Trucking Blog Archive

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

standby

We just handed our trailer off to another driver and we are on standby for our next big adventure which will come tomorrow morning (hopefully) … I will post the trip as…

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Limbo?

We are waiting to see what happens next. I was told to prepare for a swap in Flagstaff so we arrived here. So far no further information… As soon as I find…

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Break in Arizona

Route 66 and break time in Arizona, you know that pesky 8 hour limit before we have to take a mandatory nap! HA! Nice weather and glad the sun is out. We…

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Santa Rosa

Afternoon folks! Well our load was a little bit delayed but we still managed to get a decent start on the trip. We had to stop here for the night in Santa…

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Cactus

Good morning! We have arrived at the shipper but our load is not ready yet. All we can do is wait and see how much time to drive is left once it…

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no more

no more time to drive today. Ok, well, we still have 55 minutes but that is not enough time to make it anywhere decent with a truckstop. We will roll again in…

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Change?

We stopped at the Pilot truck stop for coffee…and they might change our trip since our hours are tight and getting it done would be awful messy. We are waiting on the…

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Doozy

Morning! Well we woke up and started driving at 2am to make this delivery work with our hours. We made it an hour early and are in the door waiting to be…

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New Pilot

Well, hate to say it but we have run as far as we can today due to a shortage of hours! We gain a few after midnight but that will mean super…

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Loading!

Morning! We made our first delivery this morning……man, it was too early to be up! Delivery went fine in Shreveport, now we made our way on over to Hawkins, Texas and we…

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Shreveport

We made it to the Petro in Shreveport, Louisiana! It was an interesting ride because it was on backroads we never have been on before and then we saw it…..”Freeway Ends”…all traffic…

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Sunday

Good Sunday afternoon to ya’ll. We are taking our 30 minute nap and then we will take the backroads down to Shreveport to get ready to make our delivery very early tomorrow…

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