In reply to Southern Man: although I do work for a haulage company I tend to drive a few hundred miles more than the other drivers since I drive the pick up and not speed limited or tachographed.
Since the average speed of any road journey is likely to be 50mph or so maximum (depends how much open motorway you get to drive on) then that's 11 - 14hrs of driving *plus* loading and unloading times.
How is your back doing all those miles? And why are you not fat?
I don't drive so much, but if I'm in a car for longer than 4 hours my back gets sore.
I had a working road trip across the States last year, 2000 miles in 2 weeks (and lots of flights), I nearly went nuts driving in straight lines on the freeway.
About 2,000 a month. 550 a day would drive me nuts - that's home to Fot William every day, just to turn round and come back the following day, back again the next and so on. I don't know how you do it!
it certainly beats being stuck in an office
I felt sure you were going to say, beats being stuck in the traffic!
I have done 30,000 in my work van in 6 years! That's plenty for me. Although I do have a car for family and climbing trips.
Commute I do 550/wk so about 2.5k mth but only 100 business miles a month and a steady 1k personal miles per month so just over 3.5k miles per month I reckon.
In reply to JSA: I do about 12000 every 3 months, about 4000 a month averaged... For a student, that seems to be a lot, relative to other people but I don't really notice it.
In reply to JSA:
currently a return commute of approx 65 miles, 5 days a week normally tho round christmas and easter this goes upto 6 or 7 days a week so 325 to/from work normally but upto 400.. plus anywhere between 10 and 150 on a weekend depending where i end up...
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