Anyone interested in this kind of thing, I recommend the YouTube channel "Les Routes de l'Impossible" [0]. Their videos are in French and the auto-generated subtitles can be a bit er... random... But it's amazing to see how the various drivers have to battle through all kinds of conditions in vans and trucks which are often little more than scrap, held together with string and snot. Watch a few of those and you'll never complain about your car's squeaky brakes again.