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Full-scale vehicle crash testing is often used as an engineering tool to reproduce the dynamic conditions of real-world accidents. The complex and destructive nature of conducting these crash tests makes them very expensive. Often times engineering analysis requires multiple tests wherein occupant motion or vehicle component performance comparisons are made when subject to specific dynamic conditions. For these situations, sled testing becomes the preferred evaluation method. Sled testing allows engineers to reproduce the dynamic conditions of a full-scale crash test in a controlled environment at a fraction of the cost. A particular advantage of sled testing is that only a single vehicle is consumed. Typically the occupant compartment of the vehicle, referred to as a vehicle buck, is mounted to the test sled. The sled and buck can then be subjected to accelerations representative of a particular crash environment.