Vacuman

As a home worker, help me feel more blessed by sharing with me the awful details on your long daily commute. Anyone do more than 60 miles each way, each day?

DangerousBryan

Nope, sorry. 3 miles each way for me.

Milkybar Kid

130ish each way for me

Glenn_

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5 miles for me. 8 to 10 mins at the most.

RichieST

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Crikey, is that each day?


I do 30 miles each way every day, takes about an hour each way. That's enough for me!

Shaun's

Bout 25-30 each way in a transit van......

smiley

115 each way after Christmas not worth lodging away on hours

Csm

I do 74 miles per day total, to and from work takes anything from 50 minutes to a couple of hours if traffics shit due to usual smash or breakdowns.

Sucks the fuckin life out of me at times.

Thrush

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3.3 in a Transit. But that's only the morning start location - finish location could be miles away. I've done 40/50/60 even 80 miles from last job to home on plenty occasions.

Even worse is when it's only twenty something, but that twenty something starts in central or south London... Then I'd rather it be 50 miles but on the motorway!

STeve

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my cousin who is stationed in catterick north yorks drives daily to boston lincs in his st3, over 1200 miles a week, but he is only stationed there for 3 months but its still mad

dojj

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i was going to be doing 130 miles each way per day for at least 2 days a week

but work were providing the van and the diseasal and paying me from when i left my house to when i got back again (or overnight accomodation plus food etc)

i thought long and hard about it before i said "fuck that"

Glenn_

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Just down the road from me.

STeve

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hes stationed with the royal lancers, have to say they have the best regiment logo in the army

JK12

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86 at the moment -

Vacuman

Hear there's a chap called Santa and his route is over 24,000 miles as the crow flies but it's multiple drops so probably a lot lot more.

Lucky it's only once a year.

R4N SS

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I do 1.5 miles each way - can cycle to work in the same time it takes to drive and park the car up. Can walk to work in 15 mins

Used to do 38 miles each way which used to take an hour in the mornings but moved closer to work

massivewangers

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Used to do 50 miles each way. Technically now I work 100 miles from home, but I stay away during the week.

Going to ditch that and start working from home as much as possible though.

gingeRS

12 miles, sometimes takes 1.5-2 hours

FML

Fil

6 miles to work for me, hence the v12 for the daily commute

45 mins on days sometimes, 10 mins on night shift



use the cosworth in the school holidays, as the clutch is too much of a chore in traffic

chris cdti

Only 11 miles each way for me

Kam B

I used to do 50 miles a day to uni in my Saph Cosworth, it was comfortable quick and not that noisy. Had decent audio in it so was an all rounder for me. I bought it from Grimsby and drove it home to Slough with no probs. Even went to Bradford and it ate the miles up and was decent on fuel too

Bailes1992

Averaging 700miles week at the moment.

Fraggle...

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60 a day, in morning at 5.30am 30miles can be done in a very very silly time esp if I've one of my colleagues on me tail

At 5.30pm 30mile averages 30/40mins good run or 2.5hrs!!

Sadly however its driven a focus st IS NOT a commuter car for echo bunnies or the itchy wallet brigade

RichieST

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That's why I got rid of mine and bought a diesel mundaneo

CrOwSoN15

9 miles, I've done it in 9 minutes in the T5 when I was running a little late once.

CrOwSoN15

I WILL smoke around in a V12 one day, and most likely a 750!

RichieST

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Slacker!!! I did 20 miles in 15 minutes in my old ST when my first born was hanging out between the wifes legs, luckily it was 1am on a Monday morning and most was a deserted A road!

Bailes1992

I've done some silly distances in short lengths of time when I was working early mornings/nights. Don't bother any more, it's just not worth the risk of loosing my license.

st220kyle

Some of you must be earing a fair wedge to make it worth travelling those distances if your using your own car.

Bailes1992

I'm working in Bournemouth University. It costs me Ł36 in diesel for a return journey and my company gives me Ł14 traveling expenses and Ł14 traveling time.
They also give me Ł38 a night to pay for digs.

Fucking JIB rules.

st220kyle

Do you not get a van? So you have to carry all your tools around in your car? That does seem unfair imo

Bailes1992

We're all expected to use our own cars to carry our own tools. We don't carry any company tools, equipment or gear.

The JIB traveling rules state that distances are worked out as the crow flies. Weston Super Mare from Cardiff is less than 20 miles as the crow flies.

However I'm currently working a trainee engineer/project manager role so not having to carry around any tools. Just a laptop and my clothes.

The Enigma

Why not buy a scooter?

RichieST

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I wouldn't do it on my normal salary but do earn well on overtime, I pulled in almost as much as my regional manager in the last tax year which he wasn't too chuffed about

RichieST

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Was thinking the same, even a leisurely bicycle ride would be quicker!

st220kyle

Wasn't there a new law recently which meant that employees that weren't travelling home from a fixed place of work had to be paid normal rate?

I've just seen where your from, going over the bridge each time is a bugger as well then for you. Over Ł6 now isn't it?

xr2wishy

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2.2 miles each way, done in five mins most days.
I'd actually like a longer route though, just to brain dump on the way home.

dojj

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i didn't NEED to do either the 97 miles in 42 minutes, nor the 131 miles in 1 hour and 5 minutes, but i did

and this was in my commuter sierra that i took to work and back for 6 weeks before the boss decided that the alarm going off every few minutes meant that he'd rather i took the van home

Vacuman

Does anyone worry these days that such short journeys are bad for your car? Not warmed up properly, engine and exhaust full of wet, corrosive residuals etc. Or was that just what they warned us about last century?

xr2wishy

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i always have a couple of decent runs out a week too, either out with family or taking mtb out.
in an ideal world i'd use a 1 litre banger and not worry, but the 3litre turbo diesel gets me everywhere comfortably. 10 months on has proven it can do the job like this.