How many hours can you drive without rest?

[Wduaqnug]

Some people can drive from NY to Miami without rest, unbelievable

 

[anxi80]

i dont get tired while driving. i cant fall asleep sitting up. i have to be physically lying down to fall asleep. and that even takes time. insomnia...

 

[MacBaine]

Chicago => Florida. About 20 hours, no biggie if you got a case of Mt. Dew

 

[Ladies Man]

16 is my max so far

 

[T2T III]

You must mean without "sleep." Driving between NY and Miami will require several stops for gas - and maybe a bit of food. That would be a "rest."

The most I could drive in one day would be 10 -11 hours @ 70 M.P.H.

 

[boyRacer]

If i start early after a good night's sleep i'll probably last the whole day since i'm a driving freak ... but i'll have a numb ass... and as long as there was no traffic... if it was traffic though... i'll probably last an hour... :|

 

[Anubis]

15 hours. PS to St louis

i could have done more. as long as i stup to get gas when teh tank is empty im fine

 

[Wduaqnug]

stopping at gas station is no rest for me

 

[Zebo]

I got you'all beat

Pensacola FL to Costa Mesa Ca-on a Yamaha VMAX in 91' pissed blood cuz kidneys hemmoraged, no biggie at 20 though

<--should have been a truck driver but they limit you to 8 hours now

 

[KGB1]

Originally posted by: Wduaqnug
Some people can drive from NY to Miami without rest, unbelievable

I drove from NYC - Toronto - Montreal - Quebec. 18 hours (3 stopsfor gasoline and no CAFFIENE in Canada)
I drove from NYC - Mrytle Beach... non stop (including gasoline)

 

[CrazyDe1]

I've driven 14 hours on no sleep the night before...but when you're drivin 105 and switching lanes a bit adrenaline takes over and you dont' really get tired..

 

[skippapotamus]

I can do about six hours. Never done more than four overnight, and usually after a full night of playing a club, when I'm just @ss tired.
My father used to drive us from NY to Florida for holidays. He said it was 23 hours. I dunno, I was young and I slept anyway.

 

[optoman]

Orlando to Chicago (Northwest corner) 17.5 hours. Longest trip
Rochester, NY to Chicago (Northwest corner) 8 hours. Fastest average.

 

[Ronstang]

In late October I drove from Orlando to Houston straight through....and in two weeks I will bw driving from Miami to Houston straight through.....as long as there is a working radio in the car I can go at least 20-24 hours.

 

[Bushwicktrini]

I did 14 before but towards then end I was dogging it I was glad when I stopped Brooklyn,NY - Banner Elk, NC

 

[Jmmsbnd007]

Well... if I stay up full nights at LAN parties, sometimes getting no caffeine... I think I could handle some long driving But I'd need to stop at a gas station and relax my ass a bit, hehe

 

[Squisher]

Drove from Detroit to Tampa in 18 hrs. when I was 18.

Now, even after 6 hours in the sun I'm still beige.

 

[Brutuskend]

Some people can drive from NY to Miami without rest, unbelievable

Sure! You ever see "Vanishing Point"?

Of course he had some "Help" that came out of a little bottle.

I drove from Oregon to Missouri in about 2 1/4 days back in Aug.

 

[Queasy]

Longest I had to do was from Tuscaloosa, AL to Corpus Christi Tx in about 14 hours. Drive home from college. By about the third time I had to make that drive, I cut it down to 12 and a half hours.

Now, I'm lucky if I can drive for more than 6 hours straight. I just get too freacking sleepy at the wheel. Hell, I have fallen asleep at traffic lights on my way to work in the morning.

 

[godmare]

I dunno.. I'm usually that ass that falls asleep for a few miles. Drifts in and out of lanes, but is then jolted to conscoiusness by either a semi-truck tire or those bumps in the shoulder.

 

[cressida]

texas to california 23 hours or something ... my uncle drove non stop, just got gas and kept going.

 

[ScottyB]

I drove 14 a few times.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Current record is 16 hours. Left at 07:00 and got home at 23:00. That was driving from Campton, NH to Toledo OH, a little over 800 miles. Later versions of that same trip knocked 2 to 3 hours off the time (mainly by travelling in a car with a longer cruising range and with people who had larger bladders).

ZV

 

[Packy]

I'll drive up to 8 hours, but after that I just don't feel safe doing it, even if I feel like I'm fine. I've gone from Eugene, OR to Anacortez, WA (8 hrs)... it's a boring, straight drive up I-5 though, so that doesn't help!

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: SoloKid
texas to california 23 hours or something ... my uncle drove non stop, just got gas and kept going.

Uh, so then YOU drove 0 hours w/o rest?


I've done 16. Boulder, CO to some hotel in western Kentucky. Next day I drove to West Palm Beach, FL. The previous day I had done LV, NV to Boulder.