Trucking Blog Archive

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

Shade Tree

AAfternoon to ya from Farr West, Utah where we are currently parked on the shippers property under a big shade tree! This load is not scheduled to be ready until 9pm tonight…

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Flag Day

Good early morning Road Crew. Today is Flag Day in the United States of America. We will head on over to Salt Lake City , Utah and drop this trailer while we…

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Trip changes

Evening to all. The original trip from Pennsylvania to Idaho has changed a few times since we left the shipper on Saturday.  Because of us being overdue for our California BIT inspection, …

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New York to Idaho

Good Saturday morning to ya. Hopefully you enjoyed the trip yesterday through the Southern Countryside of New York State!  I sure enjoyed the hills, turns, and beautiful farm buildings.  I did make…

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Unexpected…

Many years ago,  I was spending the night in a Nevada truckstop out in the boonies. I looked up and watched about ten wild horses just waltz through the middle of the…

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Ohio forever?

Morning!  We are currently unloading in Northwood , Ohio.  It seems we have been stuck around here lately and yesterday definitely seemed like the Ground Hog movie! I picked up our loaded…

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New 70

Morning gang! We have completed our 34 hour restart and now have a fresh set of 70 hours to burn. We first need to get this reefer going since we picked it…

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Arrgh

Morning. Well, its a Monday for sure! Lots of confusion around here. Instead of hashing out all the info this morning, we can sum it up by saying we got the turn…

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Cloudy Sunday

Good morning Road Crew!  It has been some long hours and good miles this week!  As of now,  we have 17 hours to use over the next 3 days!  Most likely 10…

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Glitch?!

Afternoon Road Crew ! We arrived at the shipper for another quick drop and hook. We showed up ready for a fast turn around but they couldn’t find any information on the…

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Hold on!

By the looks of the clouds surrounding us and radar, we sure are going to get wet! We are, and have been waiting in line at the truck wash for 2 hours…

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