Driving

[Doomer]

I drive between 30 and 40k per year work miles. I'm getting sick of fighting traffic every day. Wish I could afford a Chauffer.
Anybody else get tired of driving?

 

[teknoid]

In one of my past jobs I averaged 1500 mile per week, sometimes more. It was an every other Friday chore to get the oil changed (every 3000). When I turned in my last company truck it had 96,000 on it and I hadn't driven it a year yet (just under). It was routine to get up at 3:30, drive to Hilton Head Island (about 7.5 hours from central FL) do a 30 - 45 minute service call and drive back in the same day.

Yes it royally sucked. No I dont miss that job. What REALLY sucked was that I was salaried and never saw a penny for the hours and hours of overtime I put in behind the wheel.

 

[Doomer]

I do work for a Co. that occationally requires me to make a 220 mile round trip to another city. First time I billed them for travel time they balked. They didn't come right out and say they considered travel time to be MY time but that was the drift I got. In the end I told them, either pay or find another sucker. They paid and haven't questioned it again.