How many miles have you towed in one day?

We may have done it when younger but rarely and now, no way. It's not just the driving fatigue but we want to be in a campground and parked ready to start diner by 5 or a little later in mid-summer. Even more important if you don't have reservations. Taking it easy and having time to enjoy the campground, even if 1 night, makes the trip more enjoyable to us.

BarneyS wrote:
Driving on the interstates when towing, you will average 50 mph after fuel stops, lunches, potty breaks etc. Decide how many hours you will like to drive (we usually make it 6 or 7) and then you can know where to look for a campground.
Barney

x2 on the 50mph average, unless you are one of those that tows at 85mph plus and only takes a break when absolutely necessary. I can easily calculate arrival times because no matter what, I only seem to go 50 miles in one hour.

Personally the MOST I will do under normal circumstances when towing is 400 miles. Too easy for fatigue to set in and I'm sure you know what that can lead to.

Things are a whole lot different towing vs not.

732 miles in about 13 hours all interstate. Did not stop and smell the roses.

Towing a trailer? Most was around 450, and it was tiring. Just driving the truck? Went from ATL to Tuscaloosa (picking up kid from school) to Mich, around 1100 miles. Started at 7a got home 1:30a the next day. When my eyes got tired I would stop for a 20 minute cat nap, and be good for another 2 hours. Had to make 2 stops like that. You get to a point when you just want to be home. But, never again (kid is done with UA, ROLL TIDE)

I find these threads often break on demographics. Retired and no kids tend to run shorter days, working and kids in school tend to run longer days because schedules are tighter. If we're taking our young kids to Disney/Zoo/Universal/etc in southern California, that's where we want to spend our limited vacation time. Not smelling the non-existent roses in the desolate Nevada desert on our way from and back to home in Idaho. In that scenario we're going to run hard there and back and maximize our time at the destination.

500 max towing. 740 in a car. Either way I leave early enough to arrive before dinner. We usually have tentative plans but in transit we often search for our landing in the early afternoon. Depending on conditions we go a little long or a little short.

We have done over 500 a number of times on the first day to get on down the road. But nothing close on subsequent days. Over 10 hours is definitely a long time in the truck. Often on trips that long, the DW will drive part of the way to break up the monotony. It is only "too long" or "too far" if it is "too long" or "too far" for YOU or your wife, not what everyone else thinks.

Happy wife equals happy life. Better listen to her

We have a 300 mile limit. By the time you get ready to leave , drive 300 miles and setup that's about 3:00 in the afternoon. That leaves a little time to enjoy instead of going 600 miles having a few issues and arguing because your tired . Vacations are for enjoyment.

10 to 12 hours is what I aim for. Sometimes that's 500 miles, sometimes it's a lot less with construction or congestion.

A few times I've done more but almost always regretted it, since being over tried wrecks the next few days for me.

I'm still working and as a contractor, there's no paid time off, so every day on the road is expensive... Going slowly to smell roses isn't in the cards right now.