Trucking Blog Archive

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

Beavers!

Welcome to Beaver dam, Ohio! I had planned on going all the way tonight but decided not to. We have our next trip lined up already and it is going to take…

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30 break

We are taking our 30 minute break in Kentucky. Lots of off and on rain today but so far folks seem to behaving out on the roads. Decent day today but even…

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Whew!!

Well we finally got to stop in this old truck stop. Our day got some wrenches thrown in it with the delays. We managed to stop with just one hour and two…

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Fried Okra!

Well, we got the trailer washed out and are parked at the Petro truckstop waiting for our next trip…. Man, this place is getting expesive! They used to give you 4 hours…

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Limbo

We dropped our trailer at the customer and we are waiting on our next trip. Chances are pretty good we will pickup from here so we might as well sit nearby until…

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QT

Woohoo we made it to my favorite QT about two hours away from our delivery. We came up short today…but we will complete this in the morning. We really got slowed down…

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Kentucky

We are taking our 30 minute break right now about 10 miles from the Kentucky and Tennessee state line! It has been a slow drive so far and we still have a…

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Drizzle

Well, we are running into our 14 hour clock so no more driving for today! It sure is cloudy, drizzly, and the temps are hanging right at 29. We have a full…

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chilly

We are being unloaded right now and it should be a few more minutes….or so. Then we will head off to get the trailer washed out then get to the next shipper…

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Delivery

Alright, we are sitting in the back of the lot at delivery waiting for them to call us to a door. It sure was hard to get rolling at 3am! Lots of…

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Ohio!

We are done for today. We still have about 80 miles to go, but no place to park once we leave here…so we will spend the night here, then get up way…

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