BRT519 From El Mirage, Arizona to Thousand Palms, California

Recorded Friday July 18th 2025 We are leaving the shipyard at 2:09pm and it is 105 degrees. We need to leave El Mirage, AZ to get a weight to be legal to travel into California. We are for Cali! Let’s get a bit of fuel and our free hotdog at the Love’s in Tolleson, AZ. We are on I-10 Westbound towards LA. 03:27:53 welcome to California! We are entering checkpoint between AZ/CA. 99 degrees at 7:36pm in Palm Springs area off Sonny Bono Memorial Freeway at the FlyingJ. 3:56 min on the eleven hour clock, 3:56 min. on the fourteen hour clock, and 26:23 left on the 70 hour clock. We covered 289 mile plus a delivery and a pickup. BigRigSteve is an American truck driver who shares his daily routine & experiences while living his life out on the open road. Come explore the multi-lane interstates in the big cities to the two-lane blacktop backroads of the small towns of America from the unique perspective from the windshield of his big rig. His website at http://bigrigtravels.com has all of the current trip information and more about past trips located in the Trip Journals section. The lifeblood of a trucker is coffee - go ahead & hand BigRigSteve a cup here: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BigRigTr... Come join us on the Road Crew Facebook Page at   / 183265405558688   #bigrigtravels #truckinglife #driving