Saturday morning tires
Good morning. It seems like nothing changes, not even in a new year. The other driver that left us with an overweight trailer yesterday? I just noticed during today’s inspection that we…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Friday 2020
Morning! We are already at our delivery for the first trip of the New Year! Boy, it sure was difficult to wake up at 230 am this morning! This first delivery sure…
Read archived post →Christmas Eve
Howdy and good Christmas Eve to everyone. It has been a wild week and figured I had better get a post up tonight. Updating the trip journal will happen soon, I promise.…
Read archived post →Rough day
Howdy. We are spending the night overlooking the Dillon Reservoir in Frisco, Colorado. It was just one of those days… let me give ya a glimpse into what happened today while the…
Read archived post →Grand Junction
Good morning America from Grand Junction, Colorado. We are still waiting for our next trip. Apparently freight out of here is pretty slow because this truckstop has quite a few trucks hanging…
Read archived post →Sunday Brakes a smokin’
A good Sunday morning to ya Road Crew. This morning we departed Baker, California and as we headed up the mountain we noticed the trailer brakes started to smoke. We pulled over…
Read archived post →Drizzle in California?
Good afternoon Road Crew! We should have been rolling by now but the driver we are doing a repower for is running behind. As soon as he gets here we will swap…
Read archived post →Traffic!
Very long day today as we ran the full 11 hours of our drive clock. Tonight we are very thankful that we get to park on the property of our first delivery.…
Read archived post →International Orders
I do have to make mention that the bigrigtravels store purchases come with free shipping in the 48 continental States. Because of the much higher shipping costs for the International orders, we…
Read archived post →Rush then stop update
Updated… I know that sometimes we get the short end of the stick with being turned away from delivery for being an hour late, or shippers that take 36+ hours to load…
Read archived post →More local news
Well, yesterday we were late due to circumstances beyond our control but we showed up as fast as we legally could. Yesterday we were told to come back at 0930am today to…
Read archived post →Rescheduled…
So we rushed to make up time to get to delivery at the most earliest legal time allowed…and they would not allow us in the gate today because we were 1hr 15min…
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