Zebra24601 wrote:
> On Jun 11, 12:05 pm, "J. Clarke" wrote:
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>> He has about 2500 miles to drive, according to Garmin. He has 6
>> days to do it in. At 50 MPH that's 50 hours of on the road time.
>> Divide 50 by 6 and what do you get?
>
> Kind of a moot point, since the schedule that everyone is saying might
> be overly ambitious is the one in which he does the drive in four
> days. Divide 50 by 4 and what do you get?
Overtime.
> Can it be done? Yes. But if he does, then there's really no point in
> him asking us for sights to see along the way, because if you can't
> see it from the highway, he don't have time in his schedule to drive
> off and see them.
Still don't consider it to be ambitious. He has plenty of time for
sleep. Note that the ICC rules currently allow an 18 hour cycle--ten
driving and eight off. Four 12 hour days aren't going to kill anybody,
especially if they take a rest break in the middle. And that assumes
that one is averaging the AAA's 50 mph. For most of his trip he's going
to be on roads with a 75 mph posted limit on which traffic usually moves
closer to 80, with few cities.
Garmin Mapsource estimates 38 hours 22 minutes of driving time for the
trip, not the 50 hours that you get using AAA's average. Spread over 4
days that works out to under 10 hours a day, so he's basically doing a
full ICC shift and then taking 12 or so off instead of the 8 that the
ICC requires.
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