How much do you drive?

[MechEng]

I got to thinking about this today on my drive in to work. My 2012 GT/CS has 46,000ish miles on it. I've put every single one on there in the last year and seven months. That comes out to driving a little over 80 miles a day, every day.

My daily commute to work is 150 miles round trip, 1.5 hours going in, 2-2.5 hours coming out.

How about you guys? What are your driving habits like?

 

[Widowmaker00]

Wow that seems like a lot of driving to me. My 2010 GT has 34,346 mi on it and I have had it since new when it only had 1 mile on it. Right now I think I drive about 16-18 miles a day.

 

[imusa76]

I have a company van 2011 Ford Transit, and I put 150-200 miles per day on it.

my wife has a 2010 Toyota Prius and she averages 470-550 per week, she delivers news papers with it 7 days a week. and we used it as the family car also.

 

[droptop73]

I drive about 15 to 18 miles each way. About a 20 minute commute from opposite ends of the metro area. It is very easy commuting around here! It's a great place to live... in the summer.

 

[Sumit]

The commute I have right now is not great. I have a little Mazda2 and I drive about 45-60 minutes to school. Which includes a new bridge that happens to be a toll bridge ($3 a day), they had to toll it to pay for it. Its the widest bridge in the world at ten lanes. Then when when I'm finally off the bridge it becomes gridlock until I manage to crawl my way to school where a $4.50 parking fee is waiting everyday.

 

[CZ-75]

My commute take about 20-25 minutes... probably about 18 miles

 

[caspianwendell]

The commute I have right now is not great. I have a little Mazda2 and I drive about 45-60 minutes to school. Which includes a new bridge that happens to be a toll bridge ($3 a day), they had to toll it to pay for it. Its the widest bridge in the world at ten lanes. Then when when I'm finally off the bridge it becomes gridlock until I manage to crawl my way to school where a $4.50 parking fee is waiting everyday.

That is horrible...I'm happy with my commute...I get up (when I want), walk a 100 feet to the shop, and get to work. Sometime after a long, hard day, that long walk is rough on a decrepit old fart like me though

 

[Don C]

When I was working full time my commute was 12 miles one way. Now that I am semi-retired I just walk into my home office whenever I have something to do

 

[goodnigh]

My commute is less than 10 minutes.

I can walk to work in less than 30.

Just love driving the Mustang.

mike

 

[OLE PONY]

Before I retired I was driving 98.5 miles a day round trip commute to work, plus any other errands trips etc added on to that! This was in Northern Virginia traffic commuting up next to the Pentagon so travel time varied quite a bit, but usually around 3 hours a day. As the other retirees have said it's not too far to get out of bed and walk to the garage or around the house to do chores! I use to fill up with gas about every 2 to 3 days, now once a month is more like it unless we take a weekend trip somewhere.

 

[auron73mach1]

on a weekly basis between the dually and the excursion i do a total if 300 or so miles a week but my longest commute was 2,506 miles each way ... that was a long trip with the cruse control not working

 

[ccijwright]

110 miles round trip, usually an hour and a half each way.

 

[73vertproject]

OK, my commute to the high school is 3 blocks each way, but I still drive the 'vert whenever I can. That might explain the 12 or so MPG I'm estimating I get...

 

[MechEng]

on a weekly basis between the dually and the excursion i do a total if 300 or so miles a week but my longest commute was 2,506 miles each way ... that was a long trip with the cruse control not working

I don't think it's fair to call it a commute at that point!

 

[Mister 4x4]

11 miles from driveway to parking lot M-F. 10.5 to the Auto Hobby Shop from the driveway on the weekends. Probably 5-6 miles for incidental trips here and there almost daily.

Add that to a trip to SLC, 2 trips to DFW, 2 to San Antonio, 1 to Wichita Falls, and 1 to Austin, and I STILL only have 126,000 on my '97 Ram that I bought showing 24K in 1999. (My driving the Ram diminished somewhat when I had the Honda for 3.5 years... but not THAT much)

Hey Auron, that's not a commute... that's a full-on Road Trip. rofl

 

[turtle5353]

About a year and half ago when I got my new job I was traveling around 200-225 miles round trip. Now I got put at another jobsite permanently and luckily it's only 18 miles from my house. So 36 miles round trip a day. And if I drive the mustang that usually takes over a quarter tank.

 

[mustbrad]

About 90 miles round trip, just about 50 minutes door to door stopping 2 times for a few minutes.

 

[mach71351c]

Today drove the Explorer 1.5 miles to work and then drove The Peterbilt 342 miles in circles. Then the Explorer 1.5 home. Put a 100K on the Pete in just under 3 years.

 

[Jim and Jutta]

I'm set up to work from home so it could be several days before the garage door is even opened.