You often hear how a manufacturer runs their new, upcoming vehicle through batteries of tests before the first vehicle is ever sold to the public or even lent out to the press. What you don’t get to see a lot of are the tests themselves. Sure, you know about crash testing, suspension tuning, durability tests and destructive testing, but there are other fun tests that have to be brought into the equation depending on what kind of vehicle it is. Take Ford’s 2017 Super Duty line…this is a truck that, ever since 1998, has been used by everyone from people who confuse a 3/4-ton or better pickup with a commuter car all the way to military users, and everything in between. The heavier-duty Ford truck has to be ready to deal with anything that an operator can throw at it, be it towing, hauling, or in this case, handling the weight of a large slide-in camper while some brave, sorely underpaid test driver flings the truck that is packing this rig around on a test track somewhere in Arizona. What does this do, besides constantly remind this poor helmeted soul to kiss his wife and kids? It tests out Ford’s Roll Stability Control system, which is meant to keep the truck from going turtle in a sudden maneuver, and it also can showcase issues with suspension tuning that might not appear in an unloaded truck. Those outriggers are meant to keep the truck from going over during testing, and that’s a good thing…you couldn’t pay us to get behind the wheel and do this otherwise.