Trucking Blog Archive

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

shipping

Well, I thought we would show up two hours early, get loaded, and start this next trip. Man was I wrong! This place is a zoo! I just hope we get loaded…

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Clacky

We arrived right on time for delivery but we had to wait an hour for our door to open up! I hope this is not an all day affair. Welcome to Clackamas,…

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short

Afternoon ya’ll! Welcome to Oregon! Well, we fell short of our goal today. In fact, we ell short of several of them! Both California and Oregon are 55 MPH states for trucks.…

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Northbound

Good morning Road Crew! They finally got us loaded and they only left us about an hour to get anywhere! BOO! Today we will see how much we can do. We are…

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early

We arrived early but they won’t load us early. I suspect we will hit the highway again about 530PM today for a few hours – when we hit our 14 hour limit.…

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California

Good morning from California! We already rolled around Lake Tahoe and Donner’s Pass and are getting ready to get our trailer washed for our next shipper. When we got done last night…

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Unloading

Even though the GPS does not say it…..we are in fact unloading right now. We pretty much are in a hole, so who knows. It was a fantastic ride through the backroads…

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Nevada

Welcome to Tonopah, Nevada where we are taking our 30 minute break.  Wow, it sure has been a lonely and wonderful drive so far. Not much to see around these parts but…

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Hohum

Well i sure am frustrated here…but we will be okay. Timing is all off it seems but we will just stop for today since we did cover 454 miles. I was looking…

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Schedule

Our schedule for today looks like this… 1245 leave truckstop for first delivery 1330 arrive first delivery hopefully be back on the Interstate headed towards final delivery by 5PM!

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Albuquerque

Welcome to the top of the hill in Albuquerque, New Mexico! We are about 24 hours early and I tried to get an earlier appointment, but nope. That means we will simply…

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