Well, we got our first good snow, and this is my first winter with a 2wd/RWD truck. I'm quite surprised, I think it does pretty well. Obviously there was some slippage, but not much as long as ya take it easy. I will definately say there is more stopping power than there is go power with my truck, the brakes worked like a charm. I took it out for a testdrive and did a power break going down a hill with about 3-4" of snow under me, and there was minimal slipping, and it kept a straight line. I'll probably throw some snow in the bed to go along with the sand I've got in the toolbox, every little bit probably helps, but I think i'm ready for just about anything.

 

Glad your added weight helped out. If you use snow as you suggest, get it from the yard and not from a pile as road salt will slowly melt whats in the box and you do not want that salty mixter eating at the bed.

I'm sitting in the snowless belt in WI. We have snow most everywhere but in the MadCity where the temps are forecasted to be -8 tonight!

 

That sucks, my view is, if its gonna be cold, there should be snow!

The snow I'm using is from our driveway, it was fresh snow and we've never used salt, so I think I'm good, but next batch will probably come from the yard.

I'm surprised the Wrangler HP's did as well as they did, I was really scared as to how they would perform. They arent snow tires by any means, but they did better than I thought.

 

Hope to go play in the snow tomorrow as we plan to visit my mother who lives in west central WI. The snow fall she received recently measured over 7", and with the cold temps, I'm guessing it's still around.

I'm running Wrangler SR-A tires which have been good in mud so far. Brown is dull and boring, enjoy the pristine color of the new fallen snow.

 

I got 7 60lbs tube bags of sand from Home Depot for like $3.70 a piece. The extra weight really helps around these parts. My first winter driving a RWD vehicle too. Hasn't been too bad so far, but we're just getting started

 

Weeeeeeeeeeeeell.....we're up to about 7-8" right now. I took the Ram out for another drive around, things are a bit different, not too bad. As long as there has been some traffic on the road (I'm not the one breaking the trail), its no different. That extra 2-3" killed it though if you're the first going down a road. Its not TOO bad until I had to go up a hill. My speedo was reading about 65 and I was barely crawlin. I almost got stuck at the bottom of it but gave it some gas, whipped the back end around and GOT THE HECK OUT OF THERE.

Not too bad, it seems my only limitation so far is being the first to drive up a hill with 8" of untouched snow.

 

I'm in Chicago and we got our first 3-4" the day before Thanksgiving. I was pretty surprised how well mine handled it. It was pretty squirrelly in 2wd but 4wd straighted it right out...anyway, I couldn't bring myself to trade in my 99 Wrangler when I bought the Ram, so it's still around for the real deep stuff.