Covered Bridge Festival 2026 — LIVE Adventure & Progress
Revisit our 2026 Parke County Covered Bridge Festival adventure with BigRigSteve and the Road Crew—visited bridges, travel notes, photos, livestream replays, and Shorts.
Read archived post →Trucking Blog Archive
Original blog posts, updates, and memories from the earlier years of BigRigTravels. Part of our Trucking Days archive.
4/26/2024 update from BigRigSteve
Update from BigRigSteve on X, posted on 4/26/24: “We have officially been cleared to return to driving and broadcasting! We will broadcast from Belvidere to Gary on Monday about lunch or so.…
Read archived post →Update from Big Rig Steve posted on BRT (Twitter) X 4/16/2024
Home from the hospital tonight! Getting tons of puppy love and kitty hugs. Feel tons better, but have follow up appointments to arrange this week…
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Sunday Song and Wellness Check In
Updating our Health First, let’s go over what happened… During our two weeks time off, we were having problems with allergies, general breathing problems, etc. We got “better” then decided to take…
Read archived post →Update 4/13/2024
Posted by Mystic Wolf on BRT Discord channel as of 4/13/2024 Update on Steve! He was admitted to the hospital yesterday. There is some inflammation in his lungs, but not enough they…
Read archived post →About today’s drive…
Well, this weekend BigRigTravewas your alternative to the Super Bowl. Yesterday we covered the San Rafael Swell and today we conquered the highest point on any US Interstate at over 11,000 feet.…
Read archived post →Rough start Today
We are trying to get rolling here. Truck won’t start, dead batteries, won’t jump start even using our heavy duty personal jumper. Think there is a short somewhere since all lights, hazards…
Read archived post →February updates
Howdy! So, here are a few updates for you. We were given a trip this morning but it wasn’t going to work out, so we rejected it. The ONLY other trip available…
Read archived post →Monday Icy Mess
Hey!How are ya? So, just to catch you up today, we did make our delivery. We have multiple problems with this trailer that was preloaded. The plans were to head to Gary…
Read archived post →What the heck happened?
Alright , this isn’t going according to plan at all. We had our Friday shop appointment canceled due to ice and blizzard conditions. No biggie, we had it rescheduled for Monday. We…
Read archived post →The Day Has Arrived!
Well, it took awhile to get here, but we are loaded up and ready to start the big event trip Thursday morning! Join us as we leave Texas and hit our 2…
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