The list of places where you do not want to drive a semi-truck is actually pretty small. They’re pretty capable outside of a handful of . Deep river beds? Bad idea. Barely frozen lakes? Horrible idea. Somewhere on that list is “axle deep in beach sand.” Worse things have happened but…. Seriously, what did the think […] More »

When I was in high school. I always associated big trucks with the cool guys and jocks who got all the girls.  That was in the early 2000s.  These days, it seems Ford is proud to make its trucks a little more book-wormy.  Its 2015 Super Duty lineup is the head of its classes, depending […] More »

While Ford, Toyota, GM, Chrysler, and Nissan said they would adopt the SAE J2807 in 2009, only Toyota would use it on current model trucks. Now, it seems, all manufacturers will adopt the SAE J2807 standard to rate the towing capacity of their light duty pickups for the 2015 model year and on thanks to […] More »

Here’s a look at something that impacts our safety: trailer sway control. Vehicle stability control systems have come a long way, and now that they are on pickup trucks, they have the task of controlling trailer sway as well as vehicle stability while towing. How far can the truck’s stability control system go toward controlling […] More »

We’ve seen the Ford F-150 put through some challenging towing situations, but this is a challenging towing situation to end all challenging towing situations. The video clip below, which comes from this week’s episode of Top Gear, features Tanner Foust in a King Ranch F-150 pulling an airliner around what looks like Ontario International Airport […] More »