Can anyone give me the current approximate drive time from PP to Sihanoukville?

Planning to leave about 6am on a Monday in early January.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:53 am Can anyone give me the current approximate drive time from PP to Sihanoukville?

Planning to leave about 6am on a Monday in early January.

Averaging about six hours right now, in a private car. It really depends on truck traffic. The road is generally in acceptable condition, rain season wasn’t too hard on it.

Make sure you and any other front seat passengers are wearing seat belts, they’ve been cracking down on it. And stop at the red light in Kampong Speu, the cops are still staking it out there.

Clemen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:15 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:53 am Can anyone give me the current approximate drive time from PP to Sihanoukville?

Planning to leave about 6am on a Monday in early January.

Averaging about six hours right now, in a private car. It really depends on truck traffic. The road is generally in acceptable condition, rain season wasn’t too hard on it.

Make sure you and any other front seat passengers are wearing seat belts, they’ve been cracking down on it. And stop at the red light in Kampong Speu, the cops are still staking it out there.

Thanks. 6 hours is not too bad, does that include the mandatory stops for feeding the driver?

I always wear seat belts and sit in the front. Maybe the airbags might work too.

Well, I’m always the driver, so a bit different situation.
Leaving @6 could be a problem in that he might want to stop for both breakfast and lunch.
With one meal stop, and ok traffic I’d say about six hours.
You can find yourself stuck behind 15 trucks going 30-40kph though.

Edit: just talked to a friend who came last week in a hired car, he left at noon and said it took 6.5hrs

Clemen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:15 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:53 am Can anyone give me the current approximate drive time from PP to Sihanoukville?

Planning to leave about 6am on a Monday in early January.

Averaging about six hours right now, in a private car. It really depends on truck traffic. The road is generally in acceptable condition, rain season wasn’t too hard on it.

Make sure you and any other front seat passengers are wearing seat belts, they’ve been cracking down on it. And stop at the red light in Kampong Speu, the cops are still staking it out there.

and wear a mask. Coppers will try to squeeze 50 bucks out of you if you don't.

phuketrichard wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:33 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 3:22 pm

Clemen wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 12:15 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 19, 2020 11:53 am Can anyone give me the current approximate drive time from PP to Sihanoukville?

Planning to leave about 6am on a Monday in early January.

Averaging about six hours right now, in a private car. It really depends on truck traffic. The road is generally in acceptable condition, rain season wasn’t too hard on it.

Make sure you and any other front seat passengers are wearing seat belts, they’ve been cracking down on it. And stop at the red light in Kampong Speu, the cops are still staking it out there.

and wear a mask. Coppers will try to squeeze 50 bucks out of you if you don't.

seriously?? wtf a fine for NOT wearing a mask in ur own car but ok to sit in a bar/restaurant without one>>>>> only 230 kms

Not your own car, I assumed OP was talking about a taxi.

Passengers in a taxi not wearing a mask are a target for coppers.

" What has happened to make it such a long trip? I recall my last trip self drive around 2017 on a weekday and it only taking like 4 1/2 hours from street 136 to Victory beach, with only 1 30 minute stop for food and toilet "

I did the trip once a year every January 2014 to 2018, on the Ibis bus. Journey time increased from 4 1/2hrs to 6 1/2 hrs, basically because many more very slow moving trucks on the road. You'd get stuck behind one for a few km's before eventually overtaking it, & then getting stuck behind the next one, & then the next one & the next one, again & again

The slow moving truck drivers didn't have the intelligence to pull over towards the side of the road to let the built-up traffic stuck behind them pass by, end result was suicidal overtaking all the time

The mighty (trucks) and the wealthy seem to have priority on the roads, more so that they want that delivery not to be disrupted by anything, but it's not going to work because they themselves end up being hindered by their fellow truck drivers. It's going to take some serious government intervention too sort out what is only to be a growing problem.