[AT] Trucking a tractor back from Nova Scotia

[charlie hill]

If you go on Google Maps and do a directions search for the two towns it 
will show you a map with a blue lined route.  Then you can take the cursor 
and put it on the blue line.  The cursor will turn into a little hand and 
you can drag the line onto other routes or through other cities.  It takes a 
little practice to get good at it but once you catch on it will recalculate 
the routes any way you think you might want to go and give you distance and 
time for each route.

Give it a try.  Good luck with the tractor Guy!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry Welch" <terry1955 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Trucking a tractor back from Nova Scotia


> Aw come on Jerry there is nothing like driving the sky way at 12am on the 
> fourth of July. I make a few trips from Wisc( Guy knows where) to 
> Allentown PA and Virginia Beach VA a year. I do try different routes and 
> last year made a side trip to the Falls. But first stopped in Youngstown 
> to look at the Tod Project and get some info on a stationary steam engine 
> I helped move. It was a pleasnt trip, both ways. I took 80 one way and 90 
> the other. Toll and none toll. As for going through Chicago I try and time 
> it at about 5am and have no problems, Any other time during the day is 
> nuts. The same as Atlanta or Washington DC. Have a good trip
> Terrry
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Alan Nadeau <ajnadeau1 at verizon.net>
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 6:14:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Trucking a tractor back from Nova Scotia
>
> Jerry,
>
> I forgot about 90 going through Chicago.  I "discovered" that run out 
> around
> 39 last fall, coming home from Deerfield, WI.  I absolutely refused to pay
> the rapist tolls on whatever that route is that runs around by O'Hare
> Airport.  They just about triple the tolls for having a single axle 
> trailer
> behind a car.
>
> As for 80 saving hundreds of miles I'm not so sure on that.  First time I
> had to go west I ran three routes, one on 90, one on 88 to Binghamton and
> then whatever route connects back to 90 right by Erie, and the third via 
> 87
> and 80.  They all came out too close to choose when I ran one of them 
> little
> map wheel gadgets on them.  I ended up going a mishmash of routes, 88 to 
> 81
> and then 80 where it crosses 81 south of Wilkes-Barre (?).  I was towing
> overloaded with a pickup and never got so sick of climbing grades at 45 in
> my life.  I don't drive to WI as often as you do but, for me, I'll take 
> the
> relative flatness of 90 to any of the alternate routes if I'm towing. 
> I've
> made four trips either from Chicago area or Erie, PA back to Burlington, 
> VT
> in the past four years, pulling one of those little 4x8 light duty (1200lb
> cap.) trailers behind our Honda Element.  Honda says you can leave it on
> overdrive unless it's shifting constantly.  Running 90 there are only two
> hills between Chicago and Albany, that require me to shift out of OD with
> 1,000 lbs on the trailer.  They both happen to be on 90 in western NY.
>
> Al Nadeau
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jerry Rhodes" <jerry38 at alltel.net>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Trucking a tractor back from Nova Scotia
>
>
>> Guy, I think Alan got you started right BUT when you bring I-90 across
>> above
>> NYC pickup I-87 west/south to I-80 will save you 100s of miles in the 
>> end,
>> I-80 will come together with I-90 in NE Ohio, take 80/90 across OH and IN
>> to
>> to I-39 then north to I-90 again no big cities..I've drove this route (
>> Boston to Wauasu WI) about 10 times in the past year an will not take 
>> I-90
>> thru the "Windy City" ever...
>>
>> Jerry NW Ohio
>
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