Ram trucks wore the top truck mantle bestowed by Consumer Reports last year, but the Chevrolet Silverado has made that coronation fleeting, stealing the pinnacle in the publication's pickup truck ratings this year.
The top truck listings come in another month.
L.A., where people buy more Chevy trucks than in top truck towns Dallas or Houston.
Maina Chibok, who did not witness the attack in Gumskiri but is from the village and visited her family there shortly afterwards, said: "They gathered the people, shot dead over 30 people and took away more than 100 women and children in two open top trucks".
We help load the bob on a flat-top truck to drive back to the start.
"TODAY Zawiya, tomorrow Tripoli," cried a rebel fighter as he jumped into his open-top truck and drove across an unprotected plain stretching from a dusty mountain range down to the Mediterranean coast.
It was the final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's election and as Mr Abhisit made his way through the streets of Bangkok yesterday morning on the upper floor of an open-top truck, he was in no position to turn down an act of kindness from anyone.
This is how the government keeps the road open – conscript soldiers and a series of flying columns, open-top trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and soldiers cowled behind scarves to protect them from the desert wind.
Throughout that journey I kept seeing small groups of men, sometimes laughing as they ambled together along the roadside, sometimes riding bicycles or travelling on the back of open-top trucks, all dressed in the same distinctive pink cotton shirts.
In Yangon, the main city, open-top trucks tour the streets to be drenched by what amount to water-cannon fired from temporary road-side pavilions sponsored by local businesses.As each day lurches on, Myanmar's drenchers and drenchees alike lose most of their inhibitions and all of their sobriety.
Mr. Sieg, a lean man with a pin-straight mustache, had been leading me around a small cluster of buildings and galvanized steel storage bins, showing me how popcorn, arriving from the field in a steady stream in open-top trucks, would be cured to the hard, smooth kernels we see in the store.
