How long do you drive/tow in a day?

ronharmless wrote:

JRscooby wrote:
...Well I have made the argument for decades as a adult I should be able to decide for myself when I was tired...

Well The OP and the rest of the people on this post also have the ability to decide for themselves when they are tired and how many drivers they have - regardless of your diatribe karen

I don't think I have told anybody how many hours they should drive. I have told what the legal limits are for a pro. And I freely admit that when I was young I often ran way beyond the legal limits. (and a couple of times the last year I worked I would stretch the daily limit) But a few times running close to the daily limit a few days in a row, I would find myself making quick lane changes, or even sliding trailer tires. When this happened, total up the hours. Add in the day log book says no work, but really spent the day on a dozer, and wow, I'm over on hours. Happened often enough that I know that it is much safer for me to spend a extra day traveling.
But then again, I have put down enough millions of miles without killing anybody I don't want to start now

JRscooby wrote:
...Well I have made the argument for decades as a adult I should be able to decide for myself when I was tired...

Well The OP and the rest of the people on this post also have the ability to decide for themselves when they are tired and how many drivers they have - regardless of your diatribe karen

Timmo! wrote:


Amen! It seems that some people are just plain ornery and snap at nice folks, just like a junkyard dog.

Pot meet kettle.

It is whatever you can do. Different each day.
Biggie is I like to be in the bed by 11pm. Otherwise if you stay up too late driving then that ruins the next day, u either dont get enough sleep or you sleep late so lose any time gains you made driving late.
However, with cities and traffic you might need to keep driving to get past a city so you drive through at night rather than at rush hour the next morning. Timing can be a big factor depending where you are. Dallas/Ft Worth is one I like to get thru at night, and the NE esp NY city is great to pass thru at 2 or 3 am.
My record is 20 hours.
12-14 hrs is common when I'm going across.
6am to 11pm is my range, and I like to take a 30 min siesta in the middle of the day.
Drive, and when you feel sleepy that is your cue to stop. Driving sleepy is like being drunk. Not worth it.
For me the hours of when I normally go to bed is when I get sleepy, before or after that I am fine. I dont try to drug myself up to stay awake, I just go all natural and let my body dictate rather than caffiene late at night...

When we go on long trips like Florida I try to do 10 hour days. Usually that is 2 ten hour days and then the last is about 7-8 hours. I have done a marathon of 16 1/2 hours once but, swear that won't happen again.

it all depends where I am heading. if I am just driving to the lake back home to go camping then I'll do a 10 hour day, I have done up to 15, but thats way to long. If I am on a long trip with multiple days of driving to get there then I shoot for about 8 to 10 hours the first day and about 6 hours of driving the following days. that varries a bit depending on where I am stopping but I generaly keep it to 6 hours or less on the following days.


Steve

We are not retired, both kids are still home (19 & 17). When we towed our HTT, we usually maxed out at about 400 miles a day. We did have one trip where we needed to get home and did 600 miles one day. When we had the motorhome, there were several times we would travel about 800 miles a day. One time, driving 900 miles.

-Michael

valhalla360 wrote:

Reisender wrote:
I can see from the reply’s that many here won’t have a problem adapting to RVing with an EV 1/2 ton towing a suitable trailer. Many seem laid back with their travels. And those only travelling a few hundred kilometers a day wouldn’t even have to stop to charge. Very occasionally we dead head 500 or 600 kilometers or maybe a little more. But most of the time we are just touring and enjoying the various parks and attractions. We would love to take a month and take the ocean side route from Vancouver to San Diego again. Maybe in a couple or three years.

250-300mile range in a very aerodynamically slippery small car vs a brick is going to cap the range at around 100miles or less.

Scale that up to a truck where it might have a 200kwh battery bank to get 100 mile range towing and it starts becoming a problem. With a small trailer on a 30amp site, you might have 1-2kw available for charging...that's 100-200hr to charge at the campground. Even if you talk your way into an 18ft trailer in a 50amp site and pull 9kw, it's still 22hr, so back to back driving days become problematic. You could go into a fast charge station but most aren't set up to accommodate trailers.

EV-RVs are still a long way off.

Hard to say. My guess is a cybertruck will have around 350 to 400 kilometres of towing range pulling a 24 trailer. For those like us and obviously many others that tour camp that would be fine. We rarely just stay one night at a camp ground. So charging at a camp ground would work. And we are noticing more of both DC fast chargers and Tesla Superchargers with one or two stalls set up for trailer towing. It’ll work fine for us. Wife has a cybertruck on order. Have to wait and see if we get it. We are pretty far down the list. Probably a few years before they get to us. :). It’s all good.

People are already RV’ing with EV’s so it’s not a long ways off. It’s here. There are a couple model ‘X s pulling rear drops in our area. I’ve talked to one of them. They toured Vancouver island last summer for 5 weeks. They had no issues. Once the Cybertruck is out it will have a larger impact.

Cheers.

BarabooBob wrote:
Why not keep it civil?....

Amen! It seems that some people are just plain ornery and snap at nice folks, just like a junkyard dog.

Reisender wrote:
I can see from the reply’s that many here won’t have a problem adapting to RVing with an EV 1/2 ton towing a suitable trailer. Many seem laid back with their travels. And those only travelling a few hundred kilometers a day wouldn’t even have to stop to charge. Very occasionally we dead head 500 or 600 kilometers or maybe a little more. But most of the time we are just touring and enjoying the various parks and attractions. We would love to take a month and take the ocean side route from Vancouver to San Diego again. Maybe in a couple or three years.

250-300mile range in a very aerodynamically slippery small car vs a brick is going to cap the range at around 100miles or less.

Scale that up to a truck where it might have a 200kwh battery bank to get 100 mile range towing and it starts becoming a problem. With a small trailer on a 30amp site, you might have 1-2kw available for charging...that's 100-200hr to charge at the campground. Even if you talk your way into an 18ft trailer in a 50amp site and pull 9kw, it's still 22hr, so back to back driving days become problematic. You could go into a fast charge station but most aren't set up to accommodate trailers.

EV-RVs are still a long way off.