What do you guys run? We got a dusting the other day and I could barely get traction with brand new snows on. I’m planning on making an H-frame out of 2x6’s or something.
Trucks are the worst in snow, I would put at LEAST 300lbs back there. Just remember more weight = more stopping distance.
I am assuming you have 2wd.
Typically sand. Cheap and non corrosive.
And handy for grit on the road if needed. 
I used to throw three sand tubes in my s10
No, 4wd ext cab. but it’s only a 1500 so it has electrical button and I don’t really trust it for ‘on the fly’ operation.
And yea, I was going to get some sand tubes. Lowes/HD?
I did sand tubes when I had my Ranger 2wd, though honestly I don’t think it helped much. Open Diffs are wonderful.
I never put sand in my Colorado 4wd, push button worked really well, faster engage them my Tacoma. Also had an Eaton mechanical locker was really good, like a God send compared to the Ranger.
And finally never put sand in my Tacoma 4wd, 4wd engage was slower then the Colorado. Mine was an '08 so it still had a limited slip diff, that was not driven by the truck using the breaks. This was as good as the Eaton locker on my Colorado.
Most likely to feel a difference you are gonna need to put several hundred pounds of anything in the back of your truck. Which, will increase stopping distances as others mentioned and will most likely eat into your already wonderful fuel mileage.
Chevy’s push button is pretty good, I found that for on the fly, I would hit the button, left off the gas for like 5s and you would hear/feel the 4wd lock in and back onto the gas.
3-6 tubes of sand depending on how much the truck will sag.
ive done sand before, also did big chunks of steel. one year in a dakota beater i packed the bed full solid of snow with a bobcat lol.
my neighbor said he has some railroad ties i can use, gonna see how much those weigh. i think 8ft ones are about 200 lbs so these ones will probably be around 150 a piece. might go with these in the ram this year. im more worried about the 275’s on it being too wide in the snow.
Yeah, go to Lowe’s and pick up a few tubes of sand. Seems to be the most common thing to do.
Weight works, I use to put 100+ lbs in the back of my old cavalier even with snow tires. Car would be much more stable and the back end wouldn’t float around.
I found out that having an 800cc snowmobile in the back helps with traction
6 tubes of sand in the aforementioned H frame, in the old 2wd S10 and it was awesome in the snow, even with a 3-4" drop. Make sure you have dedicated snows on it though, not NOseason tires.
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Move snow from your driveway to the bed of your truck when we get some
Last winter (in the few days there was actually snow on the ground), I found there to be no use for any weight in the back of my silverado, or 4wd for that matter. I had the stock bridgestone dueller’s, they were fantastic in the snow, and the traction/stability control actually seemed very functional, it was nearly impossible to lose control without turning it off.
<----Drove 2WD trucks for years and never put any weight in zee back. Never had a problem…well there was this one time, but I made a questionable decision about putting a pair of new tires on the front of my Ranger vs. the back, vs. all four… The Ranger was a '98 4pot 5spd, and I had an '02 Ram at one point. The Ram was really fun in the winter, what with the limited slip and being short wheelbase. I found that putting any weight in the back negatively affected the trucks ability to drift. All they wanted to do was plow…hard.