Trucking Blog Archive

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

Sunny

Morning.  The sun shining through the window woke me up. Now I  gotta drive.   Yesterday was a long drawn-out drive across South Dakota.  Today we just mosey on down the highway…

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Butte, Montana 

Afternoon ya’ll.  It has been a rough day trying to maintain broadcast quality signal but we did manage a few shorter streams. The signal held very well East of Butte so perhaps…

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Misty

Afternoon!  We just got done being loaded and ran our truck over the scale…  Now, we take lunch then roll South to Seattle area then head East up and over Snowqualmie Pass.…

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Heat and dominoes 

Evening to ya!  Well we have been running ourselves ragged today. We started with our first delivery this morning in Spokane,  Washington.  It went okay,  but like normal,  they took their sweet…

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Missed again! 

Morning to ya! Over the years,  we have always managed to roll through an area just minutes or hours before or after a serious problem.  Usually it is weather related such as…

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Montana

Good morning from Billings,  Montana.  We covered 569 miles yesterday and have about that much to do today. It seems we are doing alot better job of maintaining broadcast quality signal through…

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Dodge City 

Morning!  We are at the shipper and while doing our walk around of the loaded trailer,  we found a tire completely off the rim.Yay! We always get stuck with somebody else’s tire…

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Ready to Ride?

Morning from the terminal in Denver,  Colorado.  We have the green light for departure to our next shipper.  This is a nice long trip with 2 deliveries  in the State of Washington.…

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Long day?

499.9 miles done today.  Very early morning start tomorrow so we can make delivery on time. After our delivery we need to put the truck in the shop for it’s oil and…

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The Twins! 

Welcome to Twin Falls,  Idaho for the night.  We make our delivery tomorrow morning then also load out of here right away and get started on our next trip. Nice ray today…

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Half Day Friday 

Afternoon and welcome to Cheyenne,  Wyoming.  Today is half day friday!  Why? Well, the place we deliver to doesn’t open until Monday morning!  Tomorrow we will scoot across Wyoming and spend the…

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