Trucking Blog Archive

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

Decide?

Howdy . We are in a door and being loaded in New Jersey for our trip to the St Louis area. Nice day out for sure. This was sent to me from…

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Loading early

Afternoon gang! They are loading us several hours early so we will hopefully be able to get a decent headstart on this trip to Pennsylvania.  We have been hitting our 70 hour…

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Droopy

Morning.  We head to our delivery in Moberly,  Missouri today.  We just got our next trip lined up….

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Recap

Howdy and good evening.  I realize that we had a rough signal since we left Cheyenne , Wyoming and my end of stream comments might not have been heard.  Basically, my first…

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Virginia

Afternoon Ya’ll.  Hopefully you enjoyed the trip through the New York areas yesterday.  We made our delivery this morning then had to run directly to the shipper  in Stuarts Draft , Virginia. …

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Missed it!

Well heck. We did everything we could.  We didn’t even take the half hour break. Wee missed our loading the by 30 minutes and they already went home for the day. They…

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Shop update

Well, they did the main 50k services, but they found a few minor issues which they will fix Thursday morning. Think of the good side of this though, we are getting a…

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Food for thought

I LOVE TO HATE THOSE BIG RIG TRUCKS THEY MUSCLE THEIR WAY ONTO THE INTERSTATES, AND YOU GET STUCK BEHIND THEM GOING UP THE BRIDGES AND TRYING TO GET THROUGH INTERSECTIONS. WOULDN’T…

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Left Rear Outside

Know what that means?  We did our morning inspection and noticed we have a flat tire on our trailer!  The title of the post actually tells you exactly what tire position I’m…

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Dinosaur Kiss!

Good Saturday morning Road Crew!  The other day,  I took a selfie of me and the Sinclair Dinosaur at the Baker City, Oregon truckstop and posted it on the BigRigTravels Facebook group…

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Behind the scenes

Well dangit man! If you guys only knew the troubles! So, I recorded the drive from Biggs Junction, Oregon to Granger, Washington on US Highway 97 North a few days ago. Because…

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US Highway 97

Good late morning to all. We have been dragging our feet this morning since our loading appointment isn’t until 1pm Pacific.  I called about loading earlier but they said no since the…

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