Safest Trucks

Car and Driver‘s rankings are arrived at from the results of our extensive instrumented testing of several hundred vehicles each year and from our expert editors’ subjective impressions gained in real-world driving. We’ve ranked the safest trucks based on data from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, and then rated each truck based on roughly 200 data points encompassing acceleration, handling, comfort, cargo space, fuel efficiency, value, and how enjoyable they are to drive. We take rankings seriously because we want you to know everything about the vehicles that you’re interested in. This list contains every truck that earned the IIHS’s Top Safety Pick award for 2025.