Website or app for planning a long drive?

robinb

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Back in the day, I had the program on my PC that allowed me to enter a starting location, an ending location, starting time, ending times, breaks, overnight stops, etc. I googled but my Google Fu is lacking. I can't find anything like that online!

I'd like to plan a drive, say that I'm leaving from point A at 10:00 am, get to point B and take an X minute break, continue onto point C and have the app/website figure out when I'll be there. Online or Apple apps are both OK. Does anyone know of something like this? It seems like a no-brainer since I had a program that did it 15-20 years ago!

ETA: The program was called "Streets and Trips".
 
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I've looked for that, too, without success. I'd be happy if it would simply tell me where I can expect to be on the trip after, say, 8 hours of driving. None of the major map sites even show elapsed time from the start of the trip.

The only way I've found is to use Google Maps and keep moving the destination up and down the route until I get the trip length where I want it to be.

I think AAA used to show times in their online TripTik, but I haven't been a member for years, so I don't know whether they still do.
 
Microsoft Streets & Trips is still available from resellers, but it has been discontinued by Microsoft. I used one of the first versions many years ago myself.

I end up using Google Maps and just figuring everything out manually.
 
I use the Waze app. It will calculate the time between stops in real time, but I don't think it lets you plan ahead of time.
 

Mapquest lets you add stops and tells you how long the drive would take but you can't put a beginning and ending time in.
 
Thanks everyone. I googled "Streets and Trips substitute" and the only things that popped up were really expensive apps for sales people. I use and love Waze when I drive, but I was looking for something to help me PLAN. I wouldn't even care if I had to pay a little for it but not hundreds of dollars!

I found a website called roadtrippers.com which allows me to at least put dates in and then it will show me interesting things on the route and hotels at my overnight stays.
 


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