Dunno, some people are just like that. Every year I go to the NY Ren Faire with my best friend and her parents and we always come back the same day. And every year her dad insists on doing all of the driving, from New Hampshire to New York. That’s ten hours of driving in a day. She and I have stopped offering to drive, though occasionally her mother convinces him to let her drive for a couple of hours.
My thoughts exactly. Someone wanting to do all the driving on a long trip is the polar opposite of a problem, as far as I’m concerned.
I’m gonna want to do all the talkin’.
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Go for it!
OP, you really need to come back after your chat with them and tell us what his motivation turned out to be. I’m dying to know now.
On long road trips with my wife I do at least 90%, if not 100%, of the driving if I can help it. I just don’t like the way she drives. Whenever I ride with her it seems like she’s determined to do anything except drive.
Sorry, doubt there will be ay chat.
Dtr and kid are coming over for lunch today. We’ll probly tell her we bought our tickets, but no plans to make it into a discussion. Don’t know what their plans will be.
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14 hours is way too long for a single driver, even assuming two meal stops.
14h of Din a MV . . .
What do you consider OK? I used to drive Pittsburgh to Hilton Head, stopping only for gas (food in a cooler) in 11 hours. It wasn’t bad other than West Virginia’s mountains. When I lived in Philly, I drove (on three or four occasions) to Pittsburgh for a job interview and lunch, then drove back. That was ten hours of driving in one day and wasn’t bad at all.
And for me, Yeah, there’s no way I’d let someone drive 14 hours straight if I didn’t know ahead of time if they were the type of people I knew ahead of time that I could spend 14 hours in a car with. Not only that, but if you’re renting a van, then the person who rents the van is in charge of who drives. Right?
no way I’d chance 14 hours in a car with a control freak.
In the EU (lorry) drivers can drive 4,5 hours straight, then need to rest. They can drive a total of 9 hours per day. I would absolutely not get in a car with anyone driving more than that. Driving drowsy is like driving drunk. Why would you even trust someone who plans on doing that, it’s like trusting someone who plans in advance to drink & drive.
That was my thought. I find it’s a little unlikely he would be quite so assertive with his father-in-law who’s paying for the rental.
That’s probably how it was intended soooo…
I took it as the SIL doesn’t like his driving and if his kid is in the car, the SIL will insist on doing all the driving.
In his OP, he said:
So, unless his daughter thinks that the OP is a bad driver, and has told her husband that, it’s probably not the reason why.