Tool: how far can I travel in x hours?

Bobbo wrote:
How far can I travel in X hours? Take the speed I plan to drive (62 mph for me). Reduce it by about 20% to take into account stops/slow downs/etc, multiply that by the number of hours.

Don't need no stinkin' online calculator, and it is close every time I use it.

62 mph * 0.8 = 50 mph for x hours

The advantage of the tool in the original link is that it will show you a radius from your location based on your average mph and time.

So, for me, I can plug in the average mph and hours and see how many camping spots fall in that radius from my home.

How far can I travel in X hours? Take the speed I plan to drive (62 mph for me). Reduce it by about 20% to take into account stops/slow downs/etc, multiply that by the number of hours.

Don't need no stinkin' online calculator, and it is close every time I use it.

62 mph * 0.8 = 50 mph for x hours

I use to often drove (car, not RV) from Ohio to my late brother's house in Florida in 12-13 hours pretty much straight through. My Audi would routinely go over 550 miles per tank but I would usually stop where the gas price was low (like SC) and top off. My speed was near the posted speed limit, I just didn't stop unless I had to. I was working 12 hour rotating shifts at the so the day felt like just another work day but with better scenery. Also being a lifelong gearhead I love to drive.

Now the age old prostate problem requires more, make that many more, stops. Combined with a class B that has a ravenous appetite for fuel especially over 60 mph to seems that travel times have become glacial. Before retirement I had to hurry because of job related time restraints. Retirement should bring a "slow down and enjoy the scenery" attitude but now I start thinking "how long before I can't do this anymore?" and start trying to pack in as much as possible while I can.

To be a little more on topic, I usually count on 60-65 average by car, 55-60 by RV and drive 10 hours or so if I am driving all day.

"Dtank".....very funny.

kohai wrote:
Many RVers have a rule of only driving x number of hours a day (they choose what x is). I was curious how many camping locations were around my home within a half day drive.

I went in search of online tools that would show this and I discovered these two:

How far can I travel? - This tool lets you enter a speed and control more variables (miles vs km, how fast, avoid highways, etc). There are some other similar tools on this site.

Another tool - This one takes longer to run and frequently will timeout without finishing.

I don't think either of these take into account the speed on a road like Google maps does, which would be helpful. But, they are better than a simple radius tool showing how many miles from a location based on how the bird flies.

Are there other tools out there like these?

The "tools" are in the: stomach, butt & bladder of the beholder.:S
(driver and the passengers)

Also the fuel capacity of the vehicle.

Some types of vehicles generate more fatigue than others.

People are different.

Do whatever works best for you and skip the "tool" links..:W

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My Dad taught me that if you base your travel on 55 MPH it will be as pretty darn close.

wa8yxm wrote:
Gee, all those tools.. I use an average speed of 50 mph (This is right close to what I actually make with fuel stops, meal stops, pit stops and such) so 4 hours is 200 miles, 8 hours is 400 miles,,, That easy.

DITTO

In the RV, we use an average of 50 miles per hour on primary roads. That takes into account fuel and food stops.

Most I've done was back in the 1990s, going from Austin to LA in 24 hours, then from there to Vancouver in another 18 hours, only stopping to get gas and maybe a drive through or two. Once I got into BC, I got a motel room, and collapsed for two days. Not doing that again.

These days, unless I had to be at a destination, I just take it slowly. If I feel like pulling into a RV park full of shade trees that has a good review record, and it is 3:00 PM, I'll do so and get some laundry knocked out while reading a book or two, then find a local eatery and call it a night.

I would love is a phone app where you could enter a route and have it project where you would be in X amount of time. With that I could search for campgrounds or motels, food near there. If there wasn't anything I could expand the search from there.
Anyone know of one? The closest one I know of is called RoadAhead,
which gives you what's available a the next given number of exits.