Trucking Blog Archive

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

Truck Drama Update

Well, we got a hotel on the companies dime for tonight. The preliminary findings show coolant leaking into the fuel. They will tear it apart Wednesday morning to figure out exactly what,…

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Stand by for news….

…this trip has been interrupted by a tow truck! We had just filled all of our tanks with fuel from the Love’s truckstop in Sioux Falls, South Dakota then hit the Interstate…

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No drive today

Howdy. We will not be driving today. I am getting rest and sleeping trying to get rid of this junk once again. Not sure what will happen with this load, perhaps a…

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Strange!

Good Thursday morning from the Pacific Northwest. We are doing a local run this morning. We arrived at the delivery more than an hour early. I walked up to the check in…

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70 hour limit

We are unloading at our delivery in Sumner, Washington and this will be a quick delivery. We are out of our 70 hours by the time we leave so no more driving…

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Six hour lies

Good evening.  We have finally departed the loading dock 6 hours later. I will never understand why it takes so long to unload a trailer.  We brought in 23 pallets but they…

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Long day in California

Howdy and good afternoon to ya from the Inland Empire! This morning we started our day at 3am departing from Hesperia and ran down through the San Bernardino mountains towards our 6am…

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Rush ‘n Sit

Oh boy, long day of backroads today as we raced to Schuyler, Nebraska arriving just 22 minutes late for our loading appointment. No biggie since I rolled up to the lot and…

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Good Wednesday

Good morning America. We made our delivery last night here in Findlay, Ohio and was tied unloading until after midnight. This morning we are waiting for instructions on what to do with…

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Update – Attempt to deliver

Good Sunday morning Road Crew.  In case you missed the details,  we had a 730pm delivery appointment on Saturday night.  We showed up but was informed that the customer doesn’t even have…

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