How to drive off-road in a group: picking travel partners, radio comms, the lead vehicle and Tail End Charlie, spacing, the concertina effect and dune convoys.
Scott Brady of Expedition Portal and Overland Journal has written Overlanding 101, a 15-chapter field guide to vehicle-based travel for beginners and advanced overlanders alike.
We put ChatGPT to the test for trip planning: entry requirements, kit, vehicle prep and navigation, what it gets right and how to ask it the right way.
Off-road trailers explained: the pros and cons, the main types from load trailers to off-road caravans, example makers, DIY builds, hitches and what to look for.
Satellite internet is one way to get fast internet on the road, and by now Starlink is a real alternative to local SIM cards or slow wifi. But how well does it actually work in practice for travellers? We asked two who use it on the road and at sea.
At Scheinwerfer LUXX we get a lot of questions about high beam. In those conversations we also notice plenty of assumptions and gaps in knowledge. So in this article we want to tell you everything you need to know about high beam on your vehicle.
Rims are a far broader topic than you'd think at a glance. Everyone has at least four of them on their car, but hardly anyone knows much more about them than that the rim is round and sits between the tyre and the axle. We're about to change that.
Tom Sheppard's Four-by-four Driving is a standard work on all-wheel-drive technology and off-road driving techniques, from wading to recovery, over 245 pages.
Tom Sheppard's Vehicle-dependent Expedition Guide is a classic 600-page reference on 4x4 expeditions, covering the vehicle, gear, navigation, recovery and team planning.