How many days to travel 1,260 miles?

Slowmover wrote:

bid_time wrote:
Your driving 10 hours a day ("I do this for a living") and only traveling 400 miles a day. Any proper towing combo should be able to do 65 mph on the freeway except in heavy traffic. I guess that's the reason for your handle.

The ignorance about relative safety is discouraging.

There is no pickup truck that, solo, brakes decently at or above 65. Better hope that there is absolutely no call for steering while braking. Injuries and deaths from rollovers aren't a fantasy.

Hook up a trailer with its typically substandard brakes and poorly adjusted WD hitch and the situation is worse. Leaf-sprung TT with **** tires and high COG? Almost the worst vehicle of any description on the road.

Then, take the advice of idiots about multiple high mile days. "Experience" consisting of one day is irrelevant. It's ones condition in Days Two, Three and maybe Four. Fatigue affects every aspect of driving. It's like being drunk.

Yeah, that's the ticket. I'll never experience fatigue, white-line fever or fail to stop often enough for adequate breaks in time or duration.

Stupid advice from stupid people.

Make a plan that has plenty of elbow room. For those that missed it, 40-45/mph average speed includes all stops.

But this is a crowd with members with apparently no understanding of how concepts encapsulate principles. The pieces will fall into place, then.

That screen name dates to days with overdimensional freight. Usually at over 100k and well off the sides. A courtesy to the other drivers on the CB that we were dragging along at such-and-such a point.

Now that you've had your rant, you might just take into consideration that some people have a higher tolerance for longer drives than you have. One size does not fit all. While your advice may work for many, it is not the only possible way to go.

If I were making the OP's trip as a destination journey, I'd make it 2 days with one good night's sleep in between. 600 miles per day for 2 days is no big deal for me as long as I can keep 60-65 mph most of the time on the road. That is only one fuel stop somewhere around mid day for my TT/truck combo. My TT follows my F-150 quite comfortably (about 5000 lbs total trailer weight loaded the way we go).

If I was making a sightseeing trip and planning to see stuff along the way, then I might not do more than 250 miles per day and make the journey into an adventure of exploration. But short days like that would not be because I was incapable of driving longer, it would just be a different kind of travel plan.

I don't say that long driving days are right for everyone. Some look at such a drive as stressful and can psych themselves out before they ever hit the road, while I see it as something to approach with eager anticipation.