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Description
If Detroit’s heavy-duty truck pitches are any indication, buyers in this league are most concerned about hauling, towing and power capacities. The manufacturers’ respective stats in these categories permeate virtually all of their print, broadcast and Web advertising as if achieving numerical superiority represents the sole difference between success and failure. Well, there’s a lot more too it than that.