How long is your daily work commute?

How long is your daily work commute?

  • less than 5 minutes

    Votes: 10 11.6%

  • 5-10 minutes

    Votes: 7 8.1%

  • 10-15 minutes

    Votes: 7 8.1%

  • 15-20 minutes

    Votes: 13 15.1%

  • 20-25 minutes

    Votes: 2 2.3%

  • 25-30 minutes

    Votes: 7 8.1%

  • 30-40 minutes

    Votes: 16 18.6%

  • 40-50 minutes

    Votes: 9 10.5%

  • 50+ minutes

    Votes: 15 17.4%
  • Total voters
    86
9.8 miles, takes 20 to 25 minutes in the morning, 15 each way at lunch and 20 on the way home. In the morning I have three school zones with idiot crossing gaurds. The first 5 miles are 2 lane 55mph, there are 18 stoplights in the last 4.8 and Fayetteville has them all synchronized red.

Mom commuted from north Fayetteville to downtown Raleigh everyday for 15 years before Duke (progress energy) let her work from home.

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~27 miles from my place to uptown Charlotte. Best ever was probably a hair under 40 mins, sometimes it's