Bypassing north side 285 from 75 to 85

53 looks like it may have some sort of truck restrictions on it between Tate and Gainesville.

20 is generally not a good option either, especially during the day. But it’s been a very long while since I ran across there. Maybe other local drivers can be of more help.

 

I’ve ran 53 from jasper over to 85. It’s a skinny,curvy road out of jasper. I don’t know how much time you’ll save. Maybe @RedForeman has a suggestion.

 

GA-53 is a good road all the way across. It's been a while since I ran it west of Gainesville, but I am pretty sure there are no truck restrictions. A few hills so a bit slower if you're heavy, but nothing all that extreme. It's only a time saver when there's wrecks or heavy traffic taking the I-285 route. GA-20 is too congested even on a good day.

 

What Red said, and it takes just a little more than 1.5 hours to go from 75 to 985 in Gainesville on a good day 2 hours on a bad day. Not sure how long it take to go from 985 to 85 maybe another 0.5 hours.

 

No restrictions on 53.

 

I guess I need a new trucker atlas. Mine says it’s a highlighted STAA route for about halfway, then stops for some reason.

 

Eh run it at night. Like midnight to two am when Atlanta is too busy sleeping off those mint juleps.

 

I haven’t looked at an atlas I couldn’t tell you but I have put a many of miles across there and never seen anyone pulled over.