Trucking Blog Archive

Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.

Fields

Good morning from the middle of some big field out here in Othello, Washington! We are in our door now and hopefully they get us loaded quickly. This is going to be…

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Hood River Photos

Good morning to ya Road Crew! I had a good visit with my buddy “Oregon Wayne” yesterday as we roamed around the Hood River area in Oregon along the Columbia River! We…

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Rainy

Good morning! I had chicken fried steak last night for dinner. Not too bad but service was crummy. Not very crowded yet it took the waitress forever to notice me, then bring…

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Troutdale

Welcome to Troutdale, Oregon! We stopped here for the night since this is as close as we can get to our delivery. We ended up with just 17 minutes left on our…

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LA Grande

We are taking our thirty minute break right now in LA Grande, Oregon! It has been a wet and heavy cloudy day. We are rolling along just fine and on schedule for…

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Twin Falls

We ran as far as we had time to run for today! We did manage to get 271 miles out of the way so that makes tomorrow manageable:) Remember when we got…

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Short day

Morning! We are about to go pickup our load. We will get it weighed then hit the highway for about five hours since that is all we have to drive on our…

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You can call me…

Bobtail Bob! The delivery folks didn’t have an empty for us and I waited for an answer about if I bobtail to next shipper or spend the very few hours we have…

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Almost!

We are taking our 30 minute break just 106 miles from our delivery. We started out early this morning so we can hopefully make good time on the next trip. The sun…

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Laramie

We decided to shutdown for the night in Laramie, Wyoming after having driven 561 miles today. We are right on schedule for delivery tomorrow, so all is good! Tomorrow we will finish…

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Break

We have been rolling along just fine today but the wind has sure picked up the last fifty miles or so. We are at 355 miles so far  so we are more…

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603

Welcome to the Iowa and Nebraska state line…or close enough anyway! We managed to cover 603.8 miles today so I am very happy with that! Long day but easy. The sun is…

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