Just purchased DP and wander if it will have more traction that a gas model on back roads and in bad weather than a gas model with front engine and rear wheel drive. Hope to be able to use forest serv...
In a 30K pound DP, I wince when I drive off pavement. You can crush culverts in residential driveways. When it rains at the Perry FMCA rally they bring in big articulated front end loaders to pull DPs out of the mud.
In state parks and fed parks I usually trust the road bed. It's the trees, clearance and site length I run into problems with. I am switching back to a 28-30 TT and a truck when man up and eat my depreciation.