Trucking Blog Archive

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

Sacramento

Howdy! Lunchtime! It is also time to call it a day after our two deliveries this morning and we already got our trailer washed out and ready for tomorrow’s pickup in American…

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My eyes!

Good morning from California!! We started driving the mountains and over Donner’s Pass in the dark. Yesterday, you could start to see and feel the smoke from the King fire! This morning…

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Sparky!

Welcome to our goal for today…The Alamo Petri truck stop in Sparks, Nevada! Can you believe we got front row parking!? Today went very well since we started early and South of…

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The Well

Welcome to Wells, Nevada where we are taking our 30 minute break. It sure is desolate out in these parts as I am sure you probably are not getting many images from…

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Next trip

Well, I didn’t do much of anything today except lay around. I never went for that walk. I figure I really don’t have to explore and photograph every little thing lol. We…

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Walking

Good morning from colorful Utah! Because we keep running short of driving hours, we are taking a 34 hour restart. This will set us back to zero and give us a clean…

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Whew!

Alright, we made our two deliveries and had to drag our empty to Springville, Utah because we were short trailers…. We are waiting on our next trip to be assigned, but I…

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First

Good Monday morning to ya! We arrived at our first delivery as soon as they opened…about two hours before our appointment. They already put us in a door, so we will see…

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Salt Lake

Welcome to Salt Lake City, Utah. We have two deliveries here tomorrow morning. Very nice ride today covering 525 miles in both sun and rain. Dog tired here so let’s go grab…

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Wyoming

Good Sunday Morning! Man, It is too early to be up and moving around here! I did manage to get out of bed and not hurt quite so bad doing it. Yeah,…

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Denver

Good evening from Denver, Colorado! We had a pretty day of driving. Perfect weather for a day of back road traveling through Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado. We managed to get in 573…

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