Ikenna351:


So the same way you drive when you have a tyre blowout and brake hard in the city, its the same way you drive when you experience the same on highway?

The same way you drive bumper to bumper in the city (which 70% of Nigerians are guilty of in the city), is the same gap one should give other vehicles on highway on high speed?

So the same way you would swerve in the city to avoid jumping potholes or hitting objects, is the same way one should swerve when on highway and on highspeed and sees a big pothole or swerve to avoid bush meat that ran out suddenly from bush?

So the same way you would drive while negotiating a corner/bend in a city, is the same method one must apply when negotiating a bend on high-speed on highway?

So the same way a vehicles suspension and brakes would generally behave in the city, is the same way the vehicle would do on high-speed on highway?


Federal Road Safety Commission really need to take the testing of drivers driving skills before issuing new Driver's Licences and renewing the expired ones, seriously. Because the cause of high rate of death on our highways is so pronounced in this thread.

Ikenna

bros please ignore him, he is an armature.

If op can still read my post; Note the following. Two front tires must be very good,ur life atached to it.2nd-ur radiator must be washed(service)and ur fan must be in good conditn. Check ur braking system,replacing ur engine oil is a must b4 embarking on long distance. Those things mentioned above are the major problems the usualy disturbs jorney. If this is ur 1st time long distance! Be very careful/brave. Don't drive above 100km/h. Observe trafic situation carefuly,avoid overtaking as this is ur 1st time. Whenever u see any of these comercial buses coming behind you, don't let them confuse you becos if u r frightening, they will push you enter bush,as they always believe they are road master.but give them way and be brave. Note: while on ur right lane;a mad driver can face you head on! Don't be confuse imidiately just take some secons decission. Safe jorney. Some experiencer we can't teach you! U must learn it naturally make sure u come back and share it here. God be with you.

Bros park da car n cover it. Wake up early n go 2 ya nearest bus park. (Fair plus travels ) .
Saves u money, energy n time

Hmmm.....first off highway driving and city driving are different....different for you and the car. You would be driving at much faster speeds....and the car would be much more stressed. First I suggest you check your spare. Do an oil change...filter change and if hoses and belts are not in very good condition change them. Coolant....have that checked ...radiator flushed if need to.....cooling system checked out. These are the ones that can act up and leave you stranded.

I once drove my Honda Accord 1999 model for 9 straight hours. All he needs to do is check the engine oil, the brake, your radiator fluid, the wheel and how effective your power steering is. Meanwhile, let your mind be at work. Be fully concentrated while driving. Meanwhile, driving is my hobby

Pre-Trip Inspection checklist for light Vehicles
1. body work in good condition
2 tires in good condition and correct pressure
3. windshield /windows are clean and undamaged
4. mirrors are clean and not damage
5. license /number plate are clean and undamaged
6.reflector are intact
7. seat -belt of approved type and working
8. headrests properly adjusted
9. fuel level sufficient for the trip
10.oil level okay
11. light functioning ,Hazard warning light , Headlight ,brake light , reversing light , positional light etc
12. Horn working
13. wipers working
14. brakes working
15. speedometer working , steering okay
16. spare tire , jack, and wheel wrench
17.fire extinguisher (ABC dry power type )
18 first aid Kid
19. flashlight / torch light
20. insurance card available
21. Load secure (if loaded)
22. Is the Driver okay to drive for long trip
23. Do you know your root to where you are going

Put God first all

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TrishaP:

You don't think women drives, do you?

I'm impressed by your post so stop being paranoid okay?

