Trucking Blog Archive

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

Breaking news!!

Remember that flying J truckstop we spent the night at lastnight?  We got Coffee from there and started broadcasting for the day while we rolled out of the fuel island?  It caught…

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Oh boy

Morning!  Well this trip didn’t work out all that well. Third bad, messed up, problem filled trip in two weeks!  We went to the shipper to return the refused products but they…

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Big mess

So, yesterday I was pretty happy that we started the day with a delivery,  then rolled around some, got loaded again,  rolled to another delivery… All in one day! But then,  things…

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Delivery

Good morning!  Very long day yesterday fighting the wind nonstop once we got into Ohio! We managed to cover 608 miles and ended the night in Gary, Indiana with just 1 minute…

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Carolina on my mind…

Afternoon y’all.  We had a long night lastnight.  We got unloaded and just as we left the delivery a big storm came.  It was thunder boomers, lots of lightning and some heavy…

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Foggy

Afternoon to ya from the hills of Virginia!  We had a good rest yesterday.  We only have 200 miles to delivery but the appointment isn’t until 730pm. We will go ahead and…

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Virginia

Afternoon to ya! It has been a very busy morning.  We finally got the loaded trailer and even though I don’t like the way they loaded it, we are now legal.  I…

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Overweight

Morning to ya. Well this trip isn’t going quite as well as I’d hoped for.  First, the load was supposed to be ready yesterday. It wasn’t ready until this morning.  Second,  we…

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Surprise

Afternoon to ya.  I always say that you just never know what we will be doing or where we end up until we actually get there! So we arrived at our delivery…

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Oil

Good morning.  Finally got the oil changed and our 50,000 mile checkup complete.  We have our next trip posted and will hop on 7t as soon as I tie up some loose…

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Backwards

Morning!  We made our delivery yesterday and they were taking forever to unload just 11,000 pounds!  They refused quite a few cases that were damaged from the shipper, so we are on…

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Western Illinois

Good morning.  We will start heading to our delivery here shortly in Mt Sterling.  last time were unloaded there, there was no signal to do anything with!  When done there, we will…

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