Is 100 miles a day too far to commute?

Five_Star said:
I'm happy about the dual carriageway section of the A19 and the A1 (although it can get very busy) its certainly preferable to the single carriageway congestion around York.
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Tbh the A1 isn't all that bad - my parents' shop is off the A59 and my dad is down there in the early morning (5am) and my mum is there for half 8/9am and it takes the same amount of time give or take a couple of minutes. It takes me considerably less time whenever I go, but that's another matter ;)

You can always get a nice clear run down the old A1 (A168) from Dishforth though, or if not it's pretty much straight so plenty of overtaking opportunities :cool:

The A59 into York can be a ***** though if there's a tractor/accident/roadworks/muppetdoing35mphonaniceclearday!

Could you not drive to a different train station and train it in from there? Although I don't know anything about train fares/parking costs at stations so it might not be viable - but I think Thornaby, Yarm and Middlesbrough are all on the line to York via Northallerton & Thirsk. Just a thought :)
 
100 mile round trip is laughable that anyone would consider it to me personally. I complain enough about my 40 mile a day round trip.
 
I do 60 miles a day but each way only takes 35-40 mins as it is almost all dual carriageway and fortunately almost no traffic... even that is a bit of a ballache really..
 
And I do my 60 mile day round trip with no fuel allowance! for those that are saying 40p a mile, if im going to a customer site fair enough yes 40p a mile but not when im in the office which is pretty much all the time
 
Jonnycoupe said:
I went permie out of desperation last year! :p

Was straight out as soon as a contract role came up in April :cool: back to the DarkSide!
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Problem for contracting for me is the long hours, high stress and lack of job security. Sure you make a lot of money, but I'd rather make a bit less and have an easier day and more free time.

Didn't work out so well in my last job, but that's all over now, thankfully.

DJMK4 said:
And I do my 60 mile day round trip with no fuel allowance! for those that are saying 40p a mile, if im going to a customer site fair enough yes 40p a mile but not when im in the office which is pretty much all the time
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If you are officially home based (and if you're a contractor then you are by definition) then you should still be claiming 40p per mile.
 
That's not true. If your contract states you are home based primarily then yes you can claim for all travel mileage. If your contract states you work in a specific office, for the majority of your contract, then you cannot claim for miles to that office.
Also, im sure that you cannot claim (should not ;) ) for the first x miles of journey to another office - x being the equivalent miles to your normal office location.
 
I'm a company director so simply travelling from my registered place of business to my client's sites. Of course 40p a mile is paid by your own company so really it's only the Corp tax you save, circa 8p. Nice when that's all your car costs to run in fuel per mile though, atleast for the first 10k.
 
I used to commute from Hull to Leeds in a Nova 1.2 Merit and that was pretty close to the OED definition of Hell. I wasn't on a lot but unleaded was only 45p a litre at the time :P

The V70 was great for commuting, probably the best seats you can get in a car for distance commutes and a D5 with cruise control is effortless for motorway wafting.
 
Morba said:
Also, im sure that you cannot claim (should not ;) ) for the first x miles of journey to another office - x being the equivalent miles to your normal office location.
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I'm not sure if this has changed as at my current company if the journey is 10 miles or less, more than your normal commute, you can only claim for the excess mileage.

However if your journey is over 10 miles extra over your normal commute you can claim for the total miles you do.

Not saying that's the norm, but being public sector they are particularly anal with claims!
 
No way in hell would I do that. I have never lived more than 15-20 mins away from my work. The longest commute I ever did was 60 miles round trip to uni and back in my final year.
 
Now I've got a dilemma, I've been to two interviews, one north, one south and they both liked me! The drive was OK light traffic on the dual carriageways and more traffic around the city but it wasn't awful, both took about an hour fifteen. I even managed 34mpg in the ST!

Obviously if there is an accident or worse weather in winter its going to delay things but I'm still not sure I can see myself doing this five days a week.

Is it going to be easy to settle into a pattern for this? I can imagine you get used to it eventually. Its also pretty terrible that I'm complaining about being offered more than one job, I really am useless at some decisions.
 
Can't remember if I've already posted so apologies if I have. :)

I used to do around 60+ miles each way around 5+ years ago, did this for a good few years and at the time it never really annoyed me but the company did pay my fuel bills.

Now that I'm 5+ years older if I had to do the same I don't think I could, so much has changed including my patience and the roads being even more crowded.
 
I would not be keen on doing it at all. Not only is the financial cost quite large but time with family and friends is also wasted which is the bigger issues.

At the moment I have a 50mile round trip commute which is all dual carriageway and about 2miles into town. It's a pretty easy trip and I spend roughly £200 on petrol a month - although this does depend on whether I do 4 or 5 days a week.

However the situation is now changing and I'm going to be renting an office in the town next to me which will decrease my commute to a grand total of.... 8miles per day! Now after claiming VAT back on office costs and the difference on fuel useage, I'm going to be looking at total cost of being a smidge more than commuting. The bonus is I get at least an extra hour free per day because I have such a short commute and also will mean I can ride my pushbike into the office when the weather is nice, aces :)
 
I do around 25 miles each way, around 30 minutes in the morning and 45-60 minutes coming back due to the traffic build up, its about on the limit that i'm prepared to do, if I could find a job in my town that paid a few grand less i'd snap it up in an instant.
 
Yes it is imo.

I took a promotion earlier this year and went from single site warehouse management to being a general site manager.

As a result I'm doing nearly 800 miles a week and my opinion on motoring has changed vastly.

I now absolutely hate driving with a passion as all it means to me now is being stuck in traffic for long periods on boring motorway & A road's with the odd trip into our London head office (from Notts) chucked in for good measure.

Any fun that driving had for me has long since gone and I would love to go back to when I was working 4 miles from home.
 
I often do 160 miles a day. It's an absolute breeze and takes roughly 1h 20 each way.

However, I often know for what period of time I will be doing the commute for, if I had to do it everyday, permanently, then I would find it annoying
 
When working at ocuk I used to drive 90 miles a day, after fuel off etc, about £70 a week, I used to take home £160 a week.
 
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