a slip system includes a set of drive slips having wickers thereon , substantially all of which being truncated in cross - section ; a set of gripping slips operatively interengagable with the set of drive slips ; a drive slip end ring in operable communication with the set of drive slips ; and a gripping slip end ring in operable communication with the set of gripping slips , the end rings capable of transmitting a load applied in an axial direction of the system to the set of gripping slips and the set of drive slips to tangentially load the set of drive slips and the set of gripping slips against each other thereby increasing a radial dimension of the system and distributing stresses created in a target tubular and method .