How many miles did you drive this year?

[jgillott]

Getting my 1/2 ton inspected today and couldn't believe how many miles I drove this year. Almost exactely 16.5K on it and 12K so far on the '07 for a grand total of 28,500 miles. I expected to drive more this year, but I didn't realize it would be this much.

I know that many of you do a lot more miles than I do. How many have you gone this year?

 

[mwilson]

Bought Hoopty at the end of April with 95,000 miles on the clock. Did the second 10,000 mile service Sunday afternoon with 115,968 showing. I do 35,000 miles per year at least just getting to work and back. Probably 5,000 miles more on the two CTD trucks annually.

Seems like the trip gets longer every week....

 

[jgillott]

Your trip sounds a lot like what my brother-in-law does. I think he averages something like 130 miles a day.

 

[Deleted member 995608]

When I was shoeing horses for a living, I averaged 36K miles per year. I don't keep track anymore but I'm guessing it's about 20k now as I drive to northern Ca quite a bit.

 

[mwilson]

Your trip sounds a lot like what my brother-in-law does. I think he averages something like 130 miles a day.

That's just about the same, depending on odometer variances between all of the vehicles I have used in 19 years it is between 124 and 130 per day.

 

[jhenderson]

I purchased my truck in April of 04. I've averaged just under 39,000 a year sense then. Add on about 20,000 for the Jeep and GTO my wife drives.

 

[mwilson]

The woods......

 

[GAmes]

Working on the cure for white line fever. Only 82,000 miles this year.

 

[jgillott]

That's just about the same, depending on odometer variances between all of the vehicles I have used in 19 years it is between 124 and 130 per day.

I work out of 3 different buildings now so my drive can vary from 40 miles round trip up to a little over 100. None of the drives are bad thankfully.

 

[jgillott]

Working on the cure for white line fever. Only 82,000 miles this year.

What was your highest year?

 

[EGroeneveld]

24,000 miles a year on my dually. My work commute is 10 miles round trip. Lots of weekend play miles and 4-5K of business miles.

 

[mwilson]

I work out of 3 different buildings now so my drive can vary from 40 miles round trip up to a little over 100. None of the drives are bad thankfully.

I don't have a bad drive traffic wise. The weather is a whole other story. Raining and 33 degrees, starting to freeze on the windshield.

 

[GHarman]

In the last 16 months I have averaged 2125 miles per month on the 2010 "Ruby-Sue" Forester.
My wife has about 16,000 miles total in that same time period, or another 1000 miles per month on
her car.

GregH

 

[GAmes]

What was your highest year?

The year of Katrina, 2005. 107k, slightly higher than 2004, 101k.

 

[Bob V]

On my cars/truck, not to much, but add on driving my wife crazy, lots!

 

[Bill Stockard]

I guess we're the "low mileage winners"... roughly 3,100 miles on my wife's Honda and just under 1k miles on my truck so far this year. My commute the last 5 years before retirement was 90 miles round trip plus business travel at work which ran up the miles. I don't miss it!

Bill

 

[fest3er]

I average about 2500 miles a year lately. Highest year was about 58000 back in the mid '80s. Average over the past 34 years is about 18000/year. Total miles put on my own vehicles is just over 600000--289000 on my Dodge P/U since I got it new 10/97. (I used to like driving around the country. Now, I despise travelling.)

 

[BIGNASTY]

Lot's o Miles!!

 

[Wayne M.]

Back when I was commuting to Manhattan, I'd average about 16-18,000 a year. Now my world is about the size of a small county, and the hamster wheelin I do now is about half that. Ditto for my wife. We do log time due to traffic though.
I work with a bunch who commute far. A small faction do NYC to the Pocono mtns in Penna. It's ~85 mi trip. The mileage winner is one guy with an early 2000's Chevy cobalt. Last check in the summer he had over 400,000 on it. I know he does hub bearings in a lunch hour and gets 6 weeks avg. he just keeps changing them and sending nasty emails to the various manufacturers.

 

[Jim W]

Since both I and the DW are retired now we do not put on the mileage like we use too. I just put a little under 10,000 miles on the truck this year and 8,700 on the wife’s VW. 3,600 miles of this year’s mileage on the truck; was our trip out east this year pulling the camper.

Jim W.