What is the current state of vehicles/mobile bases?

I'm a returning player after nearly 3 years of not playing and right now I'm on 0.f I believe and just wanted to ask what is the current state of vehicles?

Specifically is there an actual viable way to clear roads? Since even if I go with just a regular vehicle I just couldn't move them and going out to remove a path was far too tedious.

I want to ask this because vehicles even just lightly modified ones are necessary for looting from far away places and the inability to do that was the reason I stopped playing.

Back when I played I just couldn't get the tow cable to work no matter what and trying to push vehicles away even at minimum speeds would destroy your own vehicle