i'm mark williams for pickup trucks dot com and we're here in Michigan for the first
half of our ultimate heavy-duty challenge
we're doing both three-quarter-ton and one ton trucks with payload with
trailers on the road track testing everything everything you want to know
about these pickup trucks here we have the won tons
let's see how they did this HD comparison test is very different than
some of our past competitions because of the size and scope of these pickups
we've decided to break this pickup trucks . com competitive event into two
separate weeks for week one we did all of our testing in Michigan where we
started our HD challenge at a NHRA sanction drag strip about 30 miles south
of ann arbor we did both 0 to 60 and quarter mile acceleration runs both
empty and loaded and four are loaded runs
we used a 16,000 pound gooseneck double axel engineering trailer that basically
had a whole bunch of 500 pound ingots loaded out over the rear axles after our
day at the drag strip
we headed to gm's milford proving grounds where we conducted our wide open
throttle runs up a seven point two percent grade collecting both 0 to 40
times off the line and quarter mile times all the way to the top of the hill
climb at the end of our proving ground day we ran 60 20 brake test runs in
three different ways first completely empty
no trailer second with our 16,000 pound trailer connected with the benefit of
trailer brakes and third with the trailer connected without the benefit of
trailer brakes just to see how these trucks would compare our second week of
testing started in Las Vegas where we required each of the three truck makers
to bring us the exact trucks we had
a week 1 testing this time we'd be talking flat bed gooseneck load trail
double axle trailers with payload weighing about 20,000 pounds
our first test in week two is a flat-out run bottom to top at the infamous Davis
damn Hill Climb where we also conducted exhaust brake testing after Davis Dam
we told our monster trailers with our one turbo diesels along the i-70 to the
Eisenhower grade and dylan colorado for another wide open throttle bottom to top
run and exhaust brake test in all we tested each turbo one-ton dually very
near their max gcw number in 19 different scored events of course we
added to that numerical total our three judges scores for each truck splitting
the empirical and qualitative scoring 6535
so here are the results finishing in third place is the 2015 ford f-350
powerstroke even though at 17 of 19 events and many of those flat out
acceleration runs it just could not keep up with the better suspensions road feel
and interiors of the GMC and the ram heavy duty finishing in second place is
the 2014 ram heavy duty 3500 comments that did exceptionally well in all the
big distance polls offering the strongest most confident and comfortable
talking experience of the group
our judges especially like the quality interior and its high-tech features
unfortunately it did not do well enough as an all-around superstar
so it didn't get more points and in first place the 2015 GMC sierra 3500 HD
duramax winning almost half of all the competitive events and placing first
with two of our judges in our expert scoring the GMC was our best all-around
player doing just about everything well
if not winning the important categories out right
congrats to all of our competitors for making this 2014 ultimate one-ton HD
challenge a huge success but a special compliment to our winner
the 2015 GMC sierra 3500 HD pickup trucks dot-coms overall winner
so that's a wrap for our 2014 ultimate heavy-duty challenge for all the specs
and details go to pick up trucks . com
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