How far can you comfortably tow in a day?
We are relatively new to the RV life style. We have a 28ft trailer and while we've towed it a couple of hundred miles on weekend trips we haven't travelled any long days. Next month we plan to tow i...
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Bull Rider wrote:
We pull a 30' bumper pull, and almost always we average 50 miles made good per hour. So we try and keep in to no more than six hours of driving, so that's 300 miles a day. We can "Iron Ass" it if/when there's some pressing need. But six hours is about enough driving.
We did some 12 hour days back before retirement, but that's just way too many hours and miles.
Good luck....
Same here and on longer than about a two day trip we will even cut that down to the 250mi distance since with fuel and potty stops (wife and two Yorkies) that will still equate to around 6+ hours on the road. On really long trips (more than 1500mi) we will try and have a down day for about every 4 days of straight driving, but usually that is not necessary cause we stop for more than a day to do something over that distance.
Finally a couple of factors can effect how long you should drive because of the heightened awareness with those being the weather and road conditions. Stretches and sections of I-95 in the Carolinas were especially tiresome when the road was "POTHOLE ALLEY" mainly in the far right lane next to the shoulder.
Larry
