Trucking Blog Archive

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

The State of Affairs and Apps

Ok, so just got done with another night of extensive testing and researching about the problems with our new custom broadcast app…. As a review, we had no problem broadcasting from our…

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Tweak here and tweak there

Hey! Before we started broadcasting on Sunday, our phone got the newest Android 12 update and, well, it threw a few kinks into our app. Apparently quite a few things changed and…

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Sunday News and Driving

Howdy! Yes, we will get rolling sometime this afternoon. We are only 75 miles away and don’t deliver until midnight tonight and they won’t take us early. No worries, we will get…

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Trying new things

Hey! We go back to driving on Saturday the 22nd. Not exactly a long trip, but this does prepare us for a beautiful nice easy trip on a route we haven’t been…

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The World’s Biggest Truckstop

Howdy! It was an adventure filled drive through Lincoln, Nebraska and Iowa on Interstate 80 as we battled icy conditions and counted more than 70 wrecks, vehicles in ditches, and rollovers. Sunday…

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Busy night ahead!

I have been busy trying to upload and swap videos around today, but since we used the broadcast camera for recording as well, we just couldn’t broadcast and upload 29GB at the…

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Saturday Mystery

Hey! How You? 🙂 So, we have completed our 34 hour restart and some extra. Just as I suspected, we are going to go get the trailer we dropped off the other…

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Thanksgiving Thoughts

Happy Thanksgiving to all of the American Road Crew, and a “regular, Thursday” to everyone else:) We are sitting in the truckstop in Grayson, Kentucky doing our 34 hour restart so we…

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Sunday News 11/7/21

Good morning Nebraska! After a few days of having to drag our feet because of very few driving hours and hitting our 70 hour clock, we finally gained enough hours for a…

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