What It's Like To Drive A Truck From Monster Jam
by Alanis King on Jalopnik, shared by Barry Petchesky from Deadspin > Sports News Without Fear, Favor or Compromise on (#3GM44)
By the time January rolled around, I had been begging to drive a giant, 12,000-pound Monster Jam truck for six months. When someone finally gave that idea the go-ahead, it was surreal. As if the reality of my longstanding request hadn't hit me before then, I realized that I actually had to drive one of these things.