Check Your Tandems: Owner Operator, Month 1

This is an “as-told-to”: The nearly-real time chronicle of a first-time truck owner. Keep in mind that this is all said from a general point of view. Simply to give you an idea of what owning a truck is really like. Some of the numbers aren’t accurate but ballpark figures. It’s just to give the…

Check Your Tandems: Why can’t I slide my tandems here?

Why do so many shipping and receiving yards care if you slide your tandem wheels? When driving a big truck with trailer into a shipping/receiving yard, in my trucking tenure I estimated that about a third of them required you to slide your trailer’s tandem wheels all the way to the doors. This was usually…