If the Drives Are Heavy, Slide the Tandems: Trucker Tee

This is the fix, said the way a driver says it. If the drive axles under the tractor weigh too much, you move the trailer's tandem axles forward and weight transfers off the drives and onto the trailer. It is the one piece of applied physics that separates a driver who gets weighed and rolls on from a driver who gets weighed and sits.

Out of context it is gym advice. Heavy, drives, slide: the whole sentence reads like a lifting cue or a golf tip, and people nod along with total confidence. Inside the job it reads as competence rather than complaint, which is why it works as a crew gift.

Set like an instruction plate riveted to a machine, headed AXLE LOAD ADJUSTMENT, with CHECK PINS LOCKED BEFORE MOVING beneath it. The sentence always prints whole. It is an instruction, and half an instruction is worse than none.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.