Issues!
Ok, so we dropped our loaded trailer at the delivery yesterday. They had no empty trailers available so we went to several places to find an empty. The only place we found…
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Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
Ohio
Long days lately, long nights too. We have arrived at our delivery and as soon as done here we will have to rush to the next shipper… 650 miles accomplished yesterday.
Read archived post →Waiting
So yesterday we drove through the night after spending two days at the shop. Obviously we could not make delivery by 5am because of the delay at the shipper and stupidly tight…
Read archived post →Ready?
Ok gang. Looks like we have been released from the shop with new oil, alignment, updates, and ten new tires! Ooooo don’t they look pretty! We got 236,000 miles out of the…
Read archived post →Tires
Boy, not a happy camper lately. First Springfield then now in Kansas City. We have been waiting on tires all day. Not sure what all is going to happen with this next…
Read archived post →Restart and inspection
Afternoon gang. We are taking a 34 hour restart because we kept hitting our 70 hour limit and doing alot of 1 and 2am driving because of it. We also have run…
Read archived post →December is…
Good evening everyone. We have arrived in Springfield, Missouri but we do not deliver until Thursday late afternoon. We are trying to gain back some hours. Special Announcement! We had Road Crew…
Read archived post →Out of time!
Morning. We were supposed to drop this delivery yesterday but we keep hitting our 70 hour clock hard! At 2am we only gained back about two hours which let us complete the…
Read archived post →Madness!
Good morning Road Crew. In case you are wondering why we are just lounging around and not driving…. We have had to stop because we are hitting our 70 hour clock. We…
Read archived post →End of 70?
Evening gang! We made our delivery earlier this afternoon. Originally, it was scheduled to be delivered Friday morning but the bosses say they are short drivers so they moved it up a…
Read archived post →Montana
Morning! Today we will finish Washington, roll through Idaho, and see how far we get into Montana. Decent trip so far but let’s see how the weather holds out for us
Read archived post →New trip
Afternoon Road Crew. We finally made our last delivery lastnight and got released about 130am Pacific time. Now we are at a hole in the wall truckstop until we reload in the…
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