Trucking Blog Archive

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

Twin Falls

Morning! We had another very early start this morning as we went to pick up our loaded trailer then we had to drive to delivery asap. We are second in line to…

Read archived post →

Early!

Evening Road Crew! I know I am late getting the blog updated but we had to leave very early this morning then made a beeline for the delivery. I could not believe…

Read archived post →

Peggy

Welcome to Las Vegas, Nevada! We don’t really have enough time left to get to the next set of truckstops so looks like we get to shutdown here for the night. Peggy…

Read archived post →

Traffic

On man, horrible afternoon traffic coming out of the LA area! We have used a large amount of hours fighting traffic. I was really beginning to wonder if I was even going…

Read archived post →

Remind me…

…to not ask for California again! Delivery went OK but when we got to the next shipper it was the wrong address! Then I had to find a place to sanitize the…

Read archived post →

Aargh!

Well right now we are in the door being unloaded. Just two miles from delivery I took a wrong turn and headed in the wrong direction!! Man, I hate that something horrible…

Read archived post →

We did it!

We made it to our goal of Barstow, California for the night! We only had ten minutes left and I was getting concerned if I was going to make it! We pulled…

Read archived post →

Break

Howdy! It sure is beautiful out here along interstate 40 as we roll west past Flagstaff, Arizona! We are taking our 30 minute break then we will keep rolling. Fantastic scenery and…

Read archived post →

2 minutes

We went as far as we could and ended up with only two minutes left on our clock! We had a tire changed at midnight then grabbed our load and hit the…

Read archived post →

Cowboys!

Cowboys and cattle cages! We arrived in Dodge City with our boots on and our six shooter in the holster! We dropped our empty trailer but our load was not ready. We…

Read archived post →

Train!

Welcome to Hays, Kansas where we are currently being unloaded. We had to wiggle to the loading dock on a dirt road right next to a train that was passing by! Our…

Read archived post →

Limon

Well we started our next load with a trailer washout, picked up the load, then made our way 100 miles down the road. We simply do not have enough hours on our…

Read archived post →