How far do you drive max towing a camper

[rvd]

Going that far I’ve done it 3 ways.

Option 1). Me and the wife take turns and drive thru the night. My kids are pretty good road trippers and sleep most of the trip. If you try to stop around dark the kids have slept all day and are wired when you get em out of the truck when your ready to crash.

Option 2). 500 miles a day is closer to my limit if I’m traveling alone. Start early before dawn and be parked up by 3-4 pm drinking beer and unwinding. This also gets you off the road in the heat of the day when you start to run the risk of mechanical failure and blown out tires.

To each his own but that’s my 2 cents


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I prefer your option 2, I hate towing a camper in the heat of the day.

[Chief]

We have a trip booked for the end of this month in Harrison Arkansas. Map shows it to be around 564 miles and we plan on leaving early in the morning and driving straight thru. 32’ TT that weighs around 9,000lbs

This will be the furthest trip with this trailer and about the max that I want to go in one day.


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[Fordnandez]

Let me start off by saying that I hate towing anything. I am usually good for about 10 hours and then I feel like I am not being as alert as I should be.

[wsteffen]

Take the three days. We're retired and travel a lot. We generally spend 5 to 6 hours on the road including stops. It sure is a lot more relaxing. It's about 1200 miles o where we go in Florida and used to do it with just one over night stop. Forget that, at least two nights now and some times three nights. Not in any hurry, so why not enjoy the trip.

[sp-bow]

Heading out for our first 1200 mile trip with our new trailer next week. Interesting input here. Was thinking about taking 3days to get there.

[bboswell]

Pulling a camper I would break it up, in the Motorhome I’m pushing through and getting where I’m going. Big difference in having the whole family cooped up in the cab of a truck vs sprawled out napping and watching movies while you drive!

[BigL]

Thanks for the replies.

We've done it a couple it a couple of ways now. Typically I try to keep it under 500 miles each day and prefer to keep it below 400 each day. I try to stop every 150-180 miles so roughly 3 hours at a time before we stop for gas/bathroom breaks. A lot of times we'll start early and hit the road at 5am. The 3 hour drive/gas/break is around 8am. We try to find an ihop or something similar and stop so kids wake up and have breakfast. They don't realize they have been in the car for 3 hours and are usually good for 6 more hours. I like to be setting up at the next park around 2-3pm so I can have camper set up and a fire started in time to put something on the grill for dinner.

We've done it 3 different ways:
a. 2 nights / 3 days of driving. Back to back to back days
b. 1 night / 2 days of driving long distance
c. Couple of nights each stop. 1 day drive, 2 nights, 1 day drive, 2 nights, 1 day drive so take 5 days to get there.

My wife prefers b but then I do all the driving and she naps, reads, facebook, etc. while I'm driving. We tend to do a most of the time though. This time I'm planning on the way there to do a but on the way back will do an extended version of c. It could be 4-5 different stops, with 1-3 days for each stop before hitting the road again. Probably going to take 10-14 days on the return trip home checking out places along the way or detouring to other things that look interesting along the way. I bought a good wifi antenna for the camper so can work from anywhere right now, might as well make the trip enjoyable for the kids.

[BigL]

Take the three days. We're retired and travel a lot. We generally spend 5 to 6 hours on the road including stops. It sure is a lot more relaxing. It's about 1200 miles o where we go in Florida and used to do it with just one over night stop. Forget that, at least two nights now and some times three nights. Not in any hurry, so why not enjoy the trip.

Yea that's the plan. I'm not retired but I'm working remotely until the covid cases drop. Might as well get out and see the country for a little while since I'm told to work remotely until further notice. I bought an antenna and router for inside the camper. Makes it so I can work from inside the camper and pick up a good signal.

[S-3 Ranch]

I leave about 0500/0530 From boerne, drive till 0800/0830 take a hour break, then drive till about lunchtime, check my tires and hubs every 100-150 miles stretch , 8-10 hour drive then finish up the next day
12 hour drive per day is max as a driver for me

[rvd]

Yea that's the plan. I'm not retired but I'm working remotely until the covid cases drop. Might as well get out and see the country for a little while since I'm told to work remotely until further notice. I bought an antenna and router for inside the camper. Makes it so I can work from inside the camper and pick up a good signal.

Are you saying an antennae for a hotspot or something else?

[rvd]

We have a trip booked for the end of this month in Harrison Arkansas. Map shows it to be around 564 miles and we plan on leaving early in the morning and driving straight thru. 32’ TT that weighs around 9,000lbs

This will be the furthest trip with this trailer and about the max that I want to go in one day.


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I’ve made that trip several times with a camper, not a bad one day trip but about my limit. We usually leave about 4 am.

[rferg84]

Max with kids in the backseat is 6-7 hours.

We did Pueblo to Jackson Hole last month as the second day to get there and honestly it wAs 10+ and it was rough.

[gatorgrizz27]

Used to drive back and forth from TX to FL pretty regularly, it was right at 1000 miles, towing a good bit of the time.

If you don’t typically go to bed early, the best thing I found was to leave around 5 and drive until I got too tired, usually around 1 or 2 in the morning. This puts a big dent in the trip without wasting a day, and shouldn’t be too miserable with kids.

I’d wake up at sunrise and knock the rest of the trip out, I feel fine on 4 hours of sleep until at least late in the afternoon. With kids I’d probably just ride until they got cranky, then stop for an hour at breakfast, let them run around, etc. Hopedully by the time they wake up from afternoon naps you’d be getting close.

There’s no reason to push too hard, but I find anything over 5-6 hours in the car just as miserable as 8+, so I’d rather suffer for fewer days.

[WItoTX]

Going to be towing a camper 1200+ miles soon. No rush to get there. Would you split it in 2 days or 3?

Family of 5 +1 dog in truck. Youngest is 5.

Just did it. Drove 1300 miles in 1.5 days. Got a hotel half way just to crash. Wife and kid flew up once I got here.

For me, caffeine and water is all I need.

[Mister Sir]

Just a follow up question. If you leave Friday evening and drive till 1-2am where do you park your rig-trailer to catch 3-5 hours sleep before you get up and start at 6-8am? Asking for a friend.