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MP, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:39:03 AM EDT
[#1]
This is why we have such devastating freeway accidents. Fatigued drivers that are barely awake.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:39:26 AM EDT
[#2]
This last December I drove from Dallas, TX to Hickory, NC in a Penske van loaded with 4 large dogs, a cat, and the wife. A little over a 1000 miles which took around 17 hours.
Never again. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:41:51 AM EDT
[#3]
991 miles in just over 12 hours
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:41:52 AM EDT
[Last Edit: PlaneJane]
[#4]
Dallas to DC, 1300+ miles, 23 hours.
There was this guy … I missed him. ETA: I could have cut an hour or so off that, if I could piss in a milk bottle. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:42:11 AM EDT
[#5]
Not as long as my two previous trips mentioned above, but 978 miles from Payson, AZ to Dallas with 5000 rounds of 50 cal in my truck bed. I felt it prudent not to stop overnight.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:42:31 AM EDT
[#6]
~1100 miles straight in 17 hours in my Corvette
I mention the car only because so many people complain about the ride quality, but I love to drive. I definitely wasn’t out to set any speed records on that trip. |
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USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:42:45 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Meathook]
[#7]
Little over 18 hours about 1200 miles.
These days my wife and I drive 10-12 at a time. If it is a long drive say 16-25 hours we typically drive until neither of us feels like driving anymore then pull into a rest stop cover all the windows and sleep for a few hours then drive some more. If we are staying somewhere we try to limit it to 10-12 a day usually pushing the first day to make the second day shorter. Since the bed bug thing my wife is really leery of staying in hotels. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:43:20 AM EDT
[#8]
1150
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:43:36 AM EDT
[#9]
Originally Posted By Tactical_Jew: Let’s say 10 or 12 hours straight. I was behind the wheel 12 hours and it sucked. When I was much younger, I drove from Pocatello, Idaho, to Lexington, Virginia, in one shot. 33 hours. Man that sucked. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:44:09 AM EDT
[#10]
Moab to CA, in our Motorhome, Towing our Jeep. 14 hours.
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IN, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:44:58 AM EDT
[#11]
1011 miles on a motorcycle so I could join the iron butt club
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:46:17 AM EDT
[#12]
12 hours, all overnight from Myrtle Beach to Youngstown OH. About 700 miles.
And fuck the WV Parkway that road suuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:50:01 AM EDT
[#13]
Driving Solo, from home to Sioux Falls SD, about 900 miles
Teamed up with someone else, made it from Detroit to Daytona in about 20 odd hours. |
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AL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:52:04 AM EDT
[#14]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By rx4spd: ~1100 miles straight in 17 hours in my Corvette I mention the car only because so many people complain about the ride quality, but I love to drive. I definitely wasn't out to set any speed records on that trip. If I was going to get another 'vette, especially since I'd use it more for road tripping then hardcore racing I'd get a C8 2LT Coupe, Front Lift, and Magnetic Ride Control and call it a day. The 2LT adds the HUD and ventilated/heated seats and a couple other basic things for comfort. I mean yeah i'd love a Z06 or eRay but I don't have much time to track anymore and even a stock C8 is an amazing vehicle and a performance steal. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:52:25 AM EDT
[#15]
I drove 13.5 hours to Richmond, VA for lobby day 2020. Slept in my car, went to the rally, and drove 13.5 hours back home the same day.
The most I've done in one shot was only about 30 minutes longer than that. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:53:23 AM EDT
[#16]
24 hours, won't do it again.
Seems a popular stance among those who have done it. 
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:57:18 AM EDT
[#17]
Just under 20 hrs from Orlando to northern OH, 1100 miles. It is 17 hours straight through, but with stops, it stretches to almost 20.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 8:59:56 AM EDT
[#18]
Winchester, VA to Plano, TX
1,282 miles and 21 hours Do not recommend. 
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:00:24 AM EDT
[#19]
14 hours straight through, gas stops only. Never again.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:04:03 AM EDT
[#20]
Off the top of my head probably from Amarillo to here in San Diego County, about 1100ish miles.
One time I drove from Michigan all the way into Arizona, but I might have stopped and slept in my vehicle, it was 34 years ago so a little fuzzy. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:04:32 AM EDT
[#21]
I never really kept track of how long I did in a day but I use to drive from south Florida to central Minnesota. I only stopped to get diesel. I used pee jugs to eliminate rest stops.
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NC, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:05:12 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Grug]
[#22]
26 hours around 1850 miles.. wouldnt do it again
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:05:21 AM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mech4matsnova: 3x Iron Butt(on a dyna w/ fairing or windshield). In 4 wheels? Probably 1200-1300mi in 16-17 hrs. How far for the iron butt? I did a 900ish mile day on my bike one time, it was pretty brutal. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:07:17 AM EDT
[#24]
Here to San Francisco, about 700 miles. That's about all I care to do in a day.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:08:00 AM EDT
[#25]
17-18 or so hours a few times. Yuma to DFW and DFW to Orlando.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:10:50 AM EDT
[Last Edit: sdc360]
[#26]
Ohio to Yellowstone, drove 20 hours took a quick nap and finished the leg to Cody. Made it in about 30 hours with normal stops and a quick detour through the black hills.
