Giant Eagle
Good Sunday morning to all! Many thanks for all the emails and birthday wishes! Yup, 51 today! We started out pretty early this morning and dropped our trailer at the delivery. We…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
2×14
Evening gang! Very long day once again which makes two 14 hour days in a row. We drove about 120 miles to the shipper, fought with an old trailer, then climbed the…
Read archived post →Discombobulated!
Good morning everyone! Well we decided to leave early and get to the delivery in hopes they would take us early. Things got a little discombobulated getting here on these skinny back…
Read archived post →Sultry
Welcome to sultry South Carolina! Yea I know, we stopped early lol. Actually, from here to the delivery is US highway 378 and I show nothing for truckstops. Add that we are…
Read archived post →Hot!!!
It sure is hot and muggy around here! We rolled into our delivery and will be here a few hours. I guess the camera I use for the live video feed needs…
Read archived post →Memphis
Welcome to West Memphis, Arkansas just across the river from “the real Memphis”! I figure this would be a good place to park since it is about halfway and we can’t deliver…
Read archived post →Ready?
Good Morning! They worked on our truck until about midnight….then they got it fixed! 🙂 Turns out there was a broken wire in the harness under the cab sandwiched above the fuel…
Read archived post →Dealer
Morning! Well at some point today we will go to the dealer, or another repair place….. So, for the last few weeks, I have been looking at a way I could cook…
Read archived post →Gee whiz…
So here is what is going on: yesterday we picked up a preloaded trailer. When I hooked up to it, I noticed the power receptacle on the trailer had been yanked off…
Read archived post →Huh?
Well it seems we are still in need of repairs. The truck stop can’t figure out what is wrong! No time to explain all of it right now, but I say the…
Read archived post →Repairs
Well we picked up this loaded trailer earlier this morning. We took it to get several things fixed, got fuel, and jumped on the scale. Man we are heavy!!! The repair folks…
Read archived post →In a door
Well we arrived early hoping they would get tired of looking at us and get us done ahead of schedule. They put us in a door already but that does not always…
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