Sheep
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- Jun 13, 2006
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This is pretty crap advice considering large portions of his cross-country drive will be nothing but highway and farms and fields. Suppose he gets tired and is 150 miles away from the nearest civilization? I've been in this situation where all drivers were wiped out and thought I was going to die in a fiery crash before actually getting to my destination. I don't know about you but sleeping in an uncomfortable truck in a rest area won't give me quality sleep--not a good thing when you're driving a vehicle you're not familiar with and have a long drive yet to go.
As someone who's moved cross-country in trucks and vans several times, I'd say 60mph is a pretty safe average to assume, although I have been in moving trucks that couldn't handle that speed in mountainous regions. Being limited to 30-40mph on a steep interstate because your truck can't make it up a mountain SUCKS.
Open up Google Maps and set some waypoints for yourself based on how much you think you can reasonably drive in a day. Regardless of what some people here say about cramming in as much driving time as possible into one stretch, you don't want to do that--only you know what your limits are, whether it's 8, 12 or 18 hours a day. Plan for longer days at the beginning and shorter days towards the end since you WILL inevitably be tired and sick to death of driving by the end.
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