I am curious how many miles you drive your bus in a day when traveling. I think many people may be interested in this, especially Newbies.
If I do not have to get somewhere quickly, I tend to take my time and drive about 4-5 hours each day and cover as many miles as it takes.
Because I have to work on BCM pretty much every day, 7 days per week for at least 4-6 hours per day, I can only travel half of most days.
A long day for us is 300 miles or 6 hours
Just depends on how I feel and where we ae going.
Being retired now I prefer to drive an easy day of 400 mi but have been known to pull enough miles to make an ELD melt down, boy those double overdrive dollars were great but required mucho recoup time. ;D
Like you Gary we work most days while on the road. We try to wrap up all the work and look to be on the road about ten. We always park long before dark so that means four in the afternoon to be arriving at some kind of stopping point. We are not fond of the interstates unless they make the drive a lot easier. In the midwest you can wander the back roads. So the question of how many miles a day is dependent upon the road you choose. Six hours MAX for us give or take twenty minutes. Some days it is only three or four hours.
Mel and Billie
For me it's around 300. Time usually doesn't matter but I figure a rolling average of 50mph
I ran with Sonnie Gray for years that guy wanted to run 18 hours a day and it would piss him off when I would stop about 3 o'clock and fuel up then shut down.My other running mates Nelson Majors and Jim Smith were never in a hurry,Nelson would stop about 1 for a nap then go another 50 miles and shut down for the night.Jim was not a early riser if we were on the road by 10am we were lucky then he would stop at every Ice Cream shop on the trip plus all the museums along the way lol 150 to 200 miles a day was good for him.Sonja gave me a hard time when I would drive for 8 or 10 hrs and it is not worth it lol :^ she complains about 300 miles a day
When coming South from an Alaska autumn (early to mid Sept.) we milk it to avoid getting into the heat - as low as 50 miles/day but normally try 300 mile day but have been pressed to scalp 600 miles in a day.
I like to average 300 at about 50-55 MPH average,, I try to keep the allison in 6th gear even when in California towing and that takes 61 MPH,, my set speed is 67 to stay with traffic.. I used to rip off the trip from my place to Quartzsite in one day (420 Mi.) Now that I no longer work or need to conserve time we make that two days,,, because we can..>>>Dan
when driving south each year in late december some days 850- 900 miles only to get as far south as we can before we stop for the night
always have as what else do you do with the time at that time of the year when it is coooooold out
This past summer, 250 to 300 miles per day.
Last night, 600 miles, but that was driving the Logging sports team from Fleming college to Dalhousie overnight.
Doesn't count.
Happy coaching!
Buswarrior
While still working for a living I did many a 1000 mile runs but since 'retiring' I really try to keep the distance down,,,, but old ways are hard to change. 600 miles is a long day now but only when there is old familiar ground to cover. We did rte 66 a couple of years ago and took 6 weeks to go 1400 miles so I guess we have slowed abit.
Hello,
Most of our life when traveling we have always had to be somewhere and no time to see anything along the way. we would always say "Sometime we need to stop and see that" and rarely did.
This is one thing that attracted us to this lifestyle.
We try not to travel by interstate and drive only about 4 hours a day, max.
Seb
My trips are usually to specific places to reach. Nickys relatives lived in Boulder CO, from Las Vegas, NV. Stopping in Flagstaff area 300 miles, Las Vegas NM 450, then Boulder CO 350. The desert and mountain west has a lot of mountain passes to climb, slowing things down a lot. My Max is 500 miles, Minimum is 300 a day.
When I went to Bliythsville AR for the antique bus getogether, flat land is alot easier to do 500 miles...
Usually 250 to 300 a day, depending on where a convenient place to stop is. Rarely ever stop at RV parks. Usually rest stops, or wide spots in rural America when not on interstates.
250 to 300 miles per day for a few days or a week and then we pull in somewhere we want to explore for a few months or a year or two. LOL
I'll drive most of the day because I still enjoy it. When solo I just pull off at a Walmart or Cabela's if I can find one before dark. When Rita is with me, we stop earlier at a campground. She prefers them and likes the free wifi for her real estate business. Since we are paying for a campground we stop earlier and walk around it with the dogs and just have some quality us time. No phones, computers, TV.
Maybe it is just me getting older, but the damn oncoming Halogen's are really tough on my eyes. I just find them to be really harsh. We usually don't have to be somewhere so I just shut down (even if I'm solo) before the sun goes down and don't put up with them.
We went to them because they are brighter, don't fail, cheaper, save the planet? What. What did I miss?
Try the yellow lenses. Really helps, when you need to drive after dark.
Speaking of LED lights. I drive a truck and this time of year the first hour or two in the morning and again at night is in the dark. I too am bothered by the LED head lights. Especially the after market ones. I don't have patience or sympathy so I switch my high beams on them. The worst are the light bars some a** holes have on their grills. They can see three miles ahead, but the rest of us are blind... Illegal AF but the cops don't enforce it. When I drive the motor home, we quit before dark.
The new Chevy pickups have LED headlamps that you can see up a nat's @$# a mile away and the frignn tail lamp will blind you
Thanks Chessie.
My FAL has to get shots in his eyes and the doc gave him pretty fancy (and expensive!) wrap around yellow lenses that are big enough for Roy Orbison to wear. It lets him wear them over his prescription glasses. He has 3 sets so I tried one driving the bus during the day. They were great but a little bulky on the head. I will put those back in the bus in the pouch next to my left knee and remember your tip if it gets dark!
Sorry about thread drift Gary, but I guess it has something to do with how long we drive since it is a limiting factor for me. I do like to drive most of the day. To be honest, even if the halogens were not the demon they are, I am usually ready to shut down, eat something, shower and just rest after a day on the road. It is also nice to look at the engine and maybe under the bus before it gets dark.
You can get a nicer fitting set at Walmart or outdoor, hunting stores also.
echo most. 300 max is average while in route. just takes time to get going, do all stuff stowed, pre-checks, fluid top offs, etc, then get situated well before dark to deal with the often unexpected, and end with smiles rather than frowns. If needing to make distance, the bus has made 500+ legs but only if required.
0 because the moron refurbishers still havent completed it and it's STILL being refurbished :-(
Gary -
Unless I have to be somewhere by a certain time, I usually just do 4-5 hrs max. Even if on a time crunch, I will rarely do more than six hours, definitely stopping before dark.
Doesn't seem to matter if I drive 55, 60, 65, or 70, I still end up averaging 50 mph, so that's the number I tend to use for planning on where to stop for the night.
FWIW & HTH. . . ;)
RJ
I enjoy driving and especially night driving. Just don't like messing w/ rush hour in the big cities. For us, 6-7 hrs is an easy day. Been double that many a trip when there are far distances to go- and we usually try to be at our campsite or place w/ good signal during workdays so I can be on the clock. I should add - no complaints if we only have to go a couple hours though!! It's just fun to drive - & take rest when we need it. ;D
Kind Regards, Phil
My longest distance in my old '68 GMC transit was about 475 miles from Yakima WA to Twin Falls Idaho. We had my wife and I, our 2 small children, our sister and brother-in-laws and their 3 small children. One thing about it, when you're the driver (I always do all the driving), you always have a place to sit and something to concentrate on besides all of them! We eventually ended up in Utah and visited my wife's brother and his 5 kids. Needless to say, we ended up heading home a few days earlier than planned. 8)