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…

Nuclear bombs and horseshoes: The best “almost” duos in NBA history

  Which NBA duo was the best in league history, that never won the title while playing together?  We’re talking about two basketball players, on the same team, who were or are all-timers by most anyone’s discernment. Two players who ran into some type of roadblock on their way to a championship, whether that stumbling…

Check your tandems | Trucker Logs: Slip seat

Part memoir, part tall tale, part instructional manual: Chris DeBrie’s “Check Your Tandems” is from the perspective of a truck driver as he moves from newbie “greenhorn” to seasoned professional. What is “slip seat trucking”? It is for the tractor trailer driver who does not own a truck. This variety of driver is known as a…