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Sweet and Sour Day

Howdy! What a sweet and sour day for sure. We rolled through the nonstop rain and wind across South Dakota. During the ride, we passed an open state weigh station. As we rolled through, the Motor Carrier’s Inspection Van was waiting for us. We got tagged and had to pull...

A new Friday

Howdy and welcome to a November Friday!  So it’s been a struggle moving to the new servers but we are making progress . We have been on the old Legacy server since we started our website back in 2008. Since then we have grown dramatically in website content size and...

Standby for now

Afternoon. Hope you enjoyed the ride through downtown Portland this morning. Lots of fog and autumn colors in our sights during the ride up from Rice Hill, Oregon to Olympia, Washington. We are parked at the closest truckstop to our delivery where we will take a break until we can...

A continuing effort....

While I am always trying to make the website easier to use, add more features, and make visiting BigRigTravels.com more pleasant to visit, I have updated the donations page. Previously, donations were only allowed using a PayPal account. I have finally caught up and adjusted the donation page to allow...

Sunday Video

Good morning. We will head over to the shipper and see if they will take us early. If not, we will probably have to wait until this afternoon. UPDATE … We dropped our empty trailer at the shipper . Our load won’t be ready until tonight , so we will...

Packing Up and Moving!

Afternoon ya’ll.Hope you enjoyed the daytime ride over the Sierra Mountains today. We are done with the overnight express runs for the time being. We had to stop short in Sacramento, California about an hour North of Stockton because of our extreme shortage on our 70 hour clock. We will...

Midnight Express!

Good afternoon daylight creatures! We picked up our load last night about 10pm and had to start driving through the night. Nope, not something I enjoy doing, but this trip is so tight it isn’t even funny. We are also hitting our 70 hour limit daily already. We ran 640...

Open OpEn OpeN

Attention! The revamped BigRigTravels Store has officially opened! More ways to pay! Easier store navigation! More items offered! Get your items ordered now and shipping STARTS the first week of November when I take my time off. Plenty of time for the upcoming holidays. First come, first served.

Denver Delivery

Morning Gang! We are on standby waiting for our delivery in Denver. Wait, what? We have a delivery in Denver? What happened to Nebraska? Well, we still are going to make our scheduled delivery in North Platte, Nebraska but we are actually waiting for a delivery to US! Yup, the...

Late going

Morning to ya.  Late start for us this morning . I am excited about the store changes and updates I’ve been able to accomplish. I finally fell asleep sometime after 2am lol. The store should open back up Monday night or first thing Tuesday morning with all items back in...

Mountains trip

Good morning. We are still in the dock door being unloaded. Usually  I post our next trip, but the clouds of doubt are looming because we might not make the next loading time. The next trip is supposed to send us over the Rocky Mountains and through Denver to pick...

Good morning

Howdy. This morning we drive straight to our delivery.  I am leaving early so we have tons of extra time to fight LA traffic.  Anybody want to do it for me? Yesterday I finally got to meet up with Mark and “C” while we entered into Nevada from Arizona.  They...