Anyone use Tube Sand in Winter?

Loving my 2020 CM limited. This is my first pickup truck. Debating if I should put some tube sand in the bed for traction/safety. If so how many pounds? Think bags come in 60-70lbs

 

folks usually add 150-200lbs

 

I usually just buy the water softener salt bag as weight, come spring it will save me a trip to Costco when I need to refill the salt. Saves me the trouble to try to store it, as these sand bags usually fall apart after each season.

 

I run 6 bags of gravel at #60 so 360lbs placed at the back half of the fender wells in the bed.

 

Trigger warning (the below statement is meant as a joke and looking to make people laugh - I am sarcastic by nature)

Be careful........we don't want to get into a payload debate here and god forbid we add that much weight without a transmission cooler...........

 

I have 300lbs over the axle of my CM with Defender LXT tires and drove 20 miles in 4" of snow in 2wd. I didn't even consider 4wd.

 

I have never in my life added weight to my bed but I am not in mountains or anything.

 

Let it fill up with snow and park it outside. Free bed weight.

I don't add anything to mine. Good snow rated tires would probably be a better solution.

 

I live in Maine and drive my Tundra and my work Silverado daily (drove in todays snow/ice storm several times back and forth to a job site, backroads, etc). If it sucks bad enough I use 4wd to help when needed and dont drive like meat head. I have BFGs on both trucks *cue falken arguments* and Im sure having chonk tires helps as well.

I did put 300# of sand in the trunk of my rwd 1990 Camaro with bald assed tires though.. That was a fun winter vehicle as a teenager

 

I keep about 200# up by the cab, in addition to the weight of the tool tray and cover. Seems to be a good setup.

 

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Anyone use Tube Sand in Winter?

I haven't tried this. Metamucil works pretty well.

 

I keep about 200 lbs of sandbags in the bed during the winter. I wedged a board in behind the wheel wells and I just drape the bags over it, and they almost always stay put.

The rest of the year, I usually leave 100 lbs in the bed to help with the bouncing.

 

I do. I keep 2 (60lb each) of them over the rear axle pushed up against the wheel wells.

I find it helps the truck feel more balanced on ice. Even with a topper, roof rack, box, gear, and snowtires (blizzak), the back end feels better when i have a little extra weigh back there and i notice less wheel spin in 2wd. I wouldn't say its required, but i feel it helps in dicey conditions.

 

I work in the third snowiest place in the United States. We don't use salt, and they only sand very sparingly in my area - usually in town. The road is essentially always either fresh powder, hard pack snow, or ice. I commute there every day from 35 miles outside the park. I haven't found the need for any additional weight in the Tundra. I throw it in 4 hi when the snow on the road is deeper than 6 inches or so. Other than that I just drive reasonably. The traction control and ABS systems are pretty incredible. The truck hasn't let me down yet.

 

Here's my work parking lot. Those walls are cut with a blower. That's not snow mounded up with an end loader or anything.

 

Expensive alternative, but I use dedicated rims with snow tires for winter use.

 

I should. My Bridgestone's suck in the snow. Should have asked for Michelins on my 20 inch rims.