Daily Summary for 12/16/2024

And…that’s a wrap, 2024

Big Rig Travels broadcast day began at 8:16 am.  It was 41 degrees, overcast and damp.  Live unload was in progress at the receiver in Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

Delivery is complete, another trip safely completed at 9:10 am.  We started our next trip to the shipper near Plymouth, WI.

Steve stops after exiting the receiver to blow out the trailer. 

He stops at the BP in Plymouth at 11:06 am.  Fresh coffee and a danish were acquired.  Steve had mentioned that the truck parking lot was still a dirt lot the last time we were here, they were preparing to pave it, but let he stay here.  He did ask why it was not finished yet, and apparently there was an engineering issue.

Arrival at the last shipper of 2024, live load at 11:20 am in a dock door at 11:40 am.  Loaded at 12:11 pm, beginning our trip to Gary, Indiana to drop the trailer.  

Cat Scale at the BP at 12:21 pm, a weigh mass check, “processing, processing…weight is perfect.” 

Milwaukee is visible from I-43 at 1:16 pm.

Welcome to Illinois at 1:54 pm near Wadsworth.

Downtown skyline view of Chicago at 2:53 pm from I-90/I-94 the Kennedy Expressway.

Welcome to Indiana at 3:23 pm near Hammond.  Steve starts to enter the Indiana toll booth at 3:25 pm, a car is stopped and apparently does not know what to do.  After what seemed like a long time, it moved through the booth so Steve could continue.

Broadcast ends as we near the drop yard in Gary, IN at 3:39 pm to complete the final delivery of 2024.

Broadcast resumes at 4:26 pm as we were leaving Gary Bobtail Bob. Steve points out a wrong way driver at 4:31 pm, “how do you end up going on the wrong side of the road, dude?”

Welcome back to Illinois near Lansing at 4:44 pm.

The Alsip water tower is sighted at 4:59 pm all lit up.  

Love’s stop at Hampshire, IL at 6:19 pm.  Will end here for the season and the year.  

Numbers:  Not discussed.  We covered 380 miles rolling out Wisconsin, in, out of Illinois, into Indiana then back to Illinois.

Clocks: Not discussed as they do not count as BRS goes into time off.  

During the youtube chat there included lots of holiday wishes for Steve and road crew family.  Choose the BRT YouTube channel alarm bell to receive notifications for the start of our broadcast. Check out Bigrigtravels Road Crew facebook page to see pictures captured from other road crew during the stream.  

Welcome to the constantly growing Big Rig Travels family. Big Rig Steve is glad to have you as part of the family.  BigRigSteve will be back on the air before long as time off usually goes fast.  The Blue Comet will roll again in 2025.  Best to all the road crew.

Another good day for Big Rig Travels.

Welcome to Illinois

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