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mbloof
Mar 15, 2023Explorer
Ahhh the age old questions that nobody ever seems to agree on:
What is a road?
What is 'off road'?
What is a 'jeep trail'?
Roads come in many flavors. Everything from very smooth paved interstate highways to secondary roads (with and without potholes) to well/not groomed gravel (with and without potholes) to flat dirt to uneven/rutted and potholed dirt.
My personal dividing line is that if it is on a ROAD MAP (or USGS map) I call it a road. If not, it must be something else.
IMHO that OEM trucks are simply NOT designed to be hauling +4KLBS down jeep trails and creek beds.
Of course that does not stop anyone from doing it.
- Mark0.
What is a road?
What is 'off road'?
What is a 'jeep trail'?
Roads come in many flavors. Everything from very smooth paved interstate highways to secondary roads (with and without potholes) to well/not groomed gravel (with and without potholes) to flat dirt to uneven/rutted and potholed dirt.
My personal dividing line is that if it is on a ROAD MAP (or USGS map) I call it a road. If not, it must be something else.
IMHO that OEM trucks are simply NOT designed to be hauling +4KLBS down jeep trails and creek beds.
Of course that does not stop anyone from doing it.
- Mark0.
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