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Straw Boss

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Get to help drive my daughter from South Dakota to Jacksonville, North Carolina.
We put off the departure date a bit hoping things will clear up by the time we get there.
We'll leave early tomorrow morning (Sat.) and will take 2-3 days to drive it depending on the roads and how ambitious we are. There's no schedule.

With all the weather happenings back east, I'd sure like to know what we'll running into for ice and snow. We'll be driving an all wheel drive Ford Edge with good tires but also over-loaded a bit as she's moving all her stuff.

Plan on driving I-29 south to Kansas City, Missouri.
Head East on I-70 to St. Louis, Missouri.
Jump onto I-64 thru Illinois and Indiana and thru Lexington Kentucky to Charleston, West Virginia.
Turn south on I-64/I-77 down to Winston Salem.
Then work our way SE on I-40 to a side road into Jacksonville.

If any of you live along this route, could you please let me know what condition your roads are and your weather outlook for the next few days.
I know I can depend on my fellow YTers for a better report than the weather service.
Thanks in advance! (Missed the National Farm Show in Kentucky. shucks!)
 
Straw One of my over the road trucks left St Louis this morning going east on 64 over & thru Indiana and he has not mentioned any bad weather. He is 65 tons + and 14 ft wide so the state would not issue permits if the weather or roads were bad.
 
The leg of your journey from Charleston WV to Beckley WV is a toll road. It will cost about 6 bucks. There are three toll booths collecting two dollars a piece.

I will try to get you road conditions tomorrow morning as we are expecting an inch or so tonight.

Aaron
 
I-70 across MO should be all clear. Temps expected to be in the 40s Saturday and warming into the 60s early next week.

I wouldn't take 64 through Saint Louis. You're better off to take I-270 around the north side, then on the Illinois side I-255 South will get you back to 64.
 
Download an app called "Waze" to your iphone? It has real time info on road conditions accidents etc. Data put in by other people traveling that route. You get up to the minute road info.
 
I hate the interstate in w.va. it banks and leans the wrong way of every curve . this time of year I'd take interstate 40 all the way from Arkansas .It's warm and beautiful in Jacksonville this time of year and I live about 200 miles north
 
We're expecting a little snow/ice overnight here in western Iowa. Check www.511ia.org in the morning before you head this way. It was slick this morning in west central Iowa.
 
I'm with you, 36 is 4-lane from St.Joe to Hannibal with no traffic, bypasses small towns except for a stoplight in Cameron.
 
go ahead and run I-70 to I-64 through St. Louis. Should have no problems and will be able to take the new bridge over the Mississippi River. Just watch the road signs when you are getting close to the river, the GPS won't have the correct route.

All roads should be clear tomorrow in So. Ill.
 
Thanks meangreen. I was figured the first leg would be the easiest and it sounds like it will be. I think we'll get into S.Falls by 9:00 or 10:00 am and stretch our legs at the Farm Toy Show for an hour or two, eat a barbecue and hit the road again. Should be in Iowa by early afternoon. Hope I don't find a pedal tractor or something else I can't fit into the overhead compartment on the flight back home. Ha!
 
Thanks. Bk. I wondered about shooting straight thru and if I shouldn't go around the North side. Your saying its not so bad with the new bridge? I guess we have options. Thanks.
 
That was our second option but it would cost us more time and miles. I wouldn't be able to get to I-40 until about Nashville TN. without going too far south. Am I crazy to stay north as far as I can? (Yet stay away from Chicago and Lake Michigan) I want to stay away from warm weather which causes freezing rain. We're 3 degrees here as I write this. I just don't know what to expect farther down in TN this time of year. Or KY for that matter, so I figured the straightest route for no other reason.
 
OK. Good to know! Looks like I can take I-72 from Hannibal Missouri to at least Springfield, drop down on I-55 to Atwater and take the scenic route on Hwy 127 down to I-64. Looks like about 64 miles of non-interstate driving. That'll be OK in the daylight. We're going to stay flexible and decide some of the route as we go. Thanks for the input!
 
Hey Brad, drove to NC almost every week with the truck for 15 years. Can give some advice if you need it as we took a different route than what you are seeing here and can shave miles and still be all interstate if that's what you want. Guess you have my cell number.
 
According to Google maps, and assuming you are going through Sioux City SD (used it as the starting point) it is 50 miles shorter if you only drop down to Omaha and catch I-80 east.

I just use it to find distances. I use a map and esperience for routing.

Take I-74 from the quad cities to Indianapolis, I-70 to Dayton, Ohio, I-75 south through the city to route 35, which is all 4-lane to Charleston save a few miles in West Virginia.

From there you'll follow 77 south to North Carolina, where you'll make a left exit onto I-74 a couple miles past the scale house.

At Winston-Salem, you'll want to take route 421 east, but if you miss it you can go a few more miles and catch I-40 directly. Which is often easier, depending on what time you hit.

That way you hit Des Moines, Indy, and Dayton, but you avoid Kansas City, St Louis, Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, and Statesville. The canyon is pretty crooked at the east end of Tennessee as well. I77 can be crooked too, but they have a little more equipment for getting snow off the road.

Actually, if I wanted to get down and get on I-40 as soon as possible I'd take 64 out of St Louis, then 57 south to I-24, which will hook you up with 40 in Crashville.

Used to see a lot of North Carolina, ran down there/through there out of Erie, PA. Had a dispatcher for a few months that couldn't dispatch. What you did the week that the old dispatcher left, is what you did all summer. They finally canned him the day I strongly hinted at bodily harm if I made the same two trips for a third week in a row, in front of the boss' wife.
 
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