Trucking Blog Archive

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

Welcome to December!

Here is this week’s Sunday Video and the free downloadable wallpaper I promised you.  Soggy, cold day in Illinois but no snow on the ground this week.

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Bloomington is Normal?

Good evening everyone.  We made our delivery in Mount Sterling,  Illinois this afternoon.  It was supposed to be a quick drop in their yard then Bobtail to Belvidere for time off but…

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Howdy!

Good good morning everybody hope this finds everyone well. I hope everyone enjoyed the 24-hour broadcast of the winter storm that shut down Interstate 76 as we waited out for the roads…

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Colorado Winter Storm

Howdy and good morning to you. We are in the Love’s truckstop in Brush, Colorado waiting out the snowstorm and blizzard. Currently Interstate 76 is shutdown. We have been broadcasting the snowstorm…

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It’s after Halloween

But it appears we found a ghost trip. We arrived yesterday but afterwards find out the trip has been canceled.  We are waiting for the next trip… no idea who or what…

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Sunday Video and news

Ok ok, everybody thinks I have disappeared. Well,… So we made our delivery yesterday and we waited and waited and finally it was determined that there is absolutely no trips available until…

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Indy to ohio

Good Sunday afternoon. Here is this week’s Sunday video. We have been delaying our start today since our delivery isn’t until 5pm Eastern time. Once we deliver we will have to run…

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Oh boy, fun fun

Good Morning from Indiana! We had a rough night last night with our 1030pm delivery! They took until about 2am or so and then it sure was fun finding parking that late…

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Busy time off…

Got some heavy wet snow on Halloween,  temperatures dropped to 18F, and all the leaves fell. Been mulching up the leaves,  tearing down the garden,  and tons of other stuff before winter…

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Midnight Express

UPDATE: Well, in case you missed it, we are already standing by at the delivery in Mountville, Pennsylvania. The trailer we were waiting on came in early so we grabbed it and…

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New Store Items!

We have now updated the BigRigTravels Store with all the backorders ya’ll have placed as well as adding several new items. Check out our fancy custom made diecast Hat (or lapel) pins!…

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