I'm sitting at 80-90 miles a day to and from work + random odds and ends

7/26/2011 3:21:37 PM

~13miles. Yay for living close to work

7/26/2011 3:23:29 PM

50 miles for work

Maybe 5-10 more if I'm running errands

7/26/2011 3:24:18 PM

Maybe 5. Sometimes I walk. But not lately.

7/26/2011 3:24:27 PM

Maybe 25-30 miles.

However, I always keep the car in first gear so I can burn as much gas as possible.

7/26/2011 3:25:40 PM

normal day? less than 5. The furthest I usually drive is to the PR haha but I go to the beach very often and that's about 180 miles each way.

7/26/2011 3:26:30 PM

Anywhere from like 3 to 30

7/26/2011 3:27:43 PM

47 miles

7/26/2011 3:30:45 PM

about 9.2 miles...

7/26/2011 3:30:54 PM

umm, average as of the last few weeks is probably 50ish

7/26/2011 3:33:02 PM

14 during the week. The weekend varies depending on if I go to High Point or just Jordan Lake.

7/26/2011 3:38:10 PM

I drove 898 miles last week, so 898/7=128.29 miles per day last week.

4/1/06 - 7/22/2011, I have driven 141,212 miles in my truck.

141212/1938= 72.86 miles/day (average over the lifetime of the vehicle)

7/26/2011 3:38:17 PM

~10 miles each way

7/26/2011 3:41:17 PM

~290 miles to my office

7/26/2011 3:42:19 PM

15-20 miles

7/26/2011 4:04:17 PM

approximately 100 miles per day on days I drive to work. Yay for work from home days!

7/26/2011 4:07:21 PM

oh yeah, my drive is only on Sunday and Thursday nights lol

7/26/2011 4:10:20 PM

Mine is 4 days a week right now. Possibly 3 days a week beginning in about a month. But this week, it's 700 miles for Monday through Friday.

[Edited on July 26, 2011 at 4:12 PM. Reason : s]

7/26/2011 4:12:12 PM

in the past year I have put ~33k on my work truck and ~18k on my personal truck. so this comes to about 140 miles per day average over the past year......

edit: revised numbers: those mileages are since the beginning of July '09, so it is more like 130 miles per day over 13 months.

[Edited on July 26, 2011 at 4:15 PM. Reason : fd]

7/26/2011 4:13:39 PM

~10 miles...not sure if I could take these long commutes.

7/26/2011 4:14:13 PM

last week I drove around 900 miles I think, maybe a bit more but that's not usual at all

7/26/2011 4:21:58 PM

PUBLIC TRANSIT REPORTING!

7/26/2011 4:28:17 PM

My median is probably 0. Mean is probably about 1.

7/26/2011 4:34:53 PM

My work commute is 15 miles each way, so on average around 35-40 miles a day. I really wish I could ride my bike to work but I'd have to live closer for that and I have no desire to live anywhere near my office.

7/26/2011 4:42:52 PM

20-25 miles to and from work each day

7/26/2011 4:46:15 PM

I always have fun with mileage metrics.


When PDAs were cool, I had a palm pilot program I used where I manually entered fuel price, odometer reading, and gallon amount to record data over a period of approximately one year. It was exciting.

Then PDAs went the way of Sony Minidiscs and Laser Disc readers and Google, so now I am just waiting for the gas mileage app for facebook.


Anyway, point is that one of the first steps of effective financial budgeting is calculating mileage since the cost of gas is now such a huge factor in the cost of living for an American. Historical data will help you predict where you should live versus how effective that location is with respect to work.

In summary I beat the spread over the last three years based on that PDA data, and it was awesome.

I would keep track and pretend that I had thermal imaging gear to verify I was seldom using my car. I would pretend if I could see my engine block with thermal imaging gear (if you've ever seen this technique you know what I mean) to calculate average usage of run time and when the car was powered down. If I could see my engine block with my imaginary thermal imaging gear on most days I was doing something wrong.

