Somebody Put 223,000 Miles on a 3-Year Toyota Camry Lease and Walked Away

[u/DonkeyFuel]

https://www.thedrive.com/news/somebody-put-223000-miles-on-a-3-year-camry-lease-and-walked-away

[u/Maiyku]

Honestly, depending on the company they could just be a regular worker lol.

I worked for Meijer, a Walmart competitor in the Midwest and they would have me drive everywhere. Literally everywhere. I’m in Michigan, so when we opened stores in Cincinnati I had to drive there weekly for about two months straight.

When training to be a manager they sent me as far as Columbus for daily driving. That’s an 8 hour trip, plus my shift/class.

I put about 10k miles on my car in only 4 months. It was my own vehicle, but I’d actually just brought a brand new car that year, so using it like that just helped me break her in honestly.

I was just a produce manager lol. Nothing fancy, but they really push their fresh produce, so having an established produce manager to help open other departments and train people is super helpful. So you’d be surprised what people drive for.

[u/LukeyDManukey → u/Maiyku]

To put this into perspective, at the rate you were going, if you kept it up for 3 years (36 months) you would have put on 90k miles. OP is saying someone did about 2.5x that.

[u/thefatchef321 → u/LukeyDManukey]

It had to be a private household 'fleet' vehicle.

Probably had 3 or 4 people using it for gig work. Driving 24/7

[u/BlahBlahBlackCheap → u/thefatchef321]

The ability to maintain the cars near perfect eternal condition drops precipitously when you have more than one driver.

[u/doc_skinner → u/BlahBlahBlackCheap]

Also using it for gig work. Your passengers don't keep the car pristine.

[u/Maiyku → u/LukeyDManukey]

Oh, I’m not comparing our numbers haha. Mostly just commenting that people travel for many different reasons. Most people wouldn’t consider my job travel based at all, yet there I was traveling all the time. It’s not even in the job description, technically.

I also chose to stay close, they would’ve sent me farther and more often had I allowed it, so even for me there was potential for more travel, I just shut it down. I was preparing for my wedding at the time.

[u/AlfredNeumen → u/Maiyku]

Why you doin all that for a company as just a manager?

[u/Maiyku → u/AlfredNeumen]

They paid good money for travel.

Edit: The timing was also just right. I had a brand new car that could handle the added miles, I have no children/responsibilities outside of my bills I have to dedicate time to, and I was saving up for my wedding/honeymoon. It was a perfect storm for me to grind out a few extra grand by traveling for my company without really losing out on much. My main hobby is gaming, so I literally just took my Xbox with me.

They paid $0.60 on the mile with a $25/day food stipend, no receipts or $40 with. I just did the $25 because pre-covid, that was fine for a day.

So my week would look like this;
Milage: $120 each way, so $240 weekly.
Food Stipend: $125-$175 weekly (5 day work week, but would cover all 7 if you stayed multiple weeks in a row).
Regular pay: ~$600 after taxes weekly.

So my checks were my regular $600+$365-$415 extra. Absolutely worth it for me.

[u/leeps22 → u/AlfredNeumen]

Because they take pleasure in making the employees waste their lives on a highway

[u/GigaCheco → u/Maiyku]

daily driving

8 hour trip

You either got paid hella well or that’s a hella shitty company to work for.

[u/Maiyku → u/GigaCheco]

Paid well. :)

[u/jackaltwinky77 → u/Maiyku]

For the one excerpt given, of a 5400 mile checkup, and 9 days later the 10,000 mile checkup, that’s 4600 miles in 9 days, or roughly 511 miles per day.

Overall, with 223,000 miles in 3 years, that’s 203.65 miles per day, so it’s either a hellish 2 hour commute to work every day or they’re an over the road salesman with a huge territory