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Drive time calculator with breaks
Enter your stops, a departure time and how often you plan to take a break, and the calculator gives the driving time, the total time with breaks and your estimated arrival. Driving times come from Google Maps for a passenger vehicle in typical traffic, for up to 12 stops.
Driving distance and time come from Google Maps for a passenger vehicle at typical traffic. Addresses are sent to Google to calculate the route and are not stored by us.
Trip time
Enter at least a start and a destination.
Why plan drive time with breaks
Driving time alone underestimates a long trip, because nobody drives eight hours without stopping. Adding your own breaks gives a realistic arrival time to share with a customer, a site or the next shift. Planning it before departure also shows whether a route fits in the day or needs an overnight stop.
See the real trip as it happens
A calculator gives an estimate. High Point GPS fleet tracking shows where each vehicle is, its trips and stops, and records driver hours through an electronic logging device (ELD) for drivers who must keep logs. FleetZap, our own software, adds dispatch with road time ETAs and a live tracking link your customer can open from an email.
Get a quoteTips for realistic drive times
Set the departure time you will really leave, not the time the vehicle is loaded or the shift starts.
Enter a break plan that matches how your drivers actually stop, including fuel and meals.
Add margin for weather, construction and city traffic at peak hours, which an average estimate does not fully cover.
For a commercial truck, check the trip against hours of service rules before you promise an arrival time.
Drive time questions
- How is the drive time calculated?
- The calculator asks Google Maps for the driving route through your stops in the order you enter them, for a passenger vehicle in typical traffic. It adds the time of each leg, then adds your breaks if you set a break plan. Starting from your departure time, it shows the estimated arrival at the final destination.
- How are breaks added?
- You choose how often to stop and for how long, for example a break every so many hours of driving. The calculator counts how many breaks fall within the driving time and adds their minutes to the trip. Nothing is added if you leave the break fields empty, so the result is then driving time only.
- Is the drive time accurate for trucks?
- Not exactly. The times are for a car in typical traffic. Loaded trucks often drive slower, may need truck routes and must follow hours of service rules on driving and rest. Treat the result as a lower limit and use an hours of service calculator to check whether a commercial driver can legally complete the trip.
- Does the calculator include live traffic?
- No. It uses typical traffic for the route, not the conditions at the moment you leave. Rush hour, accidents, construction and weather can add time that the estimate does not show. For a trip with a fixed delivery window, plan extra margin and update the arrival time once the driver is on the road.
- Can I calculate a round trip?
- Yes. Turn on the return to start option and the calculator adds the drive back to your first address. The total driving time, the breaks and the arrival time then cover the full round trip. This is useful for a service vehicle that leaves the yard in the morning and must be back before the end of the day.