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Originally Posted by CoachKandSportsguy

i bought the F250 to pull whatever we buy, large, small, truck is comfortable as we are driving down the first week in December. Trailers are cheap, but we are staying only two weeks, checking in on the rental and taking vacation days as well, so not renting one.. The diesel gets 19+ mpg with a 32 gallon tank, can get 600 mi per tank, so we stop to fillup only twice, usually at lunch the first day and then lunch the second day. .

1,250 miles from Worcester, door to door, but we have only driven straight through once, during the height of the pandemic, with no cars on the road. We try to leave by 4 AM, to get through NY by 8 AM to avoid the commuter hour, and that gets us to Richmond VA by 1 PM for lunch. We can make SC by sunset for a shorter drive on the second day. But the back is grouchy after the second day, and same for the way home. With big holiday weekends, Memorial Day, fourth of July, etc, we take longer but less traffic routes, through Delaware, or the western route. . . The western route adds 1-2 hours, due to smaller lane counts and slightly longer distance.

Drive safely, always leave 4 car lengths which people hate, but you still are driving the same speed, so the difference in arrival time is about several seconds. .

sportsguy

Our drive is a little shorter than yours since we depart from the western part of the state, but we hate busy high traffic areas so we always do one of two western routes, going no where near NYC, NJ, Delaware, Baltimore or Washington DC. Mass pipe to the Taconic south to 84 west to 81 south. From 81 we either take rt. 66 (about 12 miles south of Winchester, VA) to 17 and hit 95 in Fredericksburg, VA, or alternatively we take 81 all the way to rt. 77 south going toward/through Charlotte to rt. 26 east and hit 95 in South Carolina only about an hour from the Georgia boarder. Either way is about the same distance and adds over a hundred miles to the most direct route, but the drive is much more predictable and stress free. Since it is two long days of driving regardless of the route we take, we don’t risk venturing near major metropolitan areas.