11 hours driving today - 600 miles - 55 mph - good going!
He could reach his goal in 3 more days . . .

Davenport weather forecast -

Cloudy with light snow likely early in the morning...Then mostly cloudy.
Areas of blowing snow in the late morning and early afternoon.
Little or no snow accumulation.
High around 11.
Temperature steady or slowly falling in the afternoon.
Northeast wind 10 to 20 mph increasing to northwest 20 to 30 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of snow 70 percent. Wind chill readings to 22 below.


Omaha weather -
Temperatures falling to zero to 5 above by late afternoon.
North winds 25 to 30 mph decreasing to 15 to 25 mph in the afternoon.
Chance of snow, 20 percent.
Wind chill values 15 below to 25 below zero in the afternoon.

Still square-wheeled with snow obliterating the windscreen (again). 08.00 local (GMT -6 hrs)

Hi G-CPTN, please do not book any holidays for 2009, until you have mailed Steve, and asked if you can ride shotgun with him for two weeks.

I am thinking that that would be your perfect holiday.

I'm intrigued to learn about this type of operation. I suppose many of you here will have done similar work. I drove down to the southern tip of Italy but only carried concrete blocks (and brought them back).
He's just cleared the windscreen again.

Rolling 09.20 local - plenty of snow . . .
He seems to be refuelling (again)?
Pick-up truck ploughing the parking lot.

The Laptop he uses is the Toshiba Satellite P205. 1.85GHz, 2GB RAM, 32-bit Windows Vista. Cobra 400 Watt Power Inverter to power the laptop from the truck's 12VDC system.

The web camera in use is the Logitec Orbit AF.

The Mobile Internet provider used is Sprint Broadband Access Plan.

Sprint Compass 597 USB Modem.

The Modem is also connected to a Wilson Cellular Truck Antenna to help give a better range.

The webcam video is processed by Windows Media Encoder 9 then uploaded to Camstreams.

Above from BigRigSteve website

That all sounds very technical and expensive. Have you uploaded any of yours to the site?.

I've seen folk with laptops (and digital cameras) 'spotting' near airports.
I know that some mobile 'phones can access the internet, but how does a laptop get connected (and are the costs similar to having a mobile 'phone running all the time)?

Sure looks purdy (with all that snow) . . .

Sprint Broadband as used by Steve -

Who can benefit from Sprint Mobile Broadband service?.
The clear winners are businessmen who travel a lot, whether it's flying in and out of airports or driving around the city while on-call. A mobile Internet service allows these people to continue to be productive, enjoying the benefits of a virtual office wherever they go.