Trucking Blog Archive

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

Colorado

Welcome to the Colorado boonies! We started out early this morning, drove to Denver, swapped trailers (since we arrived two days early) and made it through all the Rocky Mountains! We had…

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New trip

We dropped our trailer early and are already hooked and ready to roll on the next trip! Let’s see how far we can get into the mountains!

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Oakley, Kansas

Afternoon! We we are done for today after hauling our freight 604.4 miles and only 45 minutes left on our 11 drive hours. Excellent day today, great weather too! Want some good…

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Break

We are almost done with our thirty minute break. The day started in some rain and fog but we ran through it all and virtually nothing for traffic! We are enjoying 68…

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Done!

Well we are done for today. I have done all I can stand. We did our delivery early this morning then went for our next shipper. They took forever! They also loaded…

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Unloading

Good Monday morning to ya! We are sitting in a door and being unloaded. The next trip has now been posted and will start after we get done here and the trailer…

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Sunny Day

We have finished for the day now since we are only 15 miles from our delivery which takes place tomorrow morning. Beautiful day today! I guess I can catch up on some…

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Effingham

Welcome to the end of an easy day. I am glad we got off to a good start and had good clean roads all the way! Heck, it is even above freezing!…

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Ready?

Good Saturday morning! I am feeling better this morning. Remember yesterday this as supposed to be preloaded but the guard told us it was live load and we were too early and…

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Strange

We were supposed to do a simple drop and hook but the times are too late for us and they are doing live loads only…so, that means we come back in the…

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In line

Afternoon! We came down here to the truckwash in Ft Wayne. We will head on over to the shipper once we get done here. This is an easy trip with plenty of…

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You ever?

…crawled into bed and was so tired you wanted to cry? Well that is me right now. Only took ibuprofen once today and we just got done with our delivery. Who knew…

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