After prayer n fastin' 4 divine direction, whether 2 embark on D journey or not, den u take ur car 2 D mechanic 4 a fresh service xcept if u jus did D servicin'.. Check all ur tyres 2 no which has wear out, av a spare fan belt, and enof water in ur trunk.. Timin' chain / belt is also paramount 2 check in long trips 4 such car, get bubble gum avoid sleep, n take 15-20 minutes break, as in, park n walk around wen tyred... Been D 1st tyme, I will advise not 2 go alone, get urself company n avoid late night trip, journey mercy bro

U re dumb
It is obvious u ve not driven long distance.
Wat ikenna is seeing while lying down u ll climb a Tree and see nothing.
When I read op post. Ikenna fears re my fears too.
Highway is a jungle. It is either u have it or u don't (survival instinct). There is more to driving on d highway than just driving a car
Mad goat. Capische

madgoat:



Dude, stop ranting. Someone reading your posts will think its rocket science to drive on the highway... I wonder wat the big deal is and why u are making it sound like a very difficult task. You are just causing unncessary panic. The OP is not new to driving. He has been driving for 7yrs and it will be shameful if after all dat years of experience he cannot manage highway driving. Wats d big deal in d highway sef?
Everything u mentioned above are precautions a good driver should take whether its intra-city or on the highway. Ideally, u should not even be driving bumper to bumber in d city, its bad driving. Should a good driver swerve anyhow in d city to avoid potholes?
Driving on d highway is easier... Just dnt over speed and maintain your lane.

My advice
U re not ready yet.
Driving on highway is more of d mind than driving a car.
Drive 3 hours. Stop at a mech. Have d car checked again
U ll be fine but don't ever be overconfident.
Trailer drivers re not nice.
V8 engines drivers ll oppress u
Most importantly. Take 1km at a time
Peace

brosss:
Seen to unseen....

Dash board.... What kind of warning sign do you have on your dash board. Air bag(red) don't move.
Check engine. Orange; no issues. red; don't move.
Oil shortages; don't move
Battery; don't move, your journey might stretch into the night, then u'd understand why u shouldn't have moved.

Suspension: check your "shocks," your road stability- you don't want to drive at high speeds of about 100km/h with bad stabilizers, sadly some vehicles have missing stabilizers. Check your tie rods too.

Tires: you'll need good tires with proper threads, chances are , if you come across road safety, they'll try to place a coin btw the tire threads, if it doesn't hold, problems.
Check your wheel alignments, trust me, you need this one for your long trip, else u find yourself fighting with your wheels all through.
Check your Hub(tire) system. If it makes a slight roomy hum, it has issues. Your ball joints too need to be looked into, specially for honda cars. Let's just say they have reputation for pulling wheels. You could also throw in your staring rack too.

Transmission. How does your vehicle shift? Is it noisy or smooth. What's the response time when you step on the gas? Does it rev high before response?

Brakes: very sharp breaks needed! You'd know why, when some Jack a..s.s overtakes you at alarming speed, more so, if that Jack....a..ss drives a luxury bus.

Mirrors! Trust me, on the high way, vehicles just appear behind you, before u blink, they are beside you and while u are pondering, they are gone.... So u don't assume there's no car beside you and just swerve..... You must look.

Wipers: wait for the rains, at high speed, u'd understand why city driving is so much different from highway driving... Your speed make the rain pellets seem to hit harder at ur car.

Experience and a calm clear head! Let's just say if this is your first time, don't pick any chicks.....

Music..... Needed to break long monotonous views.... U need to give ur brain something else other than endless stretch of roads.

Cooling..... Check your radiator, and cooling system,

Instincts...... Never rule out instincts in travels..... Listen and obey!

Prayers! Pray dude!

Jesus: you know u need him even if the Trip is short!

Do not fear! Step on the gas bro, and do low speeds till u get accustomed to the movement. Avoid racing other cars too...

Your car age and mileage isn't an issue in as much as you maintain properly. .

he said it all
lemme re emphasise 'DO NOT FEAR BE COURAGEOUS'

I wil advice u a list btw dos 6 hrs stop and walk for like 15 mins or stay off d staring for like 15 min doing oda tins to avoid fatique, is very necssary.

o man were art thou faith?you don't need to bother yourself with this just come join us at rccg and pay your tithes regularly and the God of Adeboye will even drive you without fuel from Lagos to borno.we will gladly be awaiting your testimony.

CityNG:


There's no reason why any car that is well maintained cannot make a 6 hour trip.

