[fwayne]

Amazing. We forget how far things have progressed. Indeed this shook up a lot of truck design. Even in the 1980's trucks had seriously oversold capabilities. We used to operate tow trucks, and they were massively underpowered, and braking was a joke in stock form, and thats with the toughest 1-tons offered.. We had to modify a lot to make them work. Once Diesel engines in the 1990's became powerful, it forced trucks to become better built, better controlled and better equipped for real work.