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just curious ,I know a lot of us are not just farmers and have a day job,my drive is 36 miles one way,not to bad!
 
5 miles each way, for the last 20 years- shortest I've ever had. Before that, 5 miles by road, 35 minutes on a boat, and then a 20 minute walk, each way.
 
JD2,

I work a part-time job (about 4 hours) in the afternoon. My commute is right at 25 miles each way, but I have to go through Franklin, TN to get to my job, so it usually takes the better part of an hour each way.

If there were any way I could afford to do so, I'd just farm full-time.

Tom in TN
 
12 miles to the office, I mostly stay around the office. Could be sent 15 mile radius from the office. When I first started out, could have been a two and a half hour trip down South, or a two hour trip up North. Now I leave that to the younger guys.....
 
In the summer it's 25 miles out to work, I cut lawns and do landscape maintenance, so we drive from
House to house, about 75 miles a day. Now that I'm off for the winter it's 6 miles round trip to the farm and bac, but in that short ride I still see all kinds of idiots!
 
Farm shop is just over a mile (don't go there much anymore); woodworking shop is about 150 ft (go there most days); bed is about 50 ft (go there every night); office is about 15 ft; recliner is HOME; I live in it.
 
50 feet from the kitchen to my office.

However, once I leave my office, it's not uncommon to cover several hundred miles in a day.
 
Just depends on where I need to be for the day. Sometimes it's about 100 feet down to the shop, others it's 75 feet to the truck and then how ever many miles it turns into to the machine that's broken down.
 
46 miles each way. Glad I drive a VW diesel. Has 361, 000 miles on it but still gets 50 miles per gallon. My back up car is also a VW diesel has an automatic so the mileage on that TDI is only about 45. That car has 370, 000 miles on it.
 
yep, about same here except my paper is at the end
of drive, about 600 ft. golf cart makes that easy
though. biggest job of the day; having to feed cat
before i can get my coffee.
 
Depends on where we are working.Usually try to keep it within a 60 mile radius.Most commutes are about 35 miles.

Vito
 
Mike,

I also have to ask what your job was.

Did you drive to a ferryboat landing, take the ferry to the city and then walk to your office through glassed in skywalks?

My other guess is that you worked as a fire tower watcher in the middle of a forest.
 
I work road constuction, if I'm work at the shop doing repairs, I'm 40 miles. But when I'm out of town working I've drove as far as 16 hours to the site, then 75 miles one way on some jobs. I have put on as much as 47000 miles in one year. Trucks nearing 250,000 miles in the 5 years I've run this one.
 
Right now about 429 miles, but I only come home on weekends. Soon as the house gets sold we'll move closer to the plant.
 
Right now about 429 miles, but I only come home on weekends. Soon as the house gets sold we'll move closer to the plant.
 
Mine used to be 30 miles each way, then I retired. Now my commute is about 50 feet from my bed to the kitchen.
 
If I don't get 500+ miles every day someone's got some splainin to do. But then I'm paid by the mile so....Drove the least amount of miles in 8 years last year, only 121,112 miles.
 
Been retired for 4 years now, but my commute was 5 miles each way, about 8 minutes, one stop sign and one blinker light. I usually went to work at 6am, sometimes I even saw a car on the way! Now my commute is 250' to my shop, but I have to go get the paper first(5 miles).
 
15' to the coffee pot then 16' to the recliner.
Summer time 150' to the barn then on to the next haying job.
Winter time 150' to the barn then on to feed the cattle. Before I retired it used to be 34 mile round trip. Took about an hour each way.
 
I'm a contractor so I go however far I have to. Don't travel far anymore but back in the 80's there was no work here and some very good paying work to the north. We had some military contracts at two bases. One base was 89 miles one way. Had to go through or around Chicago to get there. Finished those contracts and got a bunch of work at another base even farther to the north that was right at 100 miles from my house. We made the commute to those bases 5-6 days a week for about 4 1/2 years. One of our employees lived another 45 miles south of me!
 
130 miles round trip from God"s country in north central Texas to downtown cowtown. But in May I"m hanging up the badge and ballistic vest and staying on the farm!!

27 years at it and I"m too old and broke up to play that game any longer!!
 
Most days about 25ft from bed to office except on Wednesday's when the boss wants me to come to the office. Then it is 30 miles about 35 minutes one way. Working from home most of the time is nice
 
I work out of my home, but I cover all of MN, eastern Dakotas, Northern IA, and some of WI.

31k miles in 9 months. I am only on the road from WED- FRI each week. I get books from the library on CD all the time to keep me from speeding.
 
Guys, Depending on the town I am going to on any given day Round trip 250 to 300 /day / week.
This yr bouncing off 60K total.
Later,
John A.
 
I'm a lawyer. We lived on Bainbridge Island, west of Seattle. You had everything right, except the glassed-in skywalks- I just walked up Western Avenue from the ferry terminal, to my office at the north end of the Pike Place Market.

That got old pretty fast, for both wife and I, so after a couple of years we moved back to Chehalis, 100 miles south of Seattle.
 
Some days down one flight of stairs to my "office".

Some days about 8-10 miles round trip in one direction or the other - depending which office. Never have to go if there is a blizzard or ice storm, then I just work from home.
 
27 miles 5 days a week sometimes 6 one way miles driveway to shop door if we can keep the current pension only have 18 yrs left good news is they are gonna move the shop on the other side of town it is in so should save a lot of time and about 4 miles
 

Mine's 45 miles from my garage to company garage. Luckily the wife works here too so we only pay gas for one commute, two salaries.
 
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