We like this truck...I like this truck...and I like riding around in it...broadcasting live. (Did I mention we can transmit LIVE from this moving truck?!)

Anyhow, the way "StormKING" works is simple: the passenger -- usually a reporter -- puts a lapel microphone on...and slides into his or her comfy seat. Up there on the rearview mirror is a little "lipstick" camera...pointed directly at the passenger. On the front side of the review mirror is another lipstick camera...pointing out the front windshield.

When the anchor back in the studio introduces the reporter in "StormKING"...the viewers at home see the reporter sitting there in the passenger seat. The reporter says something like, "Hi everyone...the roads are rough today....blah, blah, blah" and, as soon as possible, the reporter pushes a button that switches the view from the camera-pointing-at-the-reporter to the camera-pointing-down-the-road.

That's all the easy, fun stuff.

Video: Tim Robinson's StormKING report

The frustrating part is two-fold: a) finding an area where there's actually something newsworthy to show viewers and, b) making sure that our live (!!) signal can broadcast from the area you've found.

So, when you see a reporter in "StormKING," you only see them for, oh, about one minute or so. But that doesn't mean that's all the work they do. They've probably spent a couple of hours searching for locations...testing the live signal...making sure it all works...and is worth it for the viewers.

One of the odd things about "StormKING" assignment is that you're actually going out in search of danger. You're looking for icy roads. When we find them, we have to drive VERY carefully...so as not to get in a wreck...and also so we won't make the boss mad.

We also have to explain to viewers that we're going slower than the speed limit, because taking the view from that lipstick camera pointed out the window...makes it look like the vehicle's going a lot faster than it really is.

I spent a couple of days this stormy, icy, snowy week sitting on my duff in "Storm KING." On Tuesday, November 28, we drove around the Wallingford neighborhood...Phinney Ridge...Queen Anne and West Seattle. All of those areas were bad! Drivers in those places -- like drivers any and everywhere around the Sound -- had to take it super slow in some super dangerous conditions!

On Thursday, November 30, we drove around Queen Anne and West Seattle...in decidedly different conditions. The roads were no longer icy. The temperature had gone up enough to melt just about all the ice in the area.

Worst Thing We Found: on ice-day, a car on Queen Anne that tried to pull out of its parking place...only to slide nose-first directly into another car...then the first car's back-end slid a little more until it hit ANOTHER car. So, basically, the original car was sandwiched bumper-to-bumper between the other two cars.

Funniest Thing We Found: on thaw-day, someone had built a snowman right out in the middle of Queen Anne Avenue. When we broadcast live at 5 a.m., we were able to show viewers Mr. Snowman. By 8 a.m., as we drove by Mr. Snowman...all that was left of Mr. Snowman was a little mound of slush with a tire track down the middle. Poor Mr. Snowman.

Lastly, there was a controversy about "Snow KING."

We didn't know what to call it! Our morning helicopter is TrafficKING and our evening helicopter is SkyKING.

If we had a boat it would be SeaKING and if we had a train it would be RailKING. What do we call this thing?

Once, I saw my colleague Jim Forman broadcasting from this truck and he said, at the end of his live report, "From "SnowKING", I'm Jim Forman."

Well, I thought: calling it "SnowKING" is limiting. Because we can broadcast live (live, I tell you!) from this baby anytime! Rain, snow, sunshine....all the time.

So...I called it "RoadKING." Our morning anchors Joyce Taylor and Brad Goode seemed to like the name...so that's what we called it.

But then, the boss intervened. He put the word out: "StormKING" it's "StormKING."

That may be true...but it will always be KING of the road in my heart.

What do you think?