A Chevrolet One-ton (3500 model) with a four-door crew cab, an 8-foot bed and four-wheel drive. It has dual rear wheels (The athletes' joke: Joel doesn't have hips, but his truck does), a five-speed manual transmission, and a 454-cubic-inch fuel-injected Vortec V-8 engine.

It's a 1996, with 90,000 miles on it, and it's getting tired, but it's a heckuva truck When we tow, we get anywhere from five to eight miles per gallon, so we have about a 180-mile range between stops, a diesel truck might make 10-12 miles per gallon and run 300 to 400 miles on each leg.