Ready to Load!
Afternoon Road Crew! Ok, it was a short and sweet visit to the Carrier Transicold dealer today for repairs. The technician looked at it, ran a test, and had the bad sensor…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Repairs
Good Sunday morning! We had two different people come out last night but neither could repair the reefer! Today’s plan is first to get the mobile trailer wash van out to us…
Read archived post →Gee whiz
Afternoon folks! We scooted on over to Mount Sterling, Kentucky for the only empty around. I performed the pretest on the reefer unit and it fails and shuts down. Great, now I…
Read archived post →Deadhead
Well we have a short deadhead trip to go find an empty trailer…its a start! As soon as they activate the trip we can roll….
Read archived post →In Service
Morning to all the road crew! We are back in service and back to broadcasting! I have signed back into the truck and we are waiting for our next trip. The repair…
Read archived post →News!
Well congrats to all those folks that guessed it was the turbo that exploded! I just got off the phone with the dealer and all the parts came in for it except…
Read archived post →Come On!
Well I stopped by the Freightliner dealership this morning and they never even moved the truck yet! I went in and checked and they told me they should be able to start…
Read archived post →Waiting
Morning! I just got off the phone with the Freightliner dealer and they are hoping to actually begin looking at it sometime tomorrow. We have ten trucks ahead of us at this…
Read archived post →Louisville
Afternoon! I just rented a car for the day so we can go to WalMart, check with the dealer, and perhaps bum around the town some. It sure is cold and drizzly…
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Evening to ya! Well, we waited 5 hours for the first towing company to show up. At hour six we called a different tow company and they showed up within 30 minutes!…
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So the Tow company just called me to tell me their tow truck won’t start…but they are working on it and after they fix their truck they will come get us. Three…
Read archived post →Guess what?
Morning, we got just three miles down the interstate when the truck started blowing blue smoke. Before I could pullover to the shoulder the check and stop engine lights came on and…
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