Trucking Blog Archive
Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Long weekend
Howdy and welcome to the long Memorial Day Weekend! We have been running hard these past few weeks and constantly hitting our 70 hour clock. It’s time for a few days off…
Read archived post →Recap yesterday
MMorning! Yesterday we showed up to the shipper 3 hours early and they put us in a door right away! I expected to sit in the door awhile sinice they probably didn’t…
Read archived post →Sunday in Utah
Good afternoon. We had a very beautiful run through the backroads of Utah following US Highway 6 through Green River, Price, and Helper, Utah. Since we had no signal as we roamed…
Read archived post →Colorado dirt lot
Good evening Road Crew. We are sitting in a dirt lot of a diner in Flagler, Colorado and are watching lightning bolts and hearing rolls of thunder as the rain drops bounce…
Read archived post →Hit the 70 hour wall!
Howdy ! Well we ran hard to the delivery today in Jonesboro, Arkansas and dropped our loaded trailer. Our next trip is now posted and it also is preloaded and ready for…
Read archived post →Chicago mist
Good morning gang. We started out early this morning and made our way through the Chicago fog and are sitting waiting for the delivery folks to give us a door. It wasn’t…
Read archived post →Delays
Yesterday I got notice that our trailer was loaded and ready early. We stopped the truckstop broadcast and headed back to the shipper hoping to get a head start. I get there…
Read archived post →Quick Day Off
Morning! We finally got to make our delivery lastnight. Luckily, we were in and out in an hour! Then we dragged our trailer down the street to be sold. This morning we…
Read archived post →Sunday Drive
Yesterday was such a great drive! Perfect weather. Today we will finish up the trip but delivery isn’t scheduled until Monday night. Tomorrow morning I will try and get them to unload…
Read archived post →124am
Gosh, here we are unloading in Lewisville, Texas so unhumanely early! After we get unloaded here we have to run to pick up the next load then run right to the delivery.…
Read archived post →Long Night! Update…
Good morning to all of the road crew . We started out driving at 1030pm lastnight and got to the first customer as soon as we legally could. The original delivery appointment…
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