Off-Road Trucks Buyer's Guide
These heavy-duty trucks are the modern equivalent of horse-drawn wagons and, eventually in the early 20th century, motorized wagons. In 1916, Mack introduced an off-road, chain-driven truck that set the standard for such vehicles. An Ohio company, Euclid, beefed up the off-road concept in 1934 with an 11-ton model. Articulated trucks arrived in the 1950s and ’60s—and eventually featured the all-important 4WD or 6WD propulsion. In the intervening years since then, manufacturers of the off-road vehicles have proliferated — including LeTourneau, Caterpillar, Volvo and Komatsu, to name a few.
