Thread: Anyone driven Sydney to Adelaide in a day?

longest trip I have done was from Darwin to Sydney was offered a job that was much better pay, had to go via Alice Springs to hire a 4wd ute to do a 1000 K round trip to pick up my tools from a mine site, then onwards to Sydney pulling up and napping on side of road or truck stop car parks. I was starting to see things by the time I reached broken hill, I got to Parramatta pulled into a flash hotel and slept for 18 hours they did not like the look of me in reception.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

I thought the sign at the side of the road read "Sheep cure Fatigue",

That's nothing. I've got to deal with the REST IF SLEEPY signs.
I'd never get anywhere!

Originally Posted by Bushwanderer

It's sad that you no longer are.

I still am, actually. Nearly 40 years married now.

The difference is that now I'd still take 24 hours - spread over 3 days!

I might have driven from Euroa to Strathbogie once - 24.5 km...










...In eleven minutes.


And to all those who have driven that road, no, it most certainly wasn't in a LR.

If you realy must do the trip. Plan to start SY at about 2 or 3 in the morning. The bad bit is you will be hitting the Hey plain in the hottest part of the day. By the time it is getting dark and on toward midnight you will be very close to your destination. The trick is to carry water with you and I did prefer barley sugars or butterscotch to suck on and ONLY stop for fuel. Every time you stop it costs a minimum of thirty minutes. Traveling at 110 thats another 60kms down the track that you have lost. If you can do that you are makin a mile.

Silly thing, why would you want to? I love the Power Nap signs...I use that trick on my little girl when she was young. Honey go to sleep, Daddy, I'm not tired and I'm not going to sleep...OK honey, how about you have just a little nap for a little bit. OK daddy...and promptly falls asleep for eight hours

By all means, if you are tired, pull over before you swallow a tree. Even if that power nap lasts for eight hours then that is what you needed. Don't be ashamed of it.

If you are not payed to do it then do not risk it. Pull up when you are tired. That powernap may just be thirty minutes and you will feel refreshed. (well, your eyes will feel like someone has been arc welding on them and it does taste like a cockie cage but you are awake, swig of water a walk around and a leak and your away again.)

Really depends on the drivers. By myself I've done Alice to Adelaide in 15 hrs in a HQ ute and Canberra to Adel in 12 hrs on a motorbike with the only stops being for fuel and a drink. My partner on the other hand gets tired after an hour of driving...

Originally Posted by BigJon

Years ago I drove Adelaide - Sydney in one day, then Sydney - Adelaide in one day about a week later (Holden Ute).

No dramas, one driver. It isn't that far.

I have also done Darwin - Adelaide in two days (in a Subaru Brumby).

Adelaide - Brisbane in 24 hours (Holden Ute).

Adelaide - Alice Springs in one day (Range Rover, Discovery II).

Alice Springs to Adelaide in one day (Range Rover).

About 3 months ago a mate and I did Sydney to Horsham in 12 hours (almost exactly, Landcruiser 100 Series).

Same here...

Adl - Syd - 15 hours
Adl - Melbourne (for a Pizza then drove straight back to Adelaide) 8 1/2 hours each way. (1 driver in each direction)
Adl - Brisabane - 22 hours
Perth - Adelaide - 26 hours

All done solo driver...

Only the Perth-Adl trip was done via speeding

Just to add. the hardest thing to do is to drive into the night and push on to daylight. those last couple of hours before the sun starts to colour the sky is a killer.

Have done ML to BN non-stop in the car on my own in 20 hours on the speed limit. BN-DN with mongrel bikey mates in 37hours!!!!!!!in an old coaster 2l loaded with bikes guys and ****. 120 litre tank, 2x44s and away we go! BN to Mount Isa for fuel at the Shell and next stop Berimah Pub in time for the lunchtime show.

Driving walk-on-walk-off freight professionally both single driver and two-up on tour/charter and scheduled is just part of the job of makin a mile. Two-up was good if you had a good partner that didn't scare you and vis-a-vis. You could drive BN to Perth in under 70 hours with meal breaks and fuel stop. See if you can work this one out. Deluxe had a coach with first and top swapped in a spicer. At 100km/hr it would do 1200rpm (and rev to 2200! 3.5diffs) It used to get better than 9mpg which is good for a Silver350. They did use it only for economy from Perth to Adelaide.