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Surprised we've got to half a dozen posts without finger wagging disapproval somewhere along the line, but there you go.
My err... record comes from back at the dawn of time when there were half a dozen of us in an old Ford Thames van towing a caravan back from the Austrian Alps in the winter. I did 12hrs and then handed over to someone else for the night shift. Within 10 mins he'd jackknifed the caravan into a ditch at the side of the autobahn on a patch of black ice and refused to drive any more so I did the next 36hrs as well until we got back to London. We'd borrowed the van and the owner needed it for work on Monday morning.
I've done a number of 36hrs straight on (usually small) bikes - all day, all night and all the next day, to get through the boring bits of northern Europe. As with all of these things how well you do comes down to motivation and that's the bit that flags with age. That and the increasing amount of hallucinations that start up around 24hrs in, particularly if it's still dark and the road is traffic free.
Longest distance rather than time was London to Greece via the Balkans in a minibus - probably around 2000 miles with a detour or two. That was three days / night but we had a number of drivers so nothing too strenuous.
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