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Once again, we've been cheated out of actual snow. We got an inch and now it's freezing rain which will last all day. I fully expect power outages. I've moved all of my vehicles out from underneath our trees.

Yet another threat of 6+ inches of snow. We'll see if it actually materializes this time.

I see a lot of complaints about the heat in these trucks. Mine works great, thank goodness.

Agreed, but illegal in Maryland and I have to work.

Bottom line is, there is no good vehicle for the current driving conditions- Patches of very thin, hard packed snow, water on the road that is in a constant state of thawing and re-freezing, creating black ice and patch ice. Today's driving conditions were worse, if anything. I took the truck...

I let it snow all day, then took it out. Transfer was is hi-lock. The snow was thin and icy, just the worst. The truck handled like a pig on skates but it was manageable. Conditions were bad no matter what you were driving. I would never drive my 5 ton in this... well, I'd at least let a...

Right-O. No ABS on these fellows. I already brake pretty gently in dry conditions. The HMMWV is so heavy and suffers from so much gear drag in the transmission and portal hubs that they naturally shed speed very quickly and don't need a lot of brake action if you bother to look more than 5...

In my case, it's a bit of a drive to a safe place to go slide testing, that's why I was looking for advance information. There is a VFW parking lot just 2 minutes from my house but I got the stink eye from them the last time I went sliding about in my commuter Subaru. If the parking lot is...

Ok, so the story is that HMMWVs are light in the rear and do not handle well in snow, especially thin snow. I only ever drove HMMWVs that had a heavy comms shelter in the back when I was in the Navy. Is this true or is the issue being exaggerated by the internet? If it is true, how much weight...