Happy Easter
Today starts my time off the truck. We return on Friday April 26th. Happy Easter to all.
Read archived post →Trucking Blog Archive
Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Wait then run fast!
Good morning. Just a reminder we are sitting waiting to make our first delivery today at noon or so. Sure, it would have been great to deliver early yesterday but they had…
Read archived post →Utah on Tuesday
Howdy from Cheyenne, Wyoming. I figured I would stop here today after 400+ miles since we only have about 400+ left and cannot deliver until Tuesday morning anyway. Nice sunny day around…
Read archived post →Strange week!
Good Friday morning! Well it sure has been a frustrating week indeed. I will get the Trip Journal updated today at some point. After we brought our load and made the Denver,…
Read archived post →Behind the scenes
Oh boy. Nonstop, all day. Been on the phone to payroll, dispatch and planning. Lots of confusion and wrong information. We currently have three trips booked on us. Two of them have…
Read archived post →UpDaTe – Finally Friday!
Updated…. Instead of getting to Effingham later and looking for parking that is free, we will go ahead and stay at the Red Rooster truckstop for free and head out first thing…
Read archived post →Radio Show Wednesday
Howdy and welcome to the London, Kentucky smile face truckstop! Since we do not actually deliver until tomorrow late afternoon, we will go ahead and do a Road Crew Radio Show Wednesday,…
Read archived post →Sunday in the Delta
Good Sunday morning from the Delta of Mississippi where we are currently unloading our freight at the delivery customer. We do have our next trip lined up and will head that way…
Read archived post →Shop
Good morning! Well if you were watching yesterday, you know the truck wouldn’t start. We had just filled up the tractor with fuel when the truck decided it wasn’t interested in going…
Read archived post →Well heck?!
Ok, your afternoon update… We finally got the trailer restored to be safely on the highway. Because we missed both of our delivery appointments today, everything is rescheduled for tomorrow morning and…
Read archived post →Somebody else’s job?
Good Monday morning. We arrived at the shipper last night but the load wasn’t ready yet because they were waiting on more product. We took our 10 hour break then rechecked in.…
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