Thermal imaging... Now that's a cool way to spot traffic ahead!

 

Im thinking Matte black gt2 with a IR integrated windshield and a muffler with vacuum controled bypass pipes...muahahah...2011...





In seriousness...again, that is too kickass...how many did you have helping you?

 

Nobody was "hired" to help. Countless hours went into planning and preparation. It was really just a crazy cast of interested parties who wanted to see it through (None more than Alex Roy). Our spotter plane had 2 pilots one passenger from a failed attempt and a camera man. In the car we had Alex, Myself (and Cory Welles of the documentary www.32hours7minutes.com in the back seat managing 8 cameras and documenting every minute of the trip on film). A few others at the start line (some who flew to the finish) and friends, family & previous US Express drivers to witness at the finish as well as a host of reporters from Jalopnik, Wired, and NY Times who are all scooping the story. (All of whom were NDA'd and have kept their silence until yesterday)
On the road, it was really Alex and I in charge of driving, spotting and navigating. Only in the daytime did we have any air support and heavy rain took reduced a substantial portion of that. The aerial support was more moral than anything else. It helped knowing that as insane as we were for attempting this we had friends equally as crazy willing to fly overhead. They also provided some ridiculously cool aerial footage and commentary.
There are tons who dismiss this as a dangerous, childish, reckless endeavor that had its day at the end of the Cannonball Run in 1979, but I assure you this is a very big country and so much of the roads are so long and straight, and at night, so empty that I was astounded how we could do it in this day and age and go almost completely unnoticed. We were extremely careful to reduce speed differential when passing cars and trucks not only for safety reasons, but also to in essence fly under the radar and that's exactly what we did.

 

Congrats and a great read.

 

Please keep us posted. I would love to get a copy of the DVD.

 

Your best bet is to go to www.32hours7minutes.com and enter some info into the GET UPDATES tab. Cory Welles is great and committed to fans and will keep you updated. The film is in final production and final edits are underway. This documentary has been 5 years in the making, and what I've seen is great (but then again I am extremely biased) A finished version is targeted for end of December, but some new trailers and teasers will probably be hitting the site from now till then.

 

Dave...i want to be you.

That's crazy.
going to read the articles when i get back home.

cheers!

 

If I'm reading that right, you did it a year ago, but waited to release the story until the statute of limitations expired?

Kudos! For most people here that have "road tripped" you've done something we can all envy.

 

A Coast to Coast trip took me 84 hours. However, I was moving 26,000 lbs, so I think I beat Dave in weight/time ratio.

Good job.

 

I did Napa, CA to Ithaca, NY in 51 hours back during my college days and I thought that was fast.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/sp...ts&oref=slogin

 

great story. can't wait to hear and see more!!

 

Dave, read the Wired article (it's making it's rounds on nearly every forum I'm on). Fantastic read, sounds like you guys had a blast.

 

that was an amazing feat .. congrats!

For some other inspirational reading, check out these guys. Coast to Coast on motorcycle in less than 50 hours (solo!).

http://www.ironbutt.com/ridecerts/ge...nt.cfm?DocID=4

or better yet, Coast to Coast and back, in under 100 ...

http://www.ironbutt.com/ridecerts/ge...nt.cfm?DocID=5

 

It takes me that long just to commute to work!