It’s almost a rite of passage as a kid: those toy cars will, sooner or later, see a mud pit that will ultimately be roof-deep. Those plastic machines see all sorts of hell: splashing through puddles, dodging anthills and sidewalks, but it was the mud that they never truly recovered from, was it? It was the ultimate torture test and not every toy made it out alive. That’s kind of what this is like. This is called a “truck trial” and it’s an Eastern European/Russian kind of deal where the trucks are absolutely massive four, six, and eight-wheel-drive units powered by diesels that smoke like a coal fire gone out of control and don’t so much travel offroad as they subjugate the terrain to their liking. Or, in other words, these are the kinds of trucks that Lohnes dreams about when he’s sleeping like a baby.
Here, you’ll see these monsters go play in a mud pit that is deep enough for a normal human to swim in…we are talking a Ural flatbed that is so far underwater that the fan is slinging muddy water out of the cooling vents while water rushes out of the doors deep. Unlike mega trucks, it’s a good bet that what you’ll see running here will be at work in a few days, still chunking out excess mud. You have to hand it to the Russians, they made some brutal work vehicles!
