Many pickup truck manufacturers recommend using a weight-distribution hitch when towing over a certain trailer weight. Half-ton trucks like the Ford F-150 and Ram 1500 typically recommend a ...

Half-ton pickup trucks have been getting stronger in terms of frame strength and towing capacity for the past several years. These improvements are pushing the limits on what a traditional half-ton ...

Leave it to Hennessey to think the Viper engine didn’t have enough power for the SRT-10 to be as fast as they want. They ...

Living in Los Angeles, we're used to seeing people who own and drive pickup trucks mostly because they want to, and that's fine. But for many, driving a truck isn't so much a matter of "want" but of ...

Shoppers with above-average towing needs require pickup trucks with above-average durability and torque output. Most of today's largest SUVs can tow around 9,000 lbs, with many half-ton pickups ...

You’ve surely seen the war for half-ton-towing bragging rights on dozens of prime-time commercials by now. It all started back at the 2006 Chicago auto show, when Toyota promised a towing capacity of ...

Everyone knew when Ford revealed the 14th-gen, 2021 F-150 that it’d be the most powerful and capable yet. As the Blue Oval released Tuesday morning, the half-ton truck will boast a best-in-class max ...

Chrysler Group will announce Thursday that it will offer a diesel in the standard-duty Ram 1500 pickup in the third quarter this year, making it the first modern half-ton pickup in the U.S. market ...

Lots of truck owners cheered when GM announced fuel economy numbers for the 2020 Chevrolet Silverado with the 3.0-liter Duramax diesel inline-six. Even after Ram let loose its EPA mileage ratings for ...

Things to note; the "maximum payload" and "maximum towing capacity" don't necessarily reflect specs of the same truck, it's a pure "top end." Some models had lower payload maxes to get the highest max ...

When Mike Levine at Pickuptrucks.com sets his mind to something, it gets done in a big way. Witness last year’s 2007 Heavy-Duty Diesel Truck Shootout. This year he’s back with a comparison test that ...

Ford announced today that the all-new 2021 will carry with it the claims of best-in-class towing, payload, and torque. Maximum towing has increased by 800 pounds over the outgoing model to a ...