On average how long does it take you to drive 500 miles

This is a tough question. How many Kentuckians are along the route?

 

How many bars of cellphone signal on the route?

 

Only if you drive for Prime Inc.

 

I did 501 this morning tx to mo before with 14 min left b4 8 hour break was due. Interstate 65 mph truck

 

You can just figure it.
65mph and you can easily average 60mph.
Doing 72to73 on cruise you can average 70 if you stay on it hard.
I recently did 742 miles in one day. I got a stupid image in my mind. Dispatcher saying: He can’t do that!
Knarly mechanic telling him: He just did. Har har har.

 

Slowing down and slouching. I now call it “Prime Time”

 

Its going to vary according to how flat the country side you driving in as apposed to hilly and mountainous country like to the west in Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington, Oregon, and California, or flat like in Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas, Ohio, Iowa where the state truck speeds limits are at least 65 mph + you could set your cruise control on 69 mph and just fly along. So 7 -8 hours is quite possible if you just do a splash and dash fuel stop. If your driving in some of the states that have legal truck speeds of only 55 mph its going to take between 9 - 10 hours. If you could sit on 55 for 10 hours that should get you 550 miles in theory but that never ever happens as there are always hills, slow moving traffic, road works, fuel stops, and other unknown hold ups. So driving from LA to Seattle on the I - 5 is going to take quite a while huh?

 

On average on the Interstate 9 hours including the break. Start messing around with US and state highways then who knows, depends on the traffic. Could be more than 12 hours if you hit too many cities during the day.

 

Always picking on the good folks from Kentucky. Why?

 

It depends on the company. Prime governs their trucks so you can only do 50 mph. While most carriers (when I was driving in 2008) limited their trucks to 62. Then the other question is are you asking an owner operator whom might be driving at 80mph.