Trucking Blog Archive

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

Work-in

Afternoon to everyone! I’m hoping your Christmas was a great one. We have arrived a few hours early for our delivery appointment, but we went ahead and checked in. They will try…

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Christmas Eve in Montana

Merry Christmas to all of the Road Crew! Tonight, we are spending the Christmas Eve in Whitehall, Montana. It’s a nice evening here. Tomorrow we will continue on the trip towards Oregon.…

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Booked Up!

Good Friday Afternoon! We are officially booked up until 2019 with our next three trips lined up totaling more than 4,000 miles! WooHoo! We will bounce around like a pingpong ball but…

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Long delays

Afternoon. What a great Tuesday. Well yesterday we attempted the final delivery but was turned away because they had way too many trucks to unload. they asked us to come back at…

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Sunday Delays

Ggood Sunday morning ya’ll. This morning we are on standby mode since our trailer still isn’t ready. It should have been ready no later than 2am. This now ruins any chance of…

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On Standby

Afternoon gang! We have arrived at the shipper but our load is not due out until midnight or so. Right now it isn’t even scheduled to be in the dock yet. All…

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Iowa Delivery

Afternoon everyone! We have arrived at our delivery but are in the bullpen waiting on a door. This place seems to be rotating trucks in and out of the dock fairly quickly…

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New record

Well we sure hit a new and probably not to be broken record on Tuesday! We ran it hard and managed to officially cover 679.5 miles in a single day! That averages…

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Busy day yesterday

Good morning!  Yesterday was a very productive day indeed. We managed to do two live unloads and also a live loading.  It was nice that all three docks did not take long…

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Next Trip!

Good morning! We are currently being unloaded at our final delivery for today. We already made our first delivery early this morning. It sure is nice when I come across places that…

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Sit and wait

Afternoon Gang! We are about 25 miles from the shipper. The load isnt scheduled to be ready until very early Monday morning but I called and they will actually start loading it…

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