TrucksRealTruck Review: Returns, Freight, Warranties and Who Owns It
Truck Extended Warranty: What Changes Above 8,500 PoundsEvery three-quarter-ton pickup is rated above the weight at which the FTC’s Buyers Guide stops being required, and the curb weight clause catches half-tons too. What the door-jamb label decides, and what the complaint file cannot tell you.
Used Pickup Truck Buying Guide: Start With the ConfigurationThe federal record knows a used pickup’s engine better than it knows its bed. Bed length came back on 2.3 per cent of 4,903 decoded pickups; curb weight on 0.8.
Towing Mirrors: The Accessory With a Legal DimensionA truck that is perfectly legal empty can stop being legal the moment a wide trailer is hitched to it.
Towing Capacity: The Advertised Figure Is Not Your Truck · 20 min
Diesel Exhaust Fluid: The Derate Is Federal, Not Punitive · 28 min
Buying a Classic Pickup Truck: What to Verify Before You Pay · 14 min
Diesel vs Gas Trucks: Pros and Cons (2026 Update) · 15 min
Pickups are bought for a job, so the buying decision should start with the job rather than the badge. These guides work through the questions that actually determine whether a used truck suits you: what you tow and how often, whether a diesel’s fuel and maintenance economics ever repay its price premium at the mileage you drive, what payload really means once passengers and a hitch weight are counted, and which components on high-mileage work trucks are expensive enough to walk away from. Heavy-duty pickups sit outside EPA fuel-economy labelling, so we explain how to estimate running costs without it.