North Platte
Welcome to North Platte, Nebraska where we will spend the night. As I was typing out this entry, the spot in front of us opened up allowing me to move forward to…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Break
Time for break here in Nebraska! Decent day today, the snow is off the roads and no ice. Quite a bit of winds today and a few accidents from yesterdays snow and…
Read archived post →Soggy!
Pretty crummy day today as we rolled across Iowa! We stopped near What Cheer, Iowa to spend the night. We only have an hour and 20 minutes to drive today anyway for…
Read archived post →Good Sunday
Morning to ya Road Crew! Got your coffee? I do:) The wind has been howling all day yesterday and last night. Seems the wind is still with us this morning. I see…
Read archived post →Easy Day
Welcome to Fort Wayne, Indiana! We have never stopped at this truckstop before. I figure there is nothing wrong with a half-day today. We started off the day this morning by getting…
Read archived post →Ohio!
Welcome to Lodi, Ohio! We are parked for the night about one third of the way to our next shipper. There is even a Blue Beacon Truckwash across the street to get…
Read archived post →West Virginia
Welcome to West Virginia where we will go ahead and take our required 30 minute break. Looks like some heavy rain and very dark clouds are just ahead of us! Several of…
Read archived post →Leaving!
I woke up this morning and everybody left me! The parking lot is about empty! Time to get up and get coffee, fuel, and roll out to the big road. 🙂
Read archived post →Fancy Gap
Welcome to exit 1 in Virginia and Fancy Gap! We decided to go ahead and get a few miles done with today then roll free tomorrow to delivery. First thing we do…
Read archived post →Tennessee Teens
Afternoon Gang! We are still having the trailer worked on. They found a bad brake slack adjuster, a bad brake chamber, a bad air valve, missing mudflap, and a bad tandem pin!…
Read archived post →trailer
Good Morning! We left early this morning to run back down to Duncan, South Carolina to get the trailer repaired. They say it will “take awhile”….. In the dark, I pulled up…
Read archived post →breakage
Well so many problems lately! I think I finally got the GPS to behave. I think. We picked up our preloaded trailer and had to go to three different places looking for…
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