Route help! Oklahoma City to San Diego.

Nope, not your problem, nothing you can do about the delay.

 

I can think of a few different wast to get there, but nothing that will be any faster.

Send a message to "dispatch": haste makes waste.

@Dave_in_AZ

 

If your company doesn't have a problem with tolls, look long and hard at the following route (I run this on at least a weekly basis from OKC to Midland/Odessa):

Take I-44 westbound (south) to Wichita Falls, TX.

Take US-277 west/southbound (all four lane divided highway) to Anson. At the traffic light (only one you will see) turn right (west) on US-180.

Go about 30 miles to Roby. At the four way stop (the first stop sign you will see) turn left (south) on TX-70.

Just before Sweetwater you will start to drop down a steep hill that curves to the right. Drop some gears and fire up the Jakes. As you pass under the railroad tressle put on your left turn signal and make that turn to stay on TX-70 with as much speed as possible up a steep hill.

In two miles you come to the second and last stop sign. Turn left and get into the right lane. Go around the curve and exit onto the I-20 westbound merge.

Now take I-20 to the I-10 merge and split off on I-8 before Phoenix.

This route has much lower elevation and would totally avoid the Phoenix cluster ####.

 

All I know is that 125 (toll road) is a real time saver when you near the final destination. You can pay online later if i recall right. If I think you are going near Otay Mesa or so. It won't save you time over what your GPS says, it will just allow you to maintain that time.

i-805 is a joke.

 

^^^ I concur ^^^

 

One thing about my route suggestion is that it will avoid long slogs on steep hills on I-40 and I-25. Most of the run will be cruising. The OKC to Midland/Odessa portion is ALL freeway speed except in Anson, Roby, and making the final stop and turn near Weatherford.

 

I just looked at the Google Maps options from just before the I-40/I-44 junction in OKC. According to GM it's almost two hours longer using my route, BUT GM estimates times based on what a car can do (travel the speed limit).

There's no way I would drop gears and pull hills on that I-40/I-25 gig, let alone deal with stop and crawl in Phoenix...

...BUT it might depend on what time of day you get through Albuquerque or Phoenix. What time are you going to start your clock, and where are you east of OKC?