/nerd

/green nerd


I have the Shaquille O'Neal of carbon footprints otherwise

7/26/2011 4:54:46 PM

55 or so miles for work. Maybe another 5-10 for other stuff.

7/26/2011 4:56:03 PM

my wife and I carpool to work (same company) which is about a 15 mile round trip. I'm pretty happy with that.

[Edited on July 26, 2011 at 4:58 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2011 4:58:18 PM

30-35 a day round trip to work

7/26/2011 4:59:08 PM

I don't like driving, so I do as little as possible

7/26/2011 5:00:21 PM

15-20 miles total per day.

7/26/2011 5:01:48 PM

^x6You can do most of that now with a iOS app. I use the KB Car Care app which was like $1.99.

Currently I drive 331 miles a week for work or avg. of 66 miles a day. I live in Halifax County but work in Orange County, and stay in Wake County during the week. So my Monday AM drive and Friday PM drive SUCK.

Once the house is sold or my wife gets a job and we move to CH, I will get an apartment on the bus route and then my commute will be 0 miles. Can't wait for that just because I will save a shitload of money on gas and negate the need to replace my 16 year old truck that is pushing 300k miles.

[Edited on July 26, 2011 at 5:04 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2011 5:03:45 PM

I do about 100 miles a week since you people asked.

7/26/2011 5:03:57 PM

Quote :

" When PDAs were cool, I had a palm pilot program I used where I manually entered fuel price, odometer reading, and gallon amount to record data over a period of approximately one year. It was exciting."

I never fancied it up with a PDA, but I've been writing down my mileage, the date of the fill up, # of gallons purchased, and fuel cost on notepads for the last 12 years. It is interesting data to track, that's for sure.

Also makes it extremely easy to remember when you last got an oil change, rotated the tires, aligned the suspension, etc (since you can write that in as well).

7/26/2011 5:04:00 PM

0
 

7/26/2011 5:05:39 PM

Bump that

On a school day, less than 10 miles there and back

7/26/2011 5:05:49 PM

^^^Yea I grew up with my dad doing that shit in Works. I didn't want to fucking deal with bringing it home and putting it in, so the KB Car Care app alleviated me of all that shit. Now I just put it in while I drive, since 99% of the time I have my iPod on me to listen to my music/audiobooks. When you put in the mileage on the fuel updates it automatically calculates your mileage since you changed the oil, rotated the tires, etc. and warns you when its getting close and surpasses your preset mileage alerts.

[Edited on July 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM. Reason : ]

7/26/2011 5:05:58 PM

^ if y'all homeboys really wanna take it to the next level, check out this dude named Feltron

He turned his OCD into a gimmick and actually profited from his ability to quantify and record absolutely everything in his daily life for the best cost-benefit-analysis...even external analysis on his iPod playlists and net number of times each one of his iPod mp3s was played over the period of a year


http://feltron.com/ar08_04.html

7/26/2011 5:13:16 PM

Wait, drive? Then I change mine to ~10 a week but it varies on the weekend. I take the bike to work during the week so that cuts down the number dramatically.

7/26/2011 5:17:55 PM

there and back im sitting at 40 miles there and back.. i drive from sam newell in matthews nc to wt harris near 85.. my wife works at the same building just different hours.. it sucks

7/26/2011 5:54:10 PM

~20 a day, to and from work
add 5 if I'm running errands

7/26/2011 5:55:13 PM

7

7/26/2011 5:56:38 PM

About 14 miles each day.

About a tank a week. If I upgrade to a tiny car, it'll be about a tank a month.

7/26/2011 6:03:58 PM

i have driven 31,700 miles per year for the last 3 years

87 miles per day

7/26/2011 6:05:55 PM

10 miles a day

7/26/2011 6:06:13 PM

avg 100

7/26/2011 6:09:38 PM

around 100 miles a month, give or take.

7/26/2011 6:09:44 PM

about 30 on week days. i try to keep it close to 0 on the weekends.

7/26/2011 8:02:54 PM

About .5 miles to the office.

But I average probably 20-25 miles a day or so total.

7/26/2011 8:06:26 PM

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7/26/2011 8:43:51 PM