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I agree with IdaSHO. Only I wouldn't even mess with a 3/4 ton, and just get a 1 ton. Doubt you'll be able to tell the difference in ride between the two, and the price difference is minimal. But the extra capability may come in handy when in the future your needs change again. Also - if...

And here were my choices yesterday...glad I wasn't driving my diesel. Haven't seen gas prices like what you have since the last President was in office!

Extra plies in the tread area make a big difference as far as protection from rock breaks. Here's a shot of the construction of the LT-E tires I run on my 4x4 van: All too many tires have only 4 or 5 plies in the tread and they don't hold up as well on rocky roads. Tires with 7 plies in the...

^ This, without a doubt, is the best off-highway accessory!

In the below photo is a typical Nevada desert road...nice and wide and smooth except where a lot of water cut a deep gully in it. Too deep to cross by going straight across it - vehicle (even my lifted Wrangler in the pic) will just land on its undercarriage. You can cross these washouts (2'...

Not an option for me...hard to find a tree most times!

Absolutely! For me the best part is when I'm high on some ridge looking down into a deep canyon and one of those F-18s comes barreling down through the canyon and I'm looking DOWN onto the jet below me. Now that's cool! Even watching them bomb one of their targets is neat. How many people...

There's a recent video of a Toyota 4Runner rolling over on Black Bear Pass on an off-camber section. Would you really want to take a pickup/camper combo, tall and has all that weight up high, through there? Not me! I bought a dually to haul my camper - and that's for very mild off-camber...

If you spend a lot of time driving gravel or rocky dirt roads you need an "E" rated tire. Not just "E" rated but with the maximum number of plies in the tread area. My experience has been that the "E" rated Toyo Open Country M/T tires, and the Maxxis Razr tires (there may be others, I don't...

Widest part of any heavy duty truck, be it SRW or DRW, is the mirrors. (I'm talking about the tow mirrors 95% of heavy duty trucks are equipped with.) Yes, the bed of a DRW truck is wider than that of a SRW. But if the mirrors on the cab fit, say through a narrow drive-thru, then those rear...

If you'll be driving dirt roads then LT is a must. Case in point: I'm a member of a Sheriff's Search and Rescue team. Our SAR vehicles are all shod with LT tires. A few days ago we were called out on a search in a very remote area. The Sheriff's deputy accompanying us was driving a new Ford...

Yup! I have a dually with a cabover camper mounted on it...and a 4x4 E350. If I take the truck/camper combo I always need to drag a trailer behind it for the "toys". So there's only so many places I can take it. A motorcycle or quad fits nicely inside the van. AND I can take the van into...

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If you ride a lot of beaches...or desert with soft sand...can't beat the TW. Those fat tires help a lot. Got a couple friends that ride those and swear by them. I ride an XT225 myself...but I stay away from sand.

My old Dodge/Cummins dually has thousands of off-highway miles on it, most of the time loaded as seen in the pic below. I had the camper on a SRW truck before and there's just no comparison in how much more stable the dually is, especially when on an off-camber side hill. Never once have had a...

All depends on where you wheel. Pizza cutters wouldn't do well on some of the roads I need to drive: And do you really think Matt would do better with skinny tires in this situation?

My Jeep has been shod with skinny LT255/85R16 tires for most of its life. Work great...except in the soft blow sand we have a lot of around here!

Been driving my 2007 E350 V10 for 15 years now. Overall mpg since I bought it (calculated by an Excel spreadsheet where I enter all data) is 11.8 mpg. 33" tires, and 4.56 gears. Not one single problem with the engine or transmission.

If you are mounting the tablet up there to use as a GPS you may run into a problem. When I did that in my E350, using either a Garmin Montana or a Nuvi GPS unit, I had to attach an external antenna for the GPS to get a good signal from the GPS satellites. Does the tablet have an external...