What is a reasonable distance to travel on days , I did 16 miles for years and that was ok , did 50 miles for 2 months , too far , would 30 be maximum
Guess it’s whatever floats your boat. At my old place we used to have people travel 80ish miles each way for day work and for those who worked away for days some used to travel 250 miles to work then 250 home again. They all said the money was worth it.
toonsy:
Guess it’s whatever floats your boat. At my old place we used to have people travel 80ish miles each way for day work and for those who worked away for days some used to travel 250 miles to work then 250 home again. They all said the money was worth it.
I did 30 each way miles for 28 years. I’m not missing that at all. I had two drivers that lived 180 and 240 miles away that did some tramping.
Motorway miles or town miles. Half an hour will get you vastly different distances on each.
For me personally, I’d not travel more than half an hour each way. Had my fill of mega miles just for work.
So many different variables to consider here, wage, type of work, hours, how much work there is in your local area etc. At the end of the day, if it’s the right job, then you will make sacrifices. Having said that, if you’re doing the journey every day, it’s always a good idea to make sure you can still get a decent amount of rest after long shifts
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Depends what sort of job it is, agree generally about 1/2 an hour being a reasonable target, maybe a bit more for a good job and less for a run of the mill job, again so much depends on where in the country you live.
When I 1st passed my test about 10 years ago.
I travelled from near Manchester airport to bamber bridge for a while every day. Then to skelmesdalde. For about 12 months.
Only did it as was a new driver only places agency could get me work.
Looking back can’t believe I did it if honest.
Now have 15 mins there and about 30 mins back depending on finish time.
dozy:
What is a reasonable distance to travel on days , I did 16 miles for years and that was ok , did 50 miles for 2 months , too far , would 30 be maximum
For most of human history, about 30 minutes or so each way daily is the maximum people are willing to tolerate on a sustained basis.
It’s not distance per se that counts, but time, effort, and cost. On foot, 30 minutes buys you only about a mile to two.
30 miles is about the max if you have a straight run at it on the motorway with light traffic in a comfortable commuter car. If the working hours are standard office hours, you’d probably be lucky to get 10 miles by car.
Takes me 4 minutes,if I catch the 2 sets of lights I pass through…on green.
I was just thinking of notts , Leicester , Peterborough , all apx 30 mlles from Grantham , p/ bro straight down a1 , notts a52 , Leicester, Melton or a52 / a46 , I was wondering how far people commute on days , 16 miles on a1 was ok , I’d like local but heard nothing , one I fancied I’m now not sure ,
Just giving a few more options
you want to work … and earn ?
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toonsy:
Guess it’s whatever floats your boat. At my old place we used to have people travel 80ish miles each way for day work and for those who worked away for days some used to travel 250 miles to work then 250 home again. They all said the money was worth it.
I wonder if the guy doing 80 miles each way every day was taking 9 hour reduced rests.
Just work out how much genuine rest or sleep he was getting between getting out of his cab and back in next day.
I know the ‘‘I only need 6 hours kip’’ heroes will disagree 
, but day work should be 11 hours daily rest minimum imo.
A bit of ‘‘genuine’’ Health & Safety for a change.
Used to do daily commutes of 1 hour each way over something like 30ish miles if I remember rightly. Combination of country lane, motorway, and city. But working between 9 and 10 hour shifts.
Currently have a 10 minute commute and wouldn’t go back to more unless the money was a HUGE amount more.
Plenty of people doing 8/9 hour days do 1 hour commutes which is fine, but agree with rob for us truckers you shouldn’t be having a 9 hour rest and including a 1 hour each way commute on that. If your having 9s off then half an hour absolute max. I’d say a 15 hour day plus 2 hours commuting is totally irresponsible on both the driver and employers part. If the employer is aware (and they should be taking steps to know) that a driver has a 2 hour drive in a car bolted on to the day then they should be making sure they don’t have that driver doing more than 12 hours, certainly not over 13.
I have a rule of 100 miles a week for a multitude of reasons. Time, fuel, wear and tear etc. So for me it’d be 10 miles each way for days, or 50 each way for tramping
My current commute is an easy 12 miles / 20mins
I would probably draw the line at 30 miles / 1hr, even then if it was less than a 9-10hr shift, or paying less than £100 gross I would think I couldn’t justify the cost of commuting and wouldn’t take the shift
I suppose it also depends on the area you live in , I live quite rurally so am quite limited to options without travelling extra few miles on the commute
I’ve travelled from Stamford to Corby every working day since 1999 (various jobs), know every bump in the A43 between the two. It can be a pain when my route in the morning takes me back the way I’ve just come - and especially when I drive almost past my front door on the way back to Corby after a long day. When Argos in Corby closed we were offered the choice of seeing out our time and taking redundancy or transferring to Magna Park, Lutterworth. Quite a few of the Corby-based lads went to MP but I didn’t want a 50-mile schlep before and after a day’s driving.
I work standard office hours and my 35 mins (25 miles) daily commute ■■■■■■ me off no end. More so knowing I could go back to driving and get work 10 mins from my door.
When I started work in a factory it was a 2 hour bus commute each way involving 3 bus routes and two changes and almost the whole of the 281 route from Surbiton to Hounslow as part of that.
While my next job was only 15 minutes away by car but had to work longer hours for less money.
While night trunk commuting was great when usually finished before 5 am.Until speed limiters and late running times meant not only hitting morning commuter traffic on the M1 or M40 and M25 getting back to the depot but even worse on the way home with the car.IE a 4-5 am finish is a totally different type of commute over an equivalent distance by car to a 7 am + finish at least anywhere near London.The former could be 30 minutes the latter could be almost 2 hours.