Two Trucks Down Deep in the Utah DesertMatt's Off Road Recovery got a call to pull two stuck vehicles off a trail out in Moab, Utah. Both belonged to Cody Detwiler, the YouTuber known online as WhistlinDiesel, who has built a following around pushing expensive vehicles well past their limits. This time, a Tesla Cybertruck and a Ford F-150 ended up stranded deep in the rocks. The recovery started rough. On the long drive out, the crew's main recovery vehicle suffered a mechanical failure when a plastic intercooler boot cracked under pressure. The team swapped in a metal replacement and pressed on to the trailhead.The Ford Came FirstThe crew started by targeting the damaged F-150. Working on the trail, they cut away mangled suspension parts with a portable welder, bolted a spare tire onto the front hub, and hauled the truck back to the staging area. Matt figured the harder job was still ahead. As he put it, even with the first truck done, he did not think they were halfway there. The Cybertruck was heavier, sat further in on the trail, and the crew didn't know how it worked.Fighting the Cybertruck's SoftwareThe electric pickup was completely immobilized, and a locked transmission made simply dragging it impossible. Rudy dug through the truck's touchscreen menus and found a towing setting that forced the transmission into Neutral. Hooking up to the front pull points started a fight against the truck's own programming. The software capped speed at 5 mph and aggressively locked the brakes on descents, which caused the heavy chassis to slide sideways toward the edge of the trail. Matt made clear he was frustrated, saying the truck kept locking the brakes with a long way left to go, so the crew changed strategy. The fix was to lift the front tires off the ground, which tricked the computer and let the wrecker move across the remaining obstacles at speed. Getting the heavy electric pickup back down onto the asphalt capped a three-hour battle. Between the terrain and the software lockouts, the job proved that old-school towing tactics can still get the better of complicated modern programming.Sources:Matt's Off Road Recovery Rescues WhistlinDiesel's Cybertruck In Moab
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