I use the Park MQ-1 on most axle nuts. With the cross style you can use both hands to loosen those majorly over-torqued axle nuts. Or I use an appropriate
sized socket and a
breaker bar. Combination, box- or open-end wrenches are some of my last choices. Those happy wrenches (ratcheting box ends) look really useful but having full sets of metric, SAE, and offset versions of them they are usually only good in certain situations, and ratcheting end should never be used to loosen or tighten anything. I've snapped a couple of the ratchet pawls in them. They'd be my last choice for a basic shop wrench