to be no way to open from the inside. If necessary, Igor would have had access to any tools available at a garage in California where ethnic businessmen known to his employers renovate automobiles of uncertain ownership to increase their resale value and reduce the odds of arrest for anyone involved in obtaining these automobiles.

Igor would not have been averse to reinforcing and padding the inside of the box, as well as making any improvements practical to allow him to open and close the doors quickly and load his cargo even if he doesn't have help.* Igor had several weeks for such work while he was in California, at least 40 hours of week available to him, but obviously, at that time, Igor was not preparing the truck to be a sniper's hide, just a mobile prison and kidnap vehicle, as well as a coffin, corpse and mystical component mover.

Now, however, Igor is told to modify the truck to be used as a mobile firing platform. It's okay if there are no rear doors, because the truck will be used to stop a vehicle, drive 5.6 miles and then left behind. It won't be all that inconspicious at any point, because Raul estimates that there will be some damage to the truck from a crash (hopefully minor, however) and that unless everything goes unrealistically perfectly, the truck will be reported as the attack vehicle and followed by police cars until Igor disables any and all following vehicles.

Igor has Machnist-14 and Mechanic (Automobile, OS: Trucks)-14, as well as Mechanic (Heavy Wheeled)-13. He owns as many tools for these skills as he can practically fit somewhere on the truck, without leaving something dangerous within reach of anyone trapped in the box.

*It may be worth mentioning here that Igor is inhumanly strong, at least as strong as two fairly hefty movers.

The powered ramp may be a problem. Most of'em completely block, or nearly block the door when deployed up. They're also kind of slow to operate. I'm honestly not sure if it'd be easier to have a regular pll-out ramp and use that to push the coffins in. I assume this are more "wooden box" coffins, rather than the big steel ones?

Sheet foam insulation should work wonders for sound damping. Put about 6" of polystyrene foam up, which you can attach with glue or screws(glue wouldn't leave any holes for possible sunlight infiltration), and I bet you could have a disco party inside and a passer by wouldn't notice it.

Your typical box-truck isn't openable from the inside, so that's a pretty easy thing to handle. Like I said earlier, if you want to rapidly make it so, you can just remove the locking handle from the outside, and use some sort of means to secure it while in transit.

If possible, a few 55 gallon steel drums, filled with either water or sand could be loaded in the back as impromptu protective cover. I'd prefer sand, because it doesn't run out of the bullet holes as easy. You can bolt them to the floor or use load straps to secure them, and they would make a decent position to fire from. Well, as good as things are going to get in a wildly manuevering box truck at high speeds. Though the mass could help to prevent roll-overs, so that's a thing.