Trucking Blog Archive

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

Waiting on the fields.

Afternoon.  Well we arrived in Yuma, Arizona yesterday and our appointment is set for 9pm tonight.  Lots of activity at this truckstop. Tons of trucks.  Not much to report on today. Oh…

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Monday puzzle? 

Howdy.  Just now got a new plan in place.  Here’s the rundown…  Remember in Ogden,  Utah, we went to the shipper to pick up our preloaded trailer. Yup, it was ready and…

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Two trips

Anybody want to hitch a ride to the Inland Empire area of California?  We have a short trip tomorrow morning to Idaho then off we go through the backroads of Nevada down…

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Attention! 

Howdy. Let’s be honest here for a minute.  I am going through a rough time from several different directions all at once. My brain is about to break. I’m sure you guys…

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New year??? You sure?

Boy, I sure am aggravated! I was really hoping this new year would start off with at least a few trips that worked as planned!  the load we went to pick up…

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2018

Good morning and welcome to a brand new  year!  We are currently unloading at a local delivery we picked up lastnight.  As soon as we are done here, we will turn the…

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Last day of 2017

Morning Road Crew!  We are unloading at the final delivery for 2017. When we get done here we will turn the cameras back on for one last two hour broadcast for the…

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Wyoming 

I am going to make this special post…about Wyoming.  For years now, we have been running East and West across Interstate 80 in our daily trucking adventures.  Occasionally we have gotten away…

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Trip swap

We terminated our trip here in Ogallala,  Nebraska and are swapping trailers with another driver.  The new trip from this point on has been posted. After final delivery in Sterling,  Illinois,  we…

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Again,  nobody knows… 

Howdy.  Our load was supposed to be ready and preloaded and waiting on us. We arrived and now there are problems with the correct loading information and times. Now, the load supposedly…

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Merry Christmas 

Merry Christmas to all of you.  We are shutdown in Laramie,  Wyoming due to the interstate being closed.  As soon as things open up, we will roll on.

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34 hours

Morning!  OK, so we have been forced to take a 34 hour restart.  I’d rather be driving but the law won’t let us. Yesterday we drove the highest single day miles at…

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