Best way to avoid i35 San Antonio to Dallas

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Kolorado, Apr 17, 2015.

  1. Kolorado

    Kolorado Medium Load Member

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    I travel from larado to Darien WI back and forth and I really hate I 35 looking at the Atlas I see 281 to 67 from San Antonio to Dallas do u think this would be a better route.... Today it took me 2 hours from Austin to round Rock...
     
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  3. Dna Mach

    Dna Mach Road Train Member

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    That's an excellent alternative to that horrible stretch of I-35. Run US281 north to Hico Texas where you will catch SH220 north to US67 north and up into Dallas. Got some friends that run from Dallas to San Antonio daily and run 281. Saves a few hours a day round trip.
     
  4. chalupa

    chalupa Road Train Member

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    The corridor is much better at night. I had a milk run from Hou to SA to RR to Denton. I had the carrier re-dispatch it to night shift ...much better cruise.

    Just saying....
     
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  5. 07shaker

    07shaker Light Load Member

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    281 is a very nice road. There are some lights as youre coming out of San Antonio that can slow you down if you catch them wrong but otherwise its great. Some parts of it are 75 mph. Don't know if you're paying for your own fuel or not but the fuel in Lampasas is usually the cheapest around. At night 35 would be faster though.
     
  6. buzzarddriver

    buzzarddriver Road Train Member

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    If you don't mind the tolls, TX 130 from above Georgetown to I-10 just east of San Antonio is About $32 for a truck/trailer. Then you skip I-35 from Austin to San Antonio. Don't need a TXTag. Then shoot the license plate and mail the toll to the registered owner.

    www.txtag.org/en/about/tollroad_sh130.shtml
     
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  7. STexan

    STexan Road Train Member

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    281 north out of San Antonio can be bad during peak rush hours near downtown, the airport, and north of loop 1604, but otherwsie it's not a bad run and there are a few places to stop and eat or break.

    But, given no traffic either way, 281 will probably be at least 50 minutes longer given towns and such and often is more then I-35 traffic would have cost.

    I guess then your company won't pay tolls? (N to Buda, then told road to N of Georgetown) especially if you have a fast truck. But that does't help with the construction and slow areas S of Temple and S of Hillsboro and high likelihood of a crash causing long backup somewhere along there.
     
  8. maggard359

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    I used to leave Dallas at midnight and be rolling into laredo by daylight. Only problems I had running nights were Mexican convoys driving a school bus pulling a camper with a Toyota chained to the back doing 35 with dim lights. If going east of Dallas I got off at San Marcos and ran 21 to 79 all way to Shreveport and up 3 brought you out just east of scales, you won't make better time but it's a good ride and grandma is always happy to see you on that route. 281 if you needing to make daylight time.
     
  9. TripleSix

    TripleSix God of Roads

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    exit 205 near San Marcos, pick up 21 to 77 to 79. I stay off 35 during the day, but like you find that you cover so much more miles at night. I'd leave Laredo at 8 PM. In 11 hours you will be in Kansas, or near Little Rock, depending on your route. And a largecar, running the speed limit, will put you somewheres between emporium,ks and Kansas City legally.
     
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  10. chalupa

    chalupa Road Train Member

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    I used to leave Dallas at midnight and be rolling into laredo by daylight. Only problems I had running nights were Mexican convoys driving a school bus pulling a camper with a Toyota chained to the back doing 35 with dim lights.

    No joke either, Same out of Houston to the valley. So bad and so scary I simply stayed in the hammer until I reached CC. I have smoked many a tire ducking these clowns.

    Just sayin....
     
  11. guntowntrucker

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    130 toll road WITH OUT A DOUGHT, screw austin tx, i'd rather take an ### whoopin than run I-35 thru there. you just have to find out where you need to go east to hit it.
    if it was me i would get on fm 1327 in Buda and go east to the toll road. once there you are on easy street all the way back to I-35 in Georgetown
     
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