Harley and Ivey don’t deserve this!
Harley and Ivey don’t deserve this!
It depends on the distance, or how it was expressed. Less than 12 hours, or exact times, probably means just the actual driving time before any stops. Really long spans of time, or when someone says something fuzzy like “a half-day drive,” you can probably assume are accounting for a break or two.
To answer your specific question, if someone said “a 10 hour drive” to me, I would assume they meant 10 actual road hours, before breaks. I would anticipate their actual arrival in an 11 to 12 hour time frame.
I can’t believe that we have reached the point as a civilization where I’m legitimately not sure whether or not this was intended as satire.