“Where the Rubber Meets the Road” is a phrase used to describe the most important point of something, or the moment of truth when all theories and speculation are put to a real-world test. The term comes directly from the contact between a vehicle’s tire and the surface it is on. It stems from the fact that all a vehicle’s fancy suspensions and sophisticated technologies can amount to next to nothing if the tires are substandard.
Tires are, in fact, the only thing that connects a road-going vehicle to the world around it. Yet they are often the…
Winter in Northern Nevada is unlike any other winter. One day, 