When I was shuttling between Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas, I had a 1998 or so BMW 528i. 24 hours non stop door to door and the car never broke a sweat. I'm usually doing over 100 mph and occasional forays into the 150mph range sometimes for an hour.

The key is your maintenance regiment on your vehicle.

150 Miles per hour? You sure you don't mean kilometers per hour (kph)?

Are u doing formular 1? Oh boy, i doubt Abeg

God bless you sir,
A lot of times I see avoidable accidents in the streets of abuja and begin to wonder.
One day a took a drop from wuse to kubwa,the guy was doing what he termed driving and I was complaining seriously,when we got to dutse opp the federal civil service training college,he overtook another car at a speed of more than 100km per hour and behold he enter into the connecting road leading to the commercial lane as we were on the major speed lane.its just God.it would have been a real disater.the innocent man he over took tried so hard to control his car,same with him.I told him that he was at fault. He said but he was indicating showing he was to enter,I was teeling him dat you can not trafficate and at same time enter a connecting road with such speed and u are overtaking at same time. It was hell that day.
I think FRSC still have a lot of work to do other than checking of papers.

Ikenna351:


What you posted above could lead to a lot of sad faces. Highway drive is not a computer car game. Everything happens in seconds, no time for you to even remember what you have read here. You have to develop the skills.

Ikenna

CityNG:


There's no reason why any car that is well maintained cannot make a 6 hour trip.

When I was shuttling between Los Angeles, California and Dallas, Texas, I had a 1998 or so BMW 528i. 24 hours non stop door to door and the car never broke a sweat. I'm usually doing over 100 mph and occasional forays into the 150mph range sometimes for an hour.

The key is your maintenance regiment on your vehicle.

150 mph.

Okay.

TCD:
There is no big deal difference riding intra city and highway. Road is road. Just follow same safe driving rules you shouldn't have any difficulty.

Very big lie bro..

Unless you have done 12 hours straight on highway, then will I believe you.

Meet your mechanic and he will do the needful. Also I will advise you look for a friend that have enough experience so the two of you can travel together. The first time I drove from Lagos to Benin in 2009, I had just 3 months driving experience within Lagos. The state of your mind matters a lot. Once you can make the journey, you have conquered the fear. Safe journey brother.

Chillisauce:
Model 97?
You are better off with public transport before the car quench for road.

Ha ha ha

alfa0:


i disagree with you sir,

Intra city and Highway driving are totally two different things.

1. The degree of mental alertness is not the same

2.Your decision making time can not be the same

3. Your speed can not be same

4. The driving skills comes to proper test on highways

5. Your car must be well maintained to do constant high speed for a long time,And assuming your car is not sound or well maintained and you still want to go high way,my brother your experience will help you a lot .
I can go on and on,but let me stop here. .

cheers

If he doesn't make an attempt to drive on a highway now when will he attempt it.
If he can drive on an expressway(intra state) then i see no reason why he can't drive on a highway(inter state)

Where do u reside so I can give u a route to drive through....if u carry out the task you can drive ur six hours on your sound vehicle.

Just two month old with driving experience , then I drove down to lagos from Zaria successfully. It js jst a state of mind and carefulness. I break d journey though, like from Zaria to Abuja, I wait small , den from Abuja to lokoja, then to okene till I reach lagos.

If you religiously maintain your car as you claimed..

I can assure you your car would drive better when back from that journey..

That engine would breath better, and would be willing to do more the next morning..

goodluck to you!

Maser:


You're clearly wrong in your advice and I doubt if you've driven highway before. I drive long distance nearly every two weeks on very rough Nigerian roads and with 20 years driving experience under my belt.

I can tell the OP that intra-city is completely different from long distance.

In long distance note the following;

Drive at a speed you can control, for a starter please maintain at most 100km/hr

Leave gap between you and other vehicles in case of eventuality

Be foresighted and keep you gaze afar off in order to spot potholes and gradually steer off(not swerve) before you approach.

