Daily Summary for 8/22/2024

One day at a time

Big Rig Steve officially done at 19:08 CDT safely parked in the boonies at the TA in Gary, Indiana, “we will sleep good tonight.”

Big Rig Travels broadcast day began at 7:42 CDT at HQ Belvidere, Illinois.  Continuing our trip to Elk Horn, Wisconsin.  BRS said “we are going to try some new settings on you tube, should get one ad every 1/2 hour.” 

Welcome to Wisconsin at 8:20 CDT near Beloit.

Arrival at receiver at 8:50 CDT near Elk Horn, WI.  Broadcast ends while at the customer.

Broadcast resumes at the Love’s near Elk Horn at 12:59 CDT, our delivery was safely completed.

BRS advises we are going to take some back roads on the way to the shipper.  

Arrival at the shipper at 15:58 CDT near Joliet, IL.  At 16:23 CDT, we are at a dock door.

Status changed to on time to delivery at 18:22 CDT.  Leaving the shipper to start our next trip to Columbus, OH.

BRS, “Long day already, but off we go.”

Numbers:  320 miles to the drop yard.  We covered 198 miles rolling in Wisconsin and Illinois and Indiana.  8 day running total was 1,895 miles.

Clocks: 6:06 hours on 11 hr,  2:11 hours on 14 hr,  29:41 hours on 70 hr.  Do not gain back hours tomorrow morning. 

No alarm clock ⏰ tomorrow.   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.

Welcome to the constantly growing Big Rig Travels family. Big Rig Steve is glad to have you as part of the family.

Another good day for Big Rig Travels.

Welcome to Indiana.

Please post comments anything of importance or interest of today’s trip that was not included or feedback for Steve about todays broadcast. 

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