Trucking Blog Archive

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

Delays. Again. 

Good morning from a soggy, droopy, misty, foggy Dodge City,  Kansas!  Well,  we arrived at our shipper about 18 hours early for our appointment.  Now, we are still waiting on our load…

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Finally! 

Afternoon! We are finally unloading at our delivery in Olney, Illinois.  It sure was a rough first day back!  We sat in the holding pen from 7am until about 11pm. Finally got…

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Argh 

Happy Friday morning!  I really didn’t do much of anything for my time off this time. I did clean up the truck alot and do laundry,  etc. We are already in progress…

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Sitting in a door

Afternoon gang.  We are at our shipper getting loaded for our trip to Edmond,  Oklahoma.  It is a straight shot due North from Fort Worth.  We deliver very early tomorrow morning.  We…

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Howdy 

Yesterday we stopped off in Gary, Indiana for our California BIT inspection, during which they found a drive wheel seal starting to leak. We were in the shop until 10pm.  Thursday will…

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Ohio

Morning!  We are currently loading and will make a direct flight to the delivery just north of Cincinnati as soon as we can get there. Then we wait for our next shipper…

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Waiting 

While we wait for our next trip, how about we head on over to Dexter, Michigan so we can get the trailer washout done. Also, we won’t have to stay here in…

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Trails!

Afternoon ya’ll.  We made our delivery early this morning then got up here to our next shipper. Our load was not ready when we arrived,  but isn’t due to be ready until…

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11 years 

Good morning!  Well today marks my 11th year as a trucker!  Still no accidents,  no tickets, no failed inspections. 1.3 million miles. We missed our delivery cutoff time this morning by just…

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