Trucking Blog Archive

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

Cold!

Morning to all. Quick start to our day it will be an interesting one… Let’s roll….but first can someone turn up the heat?

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Finally

Good afternoon. I kept waiting to make a blog entry until I found out exactly what was going on. We drove all through the night in ice and snow to make our…

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Christmas Eve

Good afternoon Road Crew! We sat a few hours and just when our sleep time was finished, they lifted the chain law at 7pm. I decided I would make one last ditch…

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Chains?

Good morning from Pendleton, Oregon at the base of Cabbage Patch. They currently have the chain law in effect at the top of the mountain … so that means we are stopping…

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Seattle

Morning. We started out early this morning and arrived at our shipper. Currently waiting on a door to open up for us. The mountains are closed and a winter storm due to…

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Morning

Good morning.  Our day started at 2am after only getting a few hours of sleep. We will head to the truckstop and catch up on sleep. The trip we had has been…

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Sloppy

Good morning.  We made our delivery lastnight and made our way to the truckstop in Pasco, Washington.  Still no word on our next trip but I have been told they are working…

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Utah

Good morning from Utah. We left early this morning to get going and try to get out of town before the high winds arrived in Wyoming. We are only 10,000 pounds heavy…

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Rawlings

Evening to ya! Well they opened the westbound highway then ended up closing it again behind us. We made it through the Elk Mountain area but it was dangerous with blowing snow,…

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Closed

Morning.  Yesterday we made our first delivery with no problems.  When we got unloaded the roads opened back up. I thought about sitting in Cheyenne until morning but ultimately decided to at…

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Delivery

Good morning and welcome to Cheyenne Wyoming where our first delivery is currently taking place. We made it here on time and safely arrived.  The westbound interstate is currently closed so not…

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Blizzard

We have reached Limon, Colorado but are shutdown due to blizzard conditions and numerous truck accidents on interstate 70 westbound about ten miles away… We will see how it looks in the…

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