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I'd be much inclined to buy a current-edition Rand-McNally US Highway Atlas, too. You mentioned following some GPS directions, and that's a fine resource.
The roadway surface is generally smooth, important in a loaded rental truck, excepting some old and rough concrete sections in between about Fayetteville, NC and Weldon, NC. The I-295 bypass of Richmond, VA would be an obvious choice were you to run I-95, too. Doing so will require some timing and some luck, as DC-Balto-Philly are one after the other over a fairly short distance.īelow DC, I-95 is not only flat, but it is practically devoid of population centers once you get north of Jacksonville, FL and Savannah, GA. If you can avoid approaching DC, Baltimore, Philly, or northern NJ from the south any time between 6am and 10 am, and likewise avoid leaving from the same areas during the evening rush hour between, say, 4pm and 7pm, you might avoid the most maddening part(s) of a run up the Ho Chi Minh Trail (aka I-95). I would anticipate lots and lots of long, slow climbs were I to take the less congested but much more rolling route. My personal preference would be to avoid hilly and/or mountainous routes with the kind of load you'll be moving. By contrast, I-77 will be fairly rolling from Columbia, SC to Statesville, NC, very hilly to mountainous for 100 miles to I-81 as it climbs the Blue Ridge foothills and Blue Ridge Front, moderately to very hilly along I-81 to Harrisburg, and mountainous from Harrisburg at least to Scranton (traversing the Poconos). Dead flat from FL up through GA, SC, and NC, very slightly rolling through VA and MD, then dead flat again up the NJ Turnpike, I-295. For all intents and purposes, I-95 and ancillary routes leading up to the NY State Thruway (I-87) are pretty flat. That being said, your rental truck/car carrier combo will be somewhat to much easier to drive on a flat route. I normally avoid I-95 between Richmond and points north of NYC at all costs, so advice to avoid it is normally music to my ears. Last edited by Midwest Michael 01-23-2014 at 05:22 AM. If you leave in the AM, I'd be looking to make overnight stops in Columbia SC and Harrisburg PA. That is about 100 miles longer, but when you factor in the inevitable traffic of trying to get through the DC/NYC corridor, the travel time difference should not be too significant, and I believe the only tolls you'd see on this route would be a very short section of the NY Thruway between Schenectady and Albany.Īnyway you choose to go, you need to plan on this drive taking 2.5 days. I-81 will take you all the way to New York State, where you can use I-88 to cut over to Albany. From there, head north on I-26/I-77 to I-81 in Virginia. Instead, what I would recommend you take is follow your original plan of using I-95, but only as far as South Carolina. That doesn't even include tolls which would add a pretty huge expense. I-95 is not the route I would use at all! It is the most heavily used/congested highway in the US, and trying to navigate that with a large truck/trailer combo would be a big challenge, to put it lightly.
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