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5/2/10 How far have you driven in a day.
- Thread starter bighawg
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bighawg
Proud Rider of the Short Bus
Glad top see someone else dedicated to making good time. My family hates traveling with me. ):h
jcool
#78 A(ACLU) FNG
cross country. four times.
Turbine Doc
Just Another Diesel Guy
Young & dumb, with a new Merc. Cougar back in 86 Pascagoula Ms, Norfolk Va to parents "low altitude flying" 1000 ish miles in 12 hrs 14-16 depending who is with me is normal time driving responsibly.
8-10 hrs driving now at mostly legal limit, is my comfort driving zone, I'll push to 12 if I need to be somewhere and I wasn't tired to begin with, after 12 anymore for me is risky I need a relief driver or check into a hotel for some rest, may not be macho to take it easy.
A near death experience in Italy driving tired when a semi I misjudged from being over tired; his speed, and my ability to accelerate from a stop, getting T boned @ 70 mph right behind driver door made me realize it's not worth it to push the sane limits.
Macho don't mean too much laying in a hospital bed thankful to be alive but praying at the same time to not be crippled for life, thankfully it was just me that was injured had that driver been killed or collateral damage in a pile up killing/crippling another, I don't think I could have lived with the guilt.
I am alive today due to seat belts, and God's grace that I need to share this story, even if it saves just 1 life.
If you have not yet gotten a GPS get one, one thing I have learned from it's use pretty much with traffic flow speeding might save 5-10 minutes at most for any trip, if just you on the highway yes you can save time though it's not often when it's just you though.
8-10 hrs driving now at mostly legal limit, is my comfort driving zone, I'll push to 12 if I need to be somewhere and I wasn't tired to begin with, after 12 anymore for me is risky I need a relief driver or check into a hotel for some rest, may not be macho to take it easy.
A near death experience in Italy driving tired when a semi I misjudged from being over tired; his speed, and my ability to accelerate from a stop, getting T boned @ 70 mph right behind driver door made me realize it's not worth it to push the sane limits.
Macho don't mean too much laying in a hospital bed thankful to be alive but praying at the same time to not be crippled for life, thankfully it was just me that was injured had that driver been killed or collateral damage in a pile up killing/crippling another, I don't think I could have lived with the guilt.
I am alive today due to seat belts, and God's grace that I need to share this story, even if it saves just 1 life.
If you have not yet gotten a GPS get one, one thing I have learned from it's use pretty much with traffic flow speeding might save 5-10 minutes at most for any trip, if just you on the highway yes you can save time though it's not often when it's just you though.
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I use to drive from Fort Bragg to Dallas Texas only stopping for fuel every 4 day weekend, this was leaving on Thursday after work and driving back Monday.
Me and my Brother drove non stop from Alaska to Texas. It took 5 days, we traded out driving. It was a long drive.
Me and my Brother drove non stop from Alaska to Texas. It took 5 days, we traded out driving. It was a long drive.
Turbine Doc
Just Another Diesel Guy
The whole of Texas is a long drive, imagine my surprise 1st time I entered Texas after driving across Ms & La to bound for San Antonio/New Braunfels and 1st mile marker showed it was 880-ish miles to the other side of Texas. Got to New Braunfelds (Schlitterbans) and could not find a room so we opted to carry on to Laredo (wife wanted my son to visit Mexico) it was just another 200 miles, felt like 2000 miles after being in a mini-van all day. Man is Texas one big ass state, or if it look like civilization is about to end it probably, if maps or signs say get fuel now, get it once you get past some points ain't nothing around but cactus.
We take driving distance for granted here, it is a given, when I was in Italy putting in power plants, they were blown away to hear I would drive "all across Italy" to be at one site or another in a days time or less, IIRC longest distance I drove in Italy was 12-13 hours apart from the north Milan to south just above Naples. Italian travel is a "event" they drive for about 2 hours then stop for "a coffee" picnic lunch, pack up drive another 2 and do all over again, OTR drivers aren't much different always stopping, nothing moves fast in Italy and many places in Europe.
We take driving distance for granted here, it is a given, when I was in Italy putting in power plants, they were blown away to hear I would drive "all across Italy" to be at one site or another in a days time or less, IIRC longest distance I drove in Italy was 12-13 hours apart from the north Milan to south just above Naples. Italian travel is a "event" they drive for about 2 hours then stop for "a coffee" picnic lunch, pack up drive another 2 and do all over again, OTR drivers aren't much different always stopping, nothing moves fast in Italy and many places in Europe.