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Nah this looks like it happened in Arizona the pickup guys where from Texas

The governments fleet vehicles all need to be tested and meet emissions for were they are operating. I ran a vehicle management/maintenance shop on a military base with over 1400 vehicles. Had to smog everything that was capable of going on the road. We also had to pay Utah all the applicable emissions fees for each…

Even in SLC the downtown apprtments are extremely pricy for what you get and there are no grocery stores in down town. I lived next to the train station but if you wanted to go out in the city you still needed a DD cause the trains stopped running. Putting gas in a ford raptor was still cheaper than the train into…

It looks to me that the people lost it trying to pass the car stopped at the top of the hill. The ford truck didn't loose traction till it went to pass the stopped vehicle. When you loose forward momentum on a hill with low traction it's all over.

What about trucks transporting hazardous materials, or secure or classified cargos? Over sized loads. all these things still need to be shipped. Those vehicles still need humans on board for safety reasons. Buses except for things like air port shuttles will have drivers who are there for just incase and emergencies…

when I driving on road trips or to ranges etc. not for storage, some jurisdictions don’t allow you to have them in the cab. the Bed cover locks and is harder to break into than the cab , plus a few large cases and your filling up the back seat that might have people or gear that I want completely warm and not hot or…

I was a College student in Colorado in December 2008, I was going to Utah to ski in Utah with my Dad, little brother who went to the same school as me, and a few high school friends who where flying into meet us in Salt Lake City then head up to Park City. My little brother said that he didn’t want to drive at all but…

I agree on the snow tires, I have a $1300 set for my Ford Raptor they make all the difference and still have plenty of tread going on their 5th winter in a truck that has accumulated 100K miles (both summer and winter ) since they where put on. In fact following a summer time accident my 4x4 system was not properly…

Most Raptor owners I know use their beds frequently for the same sort of stuff most pickup owners do, I am usually transporting Ski gear, camping gear, guns, stuff from large shopping trips, emergency supplies for when i had to travel across remote areas especially in winter time, or a few cases of water in the…

Ford only makes one line with a non black B-pillar, the current supper duty the F150 has had black B-pillars since 2004 redesign), but all that will change when the new supper duty comes out this fall.

Yah I would get respatory issues every winter while I lived there. I miss the outdoors but if you want to live out of the smog and have a reasonable commute you have to pony up to live in park city. I had to get my truck smog tested every year while stationed in Utah despite having out of state plates.

I Put a set of studded Goodyear wrangler Duratracs for winter use, they do better in the deeps stuff and ice, they have been on every winter I’ve owned the truck, tired another brand of A/T which ended up being worse before switching to Nitto Trail Grabbers, they negatively effect the fuel economy and have a lot of…

Utah Idaho and Wyoming now have 80mph speed limits.

I would say 9 times out of 10 didn’t need 4x4. But there have been enough times that it’s easier to select 4x4 than not have it. The ground clearance that most 4x4 vehicles have helps as well. One trip to powder mountain I was in rwd in the Raptor and a coworker following me in a forester got stuck before we even left…

Most Utah ski areas require 4x4 to access legally. what roof box can equal the rear volume of a Chevy suburban sans the 3rd row or a F150 5.5 foot bed. (Skis go in at an angle) IDK what you didn’t understand about 8-16 pairs of skis. Additionally the Utah areas recive much more snow and are harder to keep clear.

It depends on a lot of factors. Most Colorado ski areas are off I70 which is well maintained interstate. Most Utah ski areas are up narrow canyons. Snowbird has had over 700 inches in a season while I lived there and averages over 500 Vail averages 350in a year. Powder mountain is up a narrow steep canyon and the…

As a raptor owner I can tell you that anyone with a lifted raptor is a moron. Throw off the trucks driving dynamics for not much more clearance. The truck rolls off the line at Dearborn on 35" tires.

The reality is that this thing will not sell any better than the last one. As a current truck owner and a Raptor owner at that I can tell you that the lack of a true 4x4 system is a big issue for most people in the west. Or anywhere it snows a lot. Most pick up owners I know are outdoorsman hunters skiers etc. I…

Drove a friends pervious when they came and visited me in Utah and the 4wd system kept disengaging above 25 mph which made the drive on I80 nearly impossible in a blizzard the lack of traction on parleys pass makes this vehicle useless to anyone who gets more than a light dusting of snow.