Trucking Blog Archive

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

One hour

Well we did our delivery this morning.  What should have been a simple 15 minute drop and go turned into 2 hours and costing $100! Wrong confirmation numbers, wrong delivery times resulting…

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Cheyenne 

Morning gang.  The other day we dropped our delivery and our next load was not due to be ready until yesterday morning.  Woohoo, as we were getting the delivery bills signed, the…

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Loading 

Morning!  We called the shipper and they told us to come on over and they would see about getting us loaded early.  We got the trailer washed out and are now waiting…

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Negotiations 

Good morning everyone.  We are currently working out the details of our next trip and we will be rolling here shortly as soon as my proposal gets approved.   I had a…

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Oh boy sardine lips!

Wow, what a title.  Kinda describes the way my brains are fried at the moment. Rough day yesterday and today! Right now we are officially done with everything and are going to…

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Big mess

Afternoon.  Well, we started our day off on the wrong foot and it just keeps stacking up. I woke up 20 minutes late then rushing to get to the first delivery of…

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Delivery ONE 

Morning!  This getting up at 145am and driving really is for the birds! Wait, no, the birds at least wait until a reasonable hour! We are at our first delivery this morning…

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4th and Wyoming 

Afternoon!  We are taking our 30 minute break in between Rawlins and Wamsutter,  Wyoming on Interstate 80. Beautiful drive this morning and over 100 folks were on the live stream at one…

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Soggy fields

Morning to ya! The day is starting out foggy and overcast after a night of storms. Nothing major, but yesterday rolling into the area you can see flooded fields everywhere! I called…

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Way early! 

Good early Saturday morning to everyone.  Welcome to the Fourth of July weekend.  Yup, I’m up and preparing to hit the highway towards Kansas City and Edwardsville to make our delivery.  Right…

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July!

Good Friday morning! It sure was good to sleep in this morning, and yet I still woke up at 515! Clouds are here today and it looks like it is going to…

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