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@tmevans Two years ago I drove the family to Fort William from Bexleyheath, it took us twelve hours including stops, total driving time was 9.5 hours, but we left 6.30am
Shifts were four hours me, two hours the missus, last three & half meRoute was M25, M11, A1M to A68 then A69, M6 , A74, M74, the A82 which is beautiful that last bit through Glencoe
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@tmevans Done that route to Fort William a few times. Skye is still a trek up from there.
And getting from the Skye bridge to Northern end is a big chunk of time too.
Went from Ashford, early sunday morning start, M25 Dartford crossing, M1, Scotch Corner A66 to Penrith (banging bit of road) and made Gretna in 6 1/2 hours. Glasgow, maybe 1 1/2 hours, avoid going to Fort William via Loch Lomond as the road is awful, head up to Stirling and get off near Dunblane which is the route for lorries, much better and faster road with many chances to overtake sensibly. You do see speed mobile speed cameras at odd times (late night/early morning) as Glencoe/Rannoch is fast A road and high incident when windy or Deer about at night or people running out of talent.
Might do Fort William to Skye in 1 1/2 - 2 hours, roads would be empty, but snow/ice/wandering deer.
From Scotch Corner, maybe 45mins to 1 hour to M6, from there to Glasgow motorway is fairly empty and nothing like M20/M25/M1 etc etc.
Depends on fuel tank range, how strong is your bladder and actually cruising at 70 you might get there in 11.
12 hours as a baseline, with a clean run and F1 style pitstop for fuel and toilet and maybe... 11, if you hit traffic maybe 14 hours.