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Old 12-17-2014, 12:46 AM   #41
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Old 12-17-2014, 12:54 AM   #42
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Mission BC to Yellowknife NWT and back 7400 km in 4 weeks this year.
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Old 12-17-2014, 08:26 AM   #43
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Delivering for Jayco, we received a bonus for at least 5,000 delivery miles a month. That's a real incentive to deliver a trailer, get back ASAP, and deliver another one. We did this as often as possible (without going crazy).

Our truck had almost 300,000 miles when we stopped delivering trailers, so I'd estimate 140,000 miles towing other people's trailers (and 140,000 miles getting back to deliver another one!). At least 90% of those were mid-sized travel trailers.

The longest single trip was a delivery from Middlebury, IN to St. Johns, Newfoundland about 2,300 miles... we made two of those deliveries! Almost as long (2,100 miles) were deliveries from Middlebury, IN to San Diego, CA... made several of those.
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Old 12-17-2014, 09:49 AM   #44
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For many years now, we have gone to Yellowstone or Glacier for our big summer trip. Before we moved to the Greyhawk, we had a little Skyline trailer. Generally I would break up the 1100 mile trip into two days on the way there. But on the way back, I develop get-home-itis and drive straight through. So the longest single day of towing for us would be 1100 miles at 20-21 hours.
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Old 12-17-2014, 12:00 PM   #45
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I guess I'm the complete rookie in this thread. I towed my Designer a little over 5,000 miles total since new and my longest one way trip so far is the one I'm on right now. I am in Hudson, FL right after a trip from my home base in central Alabama. It is 481 miles one way. Three days from now I'm going to Kissimmee, FL to meet the rest of the family for Christmas with Mickey. Then 560 miles back to central Alabama after Christmas so this trip total will be approx 1,100 miles counting the 90 miles from here to Kissimmee.
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I'll answer this thread next summer. One of the main reasons for getting a toy hauler was to make it to Fairbanks from NYC and then ride up to Prudoe bay on the Dalton highway. (Pipeline road) To the Arctic ocean. Why? I dunno, cause its there I guess.
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I'll answer this thread next summer. One of the main reasons for getting a toy hauler was to make it to Fairbanks from NYC and then ride up to Prudoe bay on the Dalton highway. (Pipeline road) To the Arctic ocean. Why? I dunno, cause its there I guess.
My kind of trip.
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Old 12-17-2014, 07:40 PM   #48
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Did some long hauls when I did RVs commercially. Since getting my car hauler longest trip was 12000 kms / 7450 miles in 13 days.
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Old 12-17-2014, 09:39 PM   #49
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Just went from southern Louisiana to North Dakota (1850 miles) in 44 hours, good thing it was windy and the roads were icy.
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I once towed a trailer all over the sands of Iraq but I'm thinking that isn't what you were asking
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Old 12-17-2014, 11:14 PM   #51
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Farthest towing distance from home -- 3,200 kms then return the same distance.
Total towing distance with our 2013 JayFlight in 2 seasons -- 17,050 kms.
Longest single day of towing -- about 750 kms. Usually do about 500 to 600 in a day.
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I'll answer this thread next summer. One of the main reasons for getting a toy hauler was to make it to Fairbanks from NYC and then ride up to Prudoe bay on the Dalton highway. (Pipeline road) To the Arctic ocean. Why? I dunno, cause its there I guess.
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Nothing meant by it, but I think I have an observation. The younger crowd here drives a lot more miles a day than I do. I could, but why? My limit is 250-300 miles or maybe less if I want.
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Old 12-18-2014, 07:48 AM   #54
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We find 300-350 a day is a good fit for us. It lets me keep to around 62 mph and gets us in early enough to get set up and still have time to relax and have a nice dinner. If I were forced to do longer days, I would but I'm not so this works well for us.
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Old 12-18-2014, 08:03 AM   #55
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A Very long way

We Towed from Here ( Alvin Texas) To Bismarck ND and back 1400 each way did there in 2 days yes Five hour energy drink ! .. Thats the longest tow we did at one time .went to visit my Mother in Law , she kept the house to hot i slept in the RV ,,,,
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Old 12-18-2014, 05:32 PM   #56
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to Ketchum, ID (Sun Valley)
returning to Phoenix

And it was still hot.
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Old 12-20-2014, 11:19 PM   #57
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Farthest with my trailer was Dayton, OH to Navarre Fl. 776 miles one way straight through.... Longest drive ever was coming back from our honeymoon. Port of Miami to Dayton OH, 1176 miles straight through. That one kind of sucked a little.
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Old 12-20-2014, 11:37 PM   #58
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Summer of 2013 we towed to Whitehorse from east of Regina, about 1800 miles one way, and back. Last summer, 2014, we towed to Yellowknife, about 1500 miles and back.

We enjoyed both trips so much that we are talking about doing one or the other or both this coming summer.
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From NH down to VA, crossed TN into Ark, up to Missouri, back down to Louisiana, over to Biloxi Miss, Mobile Ala, across Florida, up to Charlotte NC and back to NH. We were gone for about one month and travelled about 5K miles. Pulling a Whitehawk 24RKS with a Ram 1500. Like most people who posted we usually limit ourselves to about 400 miles per day.
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Did 13,000 miles, all in the west a few years back.
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