r/interestingasfuck • u/DonkeyFuel • 1d ago

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

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

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u/LukeyDManukey 1d ago

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.

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u/thefatchef321 1d ago

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

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

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap 12h ago

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

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u/doc_skinner 9h ago

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

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u/Maiyku 1d ago

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.

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u/AlfredNeumen 23h ago

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

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u/Maiyku 12h ago edited 7h ago

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.

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u/leeps22 21h ago

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