Trucking Blog Archive

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

Ahhhhhh Denver!

Morning!  I forgot we were so close to our delivery that the camera locked at the truckstop!  Oh well.  We are waiting for our door to unload.  No new trip yet, perhaps…

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Time delay

Morning to ya. Ok, so the sun is up here in beautiful Utah and we aren’t driving yet. Good reason for it. The delivery yesterday was 545pm but they did not get…

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Shiprock 

Morning!  I was very surprised that we were able to broadcast through Shiprock,  New Mexico and continue broadcasting for more than two hours! I remember that used to be a total dead…

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Route change 

Morning!  After research lastnight,  I noticed our route was using US Highway 550 which a section is also known as the  Million Dollar Highway.  This route is NOT STAA approved for trucks.…

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Tucumcari 

Welcome to Tucumcari,  New Mexico.  Lastnight the shippers took 5 hours to load me. By then, it was too late to really drive anywhere.  We camped out in their parking lot until…

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Dallas to Utah

Good afternoon! We are testing out the truckstop review plugin and will try to bring back my experiences on the road. Our next shipper in Dallas will not load us early but…

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Whew! HOT!

Afternoon to ya!  It is dang hot here in Texas!  We rushed and tried our best to make it to our delivery ontime. We did it. We only had 4 minutes left…

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Texas

Good morning. We drove to the delivery lastnight and parked the truck at the gate of our delivery and waited for our appointment this morning. My buddy picked me up and we…

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Oh boy

Well I had a busy but good 34 hour restart. I went down to Peoria to see an airshow and the B29 bomber Fifi. While there, I met a gentleman that noticed…

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Peoria 

Good Sunday morning.  We made our delivery in Rochelle, Illinois Saturday night about 10pm. We had less than one hour on our 70 and gain nothing back until Monday!  So, with that…

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Wyoming Dirt

Good morning everyone.  We picked up our loaded trailer yesterday and we dragged it through the mountains and halfway across Wyoming before calling it a night about midnight mountain time. We should…

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Slideshow and Videos

Good morning! While we wait for information on our next trip, I thought I would share the latest videos I recorded in Full HD, and a slideshow made from photos I captured…

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