Trucking Blog Archive

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

Rough Start

Good evening everyone.  We had our usual empty trailer hunt this afternoon and then arrived at the shipper. The load is not ready just yet so we will try early Monday morning.…

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It’s Monday!

Good morning gang! Well, its definitely Monday  for sure. Our preloaded trailer was in fact preloaded and ready on Friday.  But with the shipper office being closed on both Saturday and Sunday, …

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Latest News

Good Thursday to ya  Road Crew! Well, finally getting to some updates on the website. Greg’s photo has now been added to the Road Crew Gallery and the Trip Journal is up…

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Long trip!

Ok, so we are safely parked for the night just a handful of miles away from our delivery in the morning.  It has been a long, scenic trip from Washington State to…

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Dispatched

Our new trip has been updated as well as the trip journal to reflect numbers since our delivery this morning. The next trip starts Tuesday morning at 530 am Pacific

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March Photo Contest

Good Sunday afternoon.  We have stopped about 100 miles from our delivery.  There is extremely limited truck parking in and around Seattle so stopping short we can get a great place to…

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Episode 1 in the can!

Howdy and good evening from Barstow, California. Tonight we just finished taping the first episode of the Bigrigtravels Road Crew Radio Show. It ran longer than planned but it was great to…

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Restart Again

Good evening to all. We just did a 34 hour restart last Friday and here it is Thursday night and we will need to do another restart. We arrived in Barstow, California…

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Broadcast Silence

Good Thursday morning and welcome to the last day of February! Hopefully spring is around the corner! Below is a data tower map of Interstate 70 between Green River, Utah and Interstate…

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Special Routing

Good evening to ya! Boy, what a long day that ended with a twist! First off, we had to leave Denver right away and fight traffic before our clocks ran out and…

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Sunday night in Joplin

Howdy and welcome to Joplin, Missouri about two miles from the State of Oklahoma!It has been a long drive from where we started this morning in Bloomington, Illinois. This morning we had…

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