Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks?

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Does a "10 hour drive" include breaks? - Lemmy.world

The American way of expressing distances by drive time - what does that include?

American here that does long haul drives rather frequently for dog shows…

When I give a time, it’s without breaks. “10 hours to the Fairgrounds” - 10 hours of straight driving with no problems.

I tell folks new to my methodology to anticipate around an hour of variance for every twelve hours, as I typically must stop 2x for gas at least. (My tank holds 400 miles / 12 gallons, and I try not to let it drop below 50 / 1.5 gallons.)

For the dog shows, I’ve got a varying number of dogs with me (8 was my max, 2-4 pretty common) and pottying them takes forever.

Which character from Best in Show would you be?
None! I haven’t actually watched it 😅 It does amuse me that it exists, but I spend waaaaay too much time training dogs to actually watch a movie about it.