Put 6k miles on a rental Tahoe on that vacation… fun times. That was 15 years ago… no way I would try to do it again. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:11:58 AM EDT
[#27]
Corpus Christi, Tx to San Diego non stop (except for gas, food, restroom breaks)
23 hrs. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:12:35 AM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ecreps: 24 hours, do not recommend. I think it was roughly 1500 miles. Ft Bragg NC to Lubbock, Texas. Took me right at 24hrs. Did it a few times when I was stationd there. That drive sucked. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:15:31 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By PlaneJane: Dallas to DC, 1300+ miles, 23 hours. There was this guy … I missed him. ETA: I could have cut an hour or so off that, if I could piss in a milk bottle. Should have worn a diaper. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:16:09 AM EDT
[#30]
12+ hours 745 miles to Hurricane WV .
Went with another guy from work. I drove the whole way |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:16:13 AM EDT
[#31]
1,000 miles plus a few.
Gillette, WY to just east of Tulsa, OK. Frequent slow zones due to wrecks and constructon. 17 hours behind the wheel. Sucked. Was much younger. Would pull over for hotel much earlier these days. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:16:21 AM EDT
[#32]
13 probably 6 times a year.
Back and forth fro SW FL to W NC. Worth it to get done in one day. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:17:22 AM EDT
[#33]
17 hours.
SATX to Yuma. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:18:20 AM EDT
[#34]
1200 miles
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:20:04 AM EDT
[#35]
I’ve done ~900 miles several times. From west Texas to TN, from CO to TN.
My most grueling day was ~1227 miles in ~24 hours including maybe 4 hours of very fitful, intermittent attempts to rest in the car at interstate rest stops. Started late morning in Cheyenne, WY, headed back home to TN. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:20:06 AM EDT
[#36]
18hrs. Wasn't on purpose but didn't realize a baseball tournament was going on in Kentucky and every hotel was booked. Drove from Houston, Tx to Cincinnati, Ohio straight. Was heading to PA but had planned to stop in Kentucky but didn't plan well enough and actually book a hotel.
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IL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:20:32 AM EDT
[#37]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ecreps: 24 hours, do not recommend. I think it was roughly 1500 miles. ^This From Chicago-land to Ocala FL, with two young kids. SUCKED! |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:20:34 AM EDT
[#38]
2246 miles straight in my younger days.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:20:59 AM EDT
[#39]
- 715 miles in 11 hours was rather routine for me going to/from college.
- East Alabama to Jackson, WY, might be the longest I can think of for being by myself. 1900 miles in just under 2 days, if I recall. Drive until midnight or so, then sleep an hour, drive a few hours, sleep an hour, drive an hour, and resume continuous driving around dawn; repeat. - 3900 miles from Virgnia to a lake up in the Yukon was the longest, but there were two of us for 3200 of that. Stopping at a gas station in the middle of Montana waiting for them to open in the morning, the Mt Robson campground, and some motel in Toad River, BC, were our only stops for sleep - and we wouldn't have even made that stop in Montana were we not perilously low on gas. - Leaving Virginia at 4:00am on a Thursday morning and rolling into the Longs Peak parking lot at RMNP around 9:30am on Friday morning stands out in my mind as the most brutal. I was passed out in a puddle of my own vomit by 11,000 feet, and had a 90 pound pack to 13,000 by evening. (This included routing through downtown Chicago to pick up my friend.) |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:22:42 AM EDT
[#40]
Self driving cars will change all this
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:24:30 AM EDT
[#41]
I do 18 hrs then 10 hrs in two days driving out west at least once a year to hunt.
It sucks but it’s doable with an A driver. Audio books are the key. I sorta enjoy the drive out. The drive back really sucks as you are losing time with the fine change as well. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:24:57 AM EDT
[#42]
508 miles, 22º temp on a CBR900RR, stopped only for fuel. I was younger then.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:25:10 AM EDT
[#43]
In 2010 I drove a U-haul with car trailer from Clearwater, FL to the suburbs of Boston, MA in one stretch only stopping for fuel/food/cigs.
Would not recommend. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:26:50 AM EDT
[#44]
24hrs to Mcallen TX. Wouldn't be able to do it again though. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:27:42 AM EDT
[#45]
Tampa to Fredericksburg, VA in 12.5 hours. Last three hours in heavy rain. Sucked...
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:30:28 AM EDT
[#46]
1,100 miles or so, New Orleans to Pittsburgh, took about 16 hours. I was 20 years younger though---not something I care to repeat.
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:34:41 AM EDT
[#47]
19ish hours.
We pulled over when I started hallucinating. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:34:58 AM EDT
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Originally Posted By Tactical_Jew: Let’s say 10 or 12 hours straight. I was behind the wheel 12 hours and it sucked. Probably about that much. I have made 2 trips from Tennessee to Wyoming to shoot prairie poodles, which takes me about 2 days to drive, with a vehicle full of guns and ammo. |
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:37:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By BuckeyeRifleman:The drive back really sucks as you are losing time with the fine change as well. I have been out west hunting 3x now in the last ~15 years. I hope to do more of it. I've always thought it was like stretching a rubber band - the further west I go, the tighter that band gets, then I enjoy my trip but always feel the tension on that band. When it's time to head home it's like letting the rubber band go and it gives a big push, or tailwind, and I can do loooong drives to reach home. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/23/2024 9:43:48 AM EDT
[#50]
From my mother's driveway in Pampa Texas to my driveway in Jacksonville Florida in 22 hours and 17 mins.
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