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01-28-2025, 11:45 AM
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How far do you drive in a day?

New member here. My husband and I are planning an epic road trip for my upcoming retirement from Delaware to Alaska. I've been using the RV Trip Planner app which leads me to my question for the group.
Part of setting up the app is entering your minimum, middle, and maximum daily driving distances. It's my husband's opinion that it's not worth moving the RV unless you're going to drive at least 100 miles. He also thinks that it's reasonable to drive 500 miles in a day.
Do you have any driving distance guidelines that you keep in mind when planning a road trip?
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01-28-2025, 12:06 PM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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Location: On the continental divide
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2M,
When we do our annual round robin, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, SD, home, spring trip, I never plan by milage. I always plan by hours. The old bladder is good for about 4 hours, so using 50MPH for planning that's about 200 miles.
Plus, takes a while to fuel up, both us and the coach. We usually stealth camp so we don't have to drive like crazy to make a reserved spot at some park. We tend to "wander" so some days we do 400 miles, but if we see an attraction sign that looks interesting, we may only do 100 miles, who knows. Wandering is code for vacation.
Mike in Colorado
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01-28-2025, 12:27 PM
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Junior Member
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Welcome to the board. If you do a search there many posts asking the same question
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01-28-2025, 01:14 PM
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We figure on an average of 50mph travel time accounting for bio breaks, rest breaks, fuel stop(s). We also plan for between 200 - 250 miles a day. Going 500 miles a day, may equate to 9-10 hours of RV driving. Many do it, but unless you have to be somewhere in a hurry - Why? Relax and enjoy the drive.
The type of RV you have can influence the amount of time you want your butt in the seats.
A Class A diesel MH, as an example, has a much nicer, less stressful ride than a Class A gasser. What do you have? We just downsized from a 30' gasser class A to a 29' class c and after a few tweaks, has a nicer ride than the old unit so we may adjust our travel limits, but not by much.
We like getting up late vs crack of dawn, stopping somewhere for a lunch, getting to our next stop mid afternoon and not be all beat up from the ride. Just us, others will have different plans.
Good travels and enjoy the ride.
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01-28-2025, 01:29 PM
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Tiffin Owners Club
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Location: DFW, Texas
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When I plan a trip, I'll always do 500+ miles the first day because we are revved up to go. For me, that's 8-9 hours driving. After that, I try to limit it to 200-300 miles per day plus or minus.
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01-28-2025, 01:39 PM
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We do it by hours not miles. Break camp by 1000 AM and want to be pulling into the next location by 430-500 PM. This means we don't get up too early, and have plenty of time to set-up before the sun goes down. Even if we run into traffic, we have time to set-up in daylight.
Like posters above we average 50 MPH on most interstates, including stops for fuel and to stretch the legs. So our average distance is 300-350 miles.
I have done 14 hours straight, but wouldn't recommend it. We were outrunning severe weather.
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01-28-2025, 01:51 PM
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Generally no more than 300-350 miles and often much less. Depends on the roads too. If it's mostly interstates we can go farther. When it's mostly 2 lane roads we usually don't go as far.
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01-28-2025, 02:22 PM
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Monaco Owners Club
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I’ll do up to 10 hours of driving a day. My coach is very comfortable, stable, quiet, and I’m only 43 so why not
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01-28-2025, 02:43 PM
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A lot of factors. How "Fatiguing" is your rig to drive? My first one wandered so much, after a few hrs I was ready to switch drivers. Second rig, much easier, this one really comfortable but now I tend to have to relieve the bladder more often. Also, now driving at night tend to be more fatiguing, so I try to stop sooner. Interstates vs US routes or others affects miles per day GREATLY!
Just went from West Coast to East Coast & back, if I could get my DW & the dog going at a reasonable time in the morning, say an hr or so after sunup, & we're mostly interstate, 400-500 miles was fine. Stopped before it got dark no problem. Of coarse, it was over the holidays so days are shorter.
I personally would rather drive a little longer to get somewhere & be able to BE somewhere for more days than to have to setup/breakdown more times getting there.
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01-28-2025, 02:55 PM
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If I can do a year with no driver over 250 miles, it would be wonderful.
Haven't made it yet. But have stayed under 300 twice.
My worst drive was 686 in one day, followed a bit over 420 the next day. I should have left the RV near Detroit and flown to my baby sister's funeral.
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I'm with Flyer15015 above. Never saw an RV with a fuel tank smaller than my bladder. That determines pit stops.
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01-28-2025, 03:14 PM
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300 miles or arrive at stop by 3:00pm to enjoy the spot you’re at.
It’s not a race. Enjoy the trip and the experience.
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2018 Sunseeker 2430S-CD carried by a 2017 Ford E450
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01-28-2025, 03:58 PM
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For me ~ 6.5 hrs /400 mi.
Like others said, YMMV depending on what type of rig.
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01-28-2025, 04:05 PM
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Location: Moline, IL
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I too use RV Trip Wizard. I set the middle range ring to 300 miles, my preferred distance.
One other tip, don't use the Classic Range Rings, which are circular. I use the Advanced ones that account for road distances and speeds
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01-28-2025, 04:14 PM
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This response includes a key factor; age. I bought our first motorhome when I was 39, and thought nothing of driving 6/700 miles a day. I'm still driving a motorhome at age 86, but find that around 250 miles makes a nice travel day. Of course we are all different and age alone doesn't define driving endurance, but it is certainly a factor, as is physical condition; will you still be alert at the end of XXX miles?. Another factor could by why you are traveling; is it just to make miles to reach a destination, or to enjoy things along the way?
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Originally Posted by Dieselboy
I’ll do up to 10 hours of driving a day. My coach is very comfortable, stable, quiet, and I’m only 43 so why not 
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