Derry Longhorn 3194

*"It's big, bold and definitely looks like it's ready to 'git er' dun' in the sense that this thing eats, sleeps, and dreams logistics. It's a tough vehicle, and has the turning rate of a battleship, seeing it only has one steering axle, and the dead axle doesn't steer. These things used to haul our former main battle tanks, and eventually got sold as surplus to either soon-to-be juntas dictatorships or shady trucking companies. Luckily we've gotten our hands on quite a few of these historic monuments of trucks, and made them meaner than they already were."*
*-Garage description*

The **Derry Longhorn 3194** is a Heavy Hitcher appearing in *MotorStorm: Off The Grid*.

## Details

Since the ANK Mk.38 didn't have nearly as much of a towing capacity and having a design that couldn't accommodate a trailer hitch, the U.S. Department of Defense reached out to Atlas for a heavy duty six wheel drive tractor that could transport various logistics supplies as well as being the sole tank transporter of the military's logistics branch, Atlas had forged a truck no military logistics truck driver would've forgotten. It is said that 1,000 3194s were built, even though some of them were allegedly modified Recruiters with longer wheelbases and an 8x6 configuration, and only 850 of the 3194 were procured by the U.S. Army, while the 145 others were procured by the Israeli Defense Force, and five remained unsold.

However, eventually, the U.S. Military eventually replaced the 3194 with the brand new Derry Longhorn 4520, and ended up selling most, if not all of the 3194s to oil tycoons for transport of heavy loads, as well as various American and Canadian logistics companies for transporting various building materials.

Coming down to the chassis, the truck had a ladder chassis, with pneumatic air-ride suspension, with a pusher axle that would lighten the truck when it would have to travel down any type of road with a weight limit, seeing the axle would spread the truck's weight evenly when transporting heavy loads, primarily transporting the U.S. Military's M-47 "Patton" main battle tank. However, due to the pusher axle not being a steered axle, it gave the truck a considerably worse turning radius, despite later models built in the early 80's had a steerable pusher axle, which still didn't make any much more of a difference.

In terms of technical specifications, the 3194 originally had a Westminster 12V854WC 14 liter naturally aspirated and water cooled V12 engine, the same engine as seen on the Ron Geare Carraway, though in the case of the 3194 produced only 475 brake horsepower, and gave the truck a healthy 980 lb-ft of torque, which gave it a towing capacity of 69.95 tons.

Later models have a Westminster 8V732TAC engine, which was a 12 liter turbocharged and aftercooled V8 engine, which helped the truck produce 600 horsepower. The truck was also redesigned as well, as Jon Doe helped redesign the cab and hoods as well as being able to fit a spare wheel rack behind the cab that could accommodate two spare wheels.

When the 2024 Off The Grid MotorStorm Festival was announced, Atlas had rebuilt the five unsold 3194s with a brand new custom-built Westminster-Madison twincharged and aftercooled V8, that was 17 liters in displacement, but gave the truck a hefty 2,000 horsepower with 1,165 lb-ft of torque. The truck's turbos were 130mm in diameter each, while an additional centrifugal supercharger was 120mm in diameter, and could also be fitted with a blower to yield an extra 200 horsepower and 150 lb-ft of torque.

The truck was also heavily reinforced with double-plated steel, and the pusher axle, as well as the rear axle was made steerable, at the price of making the two rear axles only have single tires instead of dually tires. The default 42-inch highway tires were replaced with 44-inch off-road tires, which would give the truck average grip on paved roads, but would give the truck unparalleled grip on rougher terrains.

## Gallery

Tribal livery (Driven by Blackfeather)Generic Camo livery (Driven by The Legend)Woodland camo livery (Player livery)Plain Olive Green livery (Player livery)Platt Logistics Livery (Player livery)Factory Yellow livery (Driven by Casket Dan)Gunnar Logistics Livery (Driven by Baz Johnson)
## Trivia

* It is visually identical to the Derry Longhorn 3194 which is based upon the 1971 Oshkosh M911. However, the Atlas 3194 has single tires on the rear axle, due to the fact that the truck has four-wheel steering, like all heavy hitcher trucks.
* The tribal livery that Blackfeather uses is based off of a DLC livery for the Derry Longhorn 3194 in *SnowRunner*, while the camo liveries are various camouflages used by the U.S. military.