[AT] Trucking a tractor back from Nova Scotia

[Jerry Rhodes]

Right Terry, 5pm on Fridays works too...LOL..Atlanta at 4am weekdays or 6am 
on Sundays.. normally when I'm coming home from out east I bring I-80 back 
to I-76 just in side OH ..I-76 to Lodi an I-71 south to US 30 west to Van 
Wert ( 15 miles from home) .. I think Guy will do good what ever route he 
take..take the same one both ways and check for your fuel/rest stops..good 
luck

Jerry NW Ohio
----- 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>
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> 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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