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    KNOWING   YOUR   AUDIENCE

    Jun 29, 2018 4 minutes
    Words Scott Evans
    Photographs
    Jade Nelson

    I know better. Driving from Las Vegas to Los Angeles on a Sunday afternoon is a circle of hell unto itself. After three days of touring wide-open interstates and empty state highways in Colorado and Utah, the soul-crushing, back-to-reality traffic leaving Las Vegas was an unwelcome end to a wonderful road trip. But I wasn’t nearly as frustrated as I normally would be. The easy-riding F-150 Power Stroke diesel gets a lot of credit for that.

    Normally, a pickup wouldn’t be my first choice for a 1,300-mile road trip. But in this case it makes perfect sense.

    Back in 2014, we set about updating our Truck of the Year competition to better represent

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