2WD's do just fine in the snow..All our city plow trucks are 2WD-DRW 1-tons..
Plows are all 2 wd here too. When you've got a front plow in front of you and a couple tons of sand/hopper on the back with the right tires you can do some damage. Turn that truck loose in a couple feet of fresh snow with no plow up front and he'll look like that picture pretty quick though.
Yeah most trucks in Texas are 2wd. Now the concrete cowboys will have an f-250 or F-350 jacket up, out fitted with light bars and yeti stickers. That once or twice trip to the lease or ranch requires it.
By being lifted, it’s easier to fill the corn feeders. lol
And most all of our UPS trucks are 2WD and deliver to backcountry towns like Elk City and Dixie..School buses are all 2WD/delivery trucks etc..Ilived in McCall Idaho for like 40 years and regularly had ro shovel out my windows for light but the kicker in this snow retreat is atleast half the town of locals drove 2WD trucks and cars...Most of the Alaska State troopers on TV are 2WD and they run down the bad guys in 4WD..Laughing..
Logging trucks are basically 2WD with an option to lock in another axle which id 2WD..They go in unbelievable places and haul out heavy loads on snow/ice and mud..To be fair,most have lockers and lock in that other axle but nothing up front pulling,it's all pushing..Most all the old road graders are 2WD but some new one can have AWD...
How in the world did they ever get by before 4WD was invented...But they did..
To each their own, but I would curl up and die if I couldn't have 4WD, even though I use it less than 1% of the time, even while out hunting.
When you need it, you need it. I don't buy that it'll only get me stuck further from help. I've used it way too many times to get out of a slimy area that I drove into early when the road was frozen, and came out after the sun came out and melted everything...among many other situations.
Getting out to put chains on to make it through a 10 yard long mud hole just doesn't make sense to me when I can just flip a switch instead. It does cost more and require more maintenance, but I am more than willing to take that trade off.
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South Texas and most of Texas simply doesn’t need 4x4. One reason is unless you own land you aren’t off roading. And even if you do there isn’t that far to go. And it almost never snows. Here we have millions of square miles of public land. Hard winters etc, the new truck dealers don’t sell 2wd here. You would have to special order it
Still, around here, most pickups are still 2wd, and most are Ford F 150s.
That applies here too. It seldom snows enough that a 4X4 is truly needed, and the majority of trucks are driven by people who seldom go offroad.
Same here. But personally I wouldn’t own a pickup that wasn’t 4-wheel drive.
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Growing up in the snowy North East everyone had at least one 4x4 Jeep, when I moved west for my wife job I stopped in a SoCal Jeep dealer to look for a used Jeep. Everything they used Jeep they had was 2 wheel drive what a waste.
To each their own, but I would curl up and die if I couldn't have 4WD, even though I use it less than 1% of the time, even while out hunting.
When you need it, you need it. I don't buy that it'll only get me stuck further from help. I've used it way too many times to get out of a slimy area that I drove into early when the road was frozen, and came out after the sun came out and melted everything...among many other situations.
Getting out to put chains on to make it through a 10 yard long mud hole just doesn't make sense to me when I can just flip a switch instead. It does cost more and require more maintenance, but I am more than willing to take that trade off.
This exact thing happened to me today...glad I didn't have to do any stupid chit to make it out of the hunting spot. Threw it in 4, cruised on until met pavement. Funny how some people scratch and claw to fight against progress...
This would have sucked in 2WD...
Also, going up rocky mountains in 2WD is extremely hard. 4 just crawls up...
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2wd = gay., add sand = gayer....4 wd = a working skinny man want ta b with sand kicked in his face...2wd with a locker and no gay jazz sandbags = MAN !