Trucking Blog Archive

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

We tried…

To deliver tonight,  but we were 5 hours too early to drop our loaded trailer.  We will take our break then attempt delivery again in the morning.  Our next trip picks up…

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Oregon mud

Afternoon.  We are positioned in front of our loading dock waiting for permission to open up the doors to load. So much for our nice clean truck! This shipper is in the…

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Where’s Waldo?

Heck if I know, but we are still in Portland! We did our delivery in Portland Tuesday morning then ran over to the shop to get our oil changed. The first step…

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Portland 

Good morning.  We are at our delivery this morning waiting for a door to back up to. Little place here with 4 docks yet 9 trucks all crowded around!  We have our…

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Monday Memories 

Good Monday morning! We finally got loaded yesterday after having to sit a few days. Sitting wasn’t so bad though since I did manage to get not one, but two Segway rides…

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Sit in California

Good Morning! We have our next trip, but sadly, it does not load until Sunday afternoon! I have been making use of my time, however, by uploading all the photos from California!…

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Lost it

Howdy!  Well,  we had our next trip lined up but it just got taken away us. Apparently,  there is another driver closer to the shipper than we are. Fast and easy delivery…

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Shoshone 

Morning! Well yesterday my buddy stopped by the truckstop and we went to Shoshone Falls and ended up redeeming my free hotel credit a few days before expiring.  I am on the…

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California 

Morning!  Yeah, it really did take until 1am or so to unload us… Ready to play in California again?  Our next trip doesn’t load until tonight though,  so we have today to…

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Utah 

Afternoon everyone.  It has been a great ride as we headed North on Interstate 15 from St George,  Utah.  We are about 15 minutes away from delivery,  but they moved our delivery…

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Anyone lose an hour? 

Morning!  Ever since I got back to the truck yesterday,  it has been a wild goose chase,  problem filled,  weekend trip assignment that has encountered a problem at every single step of…

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Vacation 

Morning!  I am still waiting for a door to unload this delivery.  Our appointment was 8am, and was told to check in at the gate at 4am. We did that. Woke up…

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