Question about going to Texas

Whereabouts in Ohio are you starting and where in Texas are you heading to?

It's been a while since I've been north of the Red River but IIRC you should be just fine if you take I-70, I-44, and US 69.

Once you get here there are no mountains east of the Pecos. There are a couple good grades on I-10 around the 500 mile marker, but they're not very long and you should be able to handle them just fine using the proper gear and braking. Same thing with Ranger Hill up on I-20.

 

I'm from Texas too, and if you get on a ranch road in West Texas you will find some. I went out there a few years back on personal business and my wife went with me. I think I was going south out of Marathon and I saw what I thought was a hill, and the more I went up that thing the less of a hill it became. About half way up I lost sight of the road and all I could see was the hood of my truck and blue sky. I was a little rattled, but my poor wife was about 3 shades whiter than she started the day with and had a good bit of leather sucked up her skinny a s s. It couldn't have much over a mile pull, but that had to be the longest mile I ever drove.

 

No permit or escorts for the loads they are talking about.

 

No permit for 62,000 pound load?

 

Nope

thats a good rate I wouldn’t of called that a weakness lol
Most every I know of is about a 1.00 under that on a 50k base right now I’am not complaining. Would he have hooked ya to a quad or a tri ?

 

What escort ?

 

There’s one that goes up to Iraan that’s fairly steep. Two lane. No shoulder. Especially when you loaded to the gills with NGL

 

I was talking about livestock. So no permits or escorts needed. Just a 53 foot quad and little need for sleep.

 

It would’ve been a quad. But I’m lazy and I like my sleep now.