Thanksgiving Travel & Pick Up Distance

Are you traveling for Thanksgiving? Dangerous Dave talks about the best times to travel for the holiday. Plus, how far would you go to pick up someone for the holidays? Average person would go 172 miles.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is deuber in the den with dangerous day Triple I.
Experts expect a record number of Americans traveling for Thanksgiving
this year. Here's when you don't want to hit the
road now for us around here, Grand Forks, He's Grand Forks, Crookston,
Deep River Falls. Even in Fargo area, probably not going
to be as bad as some of the bigger, more
congested areas of the US. Seventy three point three million

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people driving, six million flying a two point five million
taking buses, trains or other modes of transportation. Expecting eighty
two million people to head out this year. That's up
from eighty million last year. Worst days to leave well,
depends upon where you're heading. In general. The worst times
Tuesday from noon to nine pm, Wednesday from eleven am
to eight pm, and the worst times to be heading

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home Sunday November thirtieth at eleven am to eight pm,
and Monday, December first, from noon to eight pm. Monday
is rough though, because it's got regular commuter traffic on
top of it. Best day to drive is next Thursday,
of course, not a lot of traffic Thanksgiving itself. If
you're renting a car to make the drive Hurt says
next Wednesday will be the busiest day for vehicle pickups.

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Good news, domestic car rental rates are supposed to be
down fifteen percent compared to last year. Drivers can expect
gas prices similar to last Thanksgiving, when the national average
shows three h six per gallon. So I hope you
have a good Turkey day and you get where you
need to go deeper in the two You know, for
some people it's a quick drive to meet up with
family and friends for Thanksgiving, but for others much longer

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travel time. According to a new survey, the average person
willing to drive one hundred and seventy two miles out
of their way to pick up a loved one. You know,
that's roughly three hour drive on the highway. Super sweet.
If you're picking up a boyfriend or a girlfriend, or
a parent or maybe a best friend, you know, it's
damn near heroic. I'm thinking though, if you're picking up
the in laws anyway, five percent of people would be

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willing to drive seven hundred miles, which is a major trip.
That's basically the distance between New York and Chicago. On average.
Farthest people will ever drive will be somewhere between four
hundred and eight miles. It's like the distance between Minneapolis
to Chicago. Overall, drivers are expecting to spend thirteen hours
behind the wheel this holiday season. Eleven percent said they
could log over thirty hours in their car. Fifty seven

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percent of Americans are generally okay with that because they
say they love the sense of adventure the road trip offers. Yeah,
the sense of adventure the road trip offers in the
holidays is that like when you're stuck in the ditch
because of the snowstorm. This is deeper in the den
and with dangerous day