Tank transporters support more than tanks

Why does a shortage of tank transporters matter beyond moving tanks?

Because the same transporters move the formation's other armoured vehicles, a shortage restricts the mobility of the whole armoured force.

Tank transporters carry many kinds of armoured vehicle. A shortage therefore affects reconnaissance, engineering, support, and other tracked elements as well as main battle tanks. German limitations contrast with a British capacity described as sufficient to move roughly a brigade's armoured vehicles. The exact readiness of a division remains different from the ability to put one brigade on the road quickly. Strategic mobility is a force-wide logistics problem rather than a simple count of tanks and trailers.