Trucking Blog Archive

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

Early

Well we are done for the day! Yeah I know, it is too early to quit! We are only 150 miles shy of our delivery but we don’t deliver until tomorrow afternoon.…

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Monday?

Are you sure today isn’t Monday? Very long and complicated day today. We did manage a deliver, washout, and we got the next load…with a few troubles here and there…then all that…

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More than 2

It’s been more than two hours since we got here and we still have not been given a door! Why is it I must run like crazy and work things to be…

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Indiana

Long day today. In order to make this trip work, we will need to do an eight hour sleeper split… Not a bad day at all, just been terribly busy and dealing…

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Half Day

Good afternoon! We made our delivery this morning but had to bobtail out because they had no empty trailers for us since it was a drop. I guess that means we start…

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Well heck!

It appears that when I filled my ice chest with ice and pushed it back into the cubby hole, it pulled the power cord to the phones! We used up what battery…

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Lunchtime!

Eat up iffin you brought your sack lunch! We are taking our 30 minute break then we roll on! We already have our next trip lined up but will not pickup until…

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Ohio!

Welcome to Ohio! At yesterday’s delivery we had to wait more than an hour for a door. Once we got in it, I was talking to the driver next to us and…

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Delivery

We arrived at our delivery right on time! It took everything we had, but we got it done. Right now we are waiting on a door. When done here and empi we…

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Long day

We just finished a long day of 537 miles. Not doing too bad, but I do get tired near the end of the day. Tomorrow will be an early start for us…

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Nap

Morning! Well after I ate dinner, I laid down for a quick nap when we stopped. It was supposed to be a short nap…with the windows open, I crawled into bed. I…

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Iowa

Afternoon to ya! We have decided to go ahead and call it a day. We have plenty of time tomorrow to make our delivery. We ran into some rain here and there…

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