Daily Summary for 8/26/2024

Back to Tennessee

Big Rig Steve officially done at 15:24 CDT safely parked near Christina, Tennessee.

Big Rig Travels broadcast day began at 5:52 EDT at the Circle K in Ringgold, Georgia.  A dark humid early start to the day.  Continuing our trip to Rockwall, GA.  BRS noted at 6:13 EDT, “sun is barely starting to come up, first crack of dawn.”

Arrival at receiver at 7:39 EDT, 1.5 hours early.

Assigned to door number 11 at 8:12 EDT.  Another delivery safely completed at 9:31 EDT.  Headed out to find the closest parking to wait for our next trip.  Found parking in a dirt lot near the BP near Rockwall, GA at 9:39 EDT.

Broadcast ends as Steve was going to take care of business and keeping himself cool, rather than the camera.

Broadcast resumes at 12:56 EDT, we have our next trip.  Dead head to Brownsville, TN to pick up a live load tomorrow evening.  Delivering to Salem, VA on August 29th.

Welcome back to Tennessee at 14:05 CDT.

Weigh mass station, no bypass, we drive through with no issues at 14:54 CDT.

Numbers:  181 miles to shipper.  We covered 270 miles including one customer delivery rolling out of Georgia and into Tennessee (and GA then TN again).  8 day total: 2825 miles.

Clocks: 6:24 hours on 11 hr,  5:40 hours on 14 hr,  1:23 hours on 70 hr.  Gain back about 12 hours tomorrow morning. 

No alarm clock ⏰ tomorrow.   Will need a trailer washout sometime tomorrow morning in the Nashville area.  Will try to see if they will load us early.  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 Tennessee

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