If you meet any unexpected pothole whilst on speed, do not attempt to swerve off it (this could throw you off the road into the bush). Just slow down a bit and take your foot off your brake and enter the pothole. The worst that could happen is damage to your shock or bottom plate but at least you'll be alive and your car intact.

Be careful on snaky or bending roads, slow down whilst you move on them to avoid being thrown off the road.

Be very cautious of whatever lies ahead that you can't see properly whether a bend, or a hill or mirage.

Do not compete with any car you see on the road

Do not apply brakes abruptly whilst on high speed

You only have split seconds to make life-critical decisions

All these points you mentioned don't they also apply in driving intracity?

Lagusta:


Nice submission!!!!

@TCD, driving on the highway is TOTALLY different from driving on the city streets...

Speed, overtaking, reaction time, distance between cars, alertness.... Name it all, it changes within a split second...

One needs to be more careful while on the highway..... Or would you compare driving on third mainland bridge to driving on abiodun jagun street

lol my brother same rules of careful and safe driving applies both ways. there is no special thing.

it's bad driving habit to over speed , it's bad to over take at a bend , it's bad to speed down a bend or curved road , its wrong to drive bumper to bumber. whether city or highway what is wrong is wrong.

one should be very alert and careful at all times whether driving in residential neighbourhood or formula one track. the same rules of safe driving applies.

Ikenna351:


So the same way you drive when you have a tyre blowout and brake hard in the city, its the same way you drive when you experience the same on highway?

The same way you drive bumper to bumper in the city (which 70% of Nigerians are guilty of in the city), is the same gap one should give other vehicles on highway on high speed?

So the same way you would swerve in the city to avoid jumping potholes or hitting objects, is the same way one should swerve when on highway and on highspeed and sees a big pothole or swerve to avoid bush meat that ran out suddenly from bush?

So the same way you would drive while negotiating a corner/bend in a city, is the same method one must apply when negotiating a bend on high-speed on highway?

So the same way a vehicles suspension and brakes would generally behave in the city, is the same way the vehicle would do on high-speed on highway?


Federal Road Safety Commission really need to take the testing of drivers driving skills before issuing new Driver's Licences and renewing the expired ones, seriously. Because the cause of high rate of death on our highways is so pronounced in this thread.

Ikenna

i will just quote u and say nothing else cos u don talk am finish.

interstate/ intercity driving is another ball game altogether. anyone who does not realise it might be looking at a very short lifespan especially on naija roads.

most importantly, pray hard before driving on the highway. witches from the village are looking for exactly such opportunity to flex dia muscles.

I just lost an office colleague this morning due to accident on the owerri - PHC road. from what I gather, the accident was entirely no fault of his.

Read my advice very well.I never said he should not go highway.read it very well and quote me correctly
Cheers

Melahou:


If he doesn't make an attempt to drive on a highway now when will he attempt it.
If he can drive on an expressway(intra state) then i see no reason why he can't drive on a highway(inter state)

donbabade:
U re dumb
It is obvious u ve not driven long distance.
Wat ikenna is seeing while lying down u ll climb a Tree and see nothing.
When I read op post. Ikenna fears re my fears too.
Highway is a jungle. It is either u have it or u don't (survival instinct). There is more to driving on d highway than just driving a car
Mad goat. Capische

Sounds more like u are drunk on cheap alcohol
Mumu wey no sabi anything. I bet you dnt even know how to drive. All diz small dudes just ranting on NL and trying to feel among.
Oga go and learn driving before u comment on this thread.

These are 2 different driving experience .

But if you have been driving in the city for 7 years then ,with extra care and less speed until you will understand the difference you will .

Be careful with Speed , be 100% sure before you overtaking .

With your mind and experience ,and your car in good condition ,you are good to go .

Pay attention to your BRAKE SYSTEM, ALL LIGHT(Especially head lamp,brake light,parking light) ,TYRES ,Jack,Fire Extinguisher,Wheel

spanner,C - caution , Oil Guage , and your engine before you embark

You know , if you have never driven at night does not mean you can't .It all begin one day.

All in 1 , YOU CAN DO IT .