Trucking Blog Archive

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

OKC

Good morning from the loading docks in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma! We pulled off another super tight delivery…on time (two minutes to spare), safely, and legally! Man, I really wish the planners would…

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Pilot

We made it inside Oklahoma and 100 miles from our delivery. 563 miles covered today and we stopped with an hour and some change left on our 11 hour drive clock. Today…

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Awgghh

Rough day! It started out good then went downhill. Simply put, what should have been a simple and quick check-in turned out to be THREE trips between the store, ATM, washout, back…

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Minnesota

Well we made our way across the Bay from Superior, Wisconsin to Duluth, Minnesota and we are now in a door being unloaded. All morning I had a strange feeling that this…

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Superior

Welcome to Superior, Wisconsin – just across the river and State from Duluth, Minnesota! 🙂 We found a place to park 10 miles from our delivery which we will do tomorrow morning.…

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Good Day

Afternoon ya’ll. Good day today with a washout and our load picked up and scaled out legal:) We covered 396 miles today so we are right on schedule! Take the rest of…

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Washday

Good Sunday morning to ya! We are waiting in line at the Blue Beacon…..to get the trailer washed out. Once clean, we will head to the next shipper and see how far…

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Indiana!

Welcome to our 30 minute break in Indiana, just south of Fort Wayne. We will be making our delivery in a few hours then off to our next shipper – if we…

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Orchard

Afternoon Road Crew! Welcome to the Orchard Road 7-11 where we will camp out for awhile while we wait for our trailer to be ready…. We have been busy this morning with…

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Rain!

We dropped our trailer off at the shipper and have bobtailed to the local truck stop! I love this new Kwik Trip they put here now! Good coffee, plenty of food, decent…

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Plover

Afternoon! We got our next trip lined up. Even though we will not pick up until early tomorrow morning, let’s get to the shipper so we can drop this empty trailer off.…

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Washout

Howdy! The delivery went very well at midnight. Right now we are going to head on up to get our trailer washed out. We are working on our next trip…and hopefully we…

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