How many Hours/Miles do you Drive your bus in a day?

[Gary Hatt - Publisher BCM]

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. 

[luvrbus]

A long day for us is 300 miles or 6 hours

[edvanland]

Just depends on how I feel and where we ae going.

[Van]

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.

[Melbo]

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

[David Anderson]

For me it's around 300. Time usually doesn't matter but I figure a rolling average of 50mph

[luvrbus]

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   

[dtcerrato]

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.

[Utahclaimjumper]

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

[sledhead]

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 

[chessie4905]

This past summer, 250 to 300 miles per day.

[buswarrior]

Last night, 600 miles, but that was driving the Logging sports team from Fleming college to Dalhousie overnight.

Doesn't count.

Happy coaching!
Buswarrior

[Hal]

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.

[Sebulba]

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

[lvmci]

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...