Daily Summary for 2/6/2023

 Big Rig Steve officially ended the day safely parked at the drop yard at 17:20 CST. As Steve arrived at the drop yard, he said “welcome back to truck driving”. I was waiting for Steve to say his negative ”yay”!

 BRS title for today’s summary “Whole wasted day”.  As Trish S posted on BRT chat , “summed up the day Ric-Rac, you will have an interesting summary today. Nothing but trouble.”

 We started first day of season two for 2023 at BRT world headquarters Belvidere Illinois at 10:00 CST from our usual location. Nope, BRS did not call in sick today, we started rolling.  BRT RC member Super Caitlin 1 posted on BRT chat that it was her third year anniversary today of watching Big Rig Travels. Today, we were also lucky and blessed to have the presence of our moderator Gossamer 86 back to greet BRT RC members as each entered the BRT YouTube Chat. As we rolled down I-90 towards the windy city (BRS noted it was windy on the road) of Chicago, Steve discussed what had occurred during this time off, which included completing another product review to be released soon. Steve also informed us that Orangey and Stitch were both wanting his attention as they sensed he was leaving again. BRS also noted that he had purchased a new vacuum pressurized, rotating tumbling marinator that he would do a review on in the future for us. “Boy that worked nice!” As we continued on, chat was busy with many of the road crew asking common questions that kept moderators and RC busy answering, many of which the answers are available on the Bigrigtravels.com  website in the ?FAQs tab. We rode in silence for quite some time until we reached Elgin at 10:38 CST. Steve inquired as to which route we should take through the big city. Yes you’ll have to watch the stream playback to find out our route. (Clue: The view looked brilliant).  10:56 CST a story broke out about off time, which never goes by without a trip to the Costco.

 Steve left us to go into the drop yard to pick up preloaded trailer. Sometime later Steve posted on Twitter, “so we searched all over for the loaded trailer we were supposed to deliver at 3:00 PM, finally found it in the shop. The reefer is bad, the brakes need to be replaced, the driver that dropped it didn’t tell anyone. The yard dog found the conditions during a routine yard check.”   At 14:30 CST, BRT was back on the air leaving Gary for a new trip. Yes, we were headed to pickup next trip after the first trip Steve advised “Oh my, this morning was just a practice.” Trip to Gary was fun though.  Twitter subscribers to BRT knew exactly what was going on from Steve’s post while he was in the yard sorting out his next move. The previous trip’s preloaded trailer was left in the shop for obvious reasons. So we dead headed on with our original empty trailer to Joliet.  Drop and hook proceeded. Yes, another preloaded trailer with troubles was acquired.

16:07 CST BRS arrived at the Pilot in Gary to fill the refer fuel tank that was empty and the refer had not been running. Oh no. Tank was filled, the refer was put into startup mode while Steve went in for well-earned coffee. Nope, error code popped up on start-up, yes Houston, we have a problem. 16:51 CST Steve advised that this was the third trip in a row with a trailer issue. Yes, first one was the trailer we picked up last week in Murfreesboro Tn that we had to wait on for repairs. (Yes the same trailer that we just left in Joliet).  16:50 CST Steve’s summary of how the day has gone occurred. With all the issues, Steve advised that we are headed back to the yard to get the repairs completed for our new problems. Steve noted we are not taking any chances, experienced drivers put safety first. As usual,  Steve rolled with what he was dealt, calm and collected works out the best solution. A night at the company yard.

Numbers for first day back: Approximately  192 miles 307 km covered today. Clocks we started the day with: 70 hours on 70hr clock . Estimate we used approximately 7:20 minutes of on duty time. Steve will update tomorrow to exact hours left as we did not go over any numbers today.

Welcome Crew Back to the road and to Indiana to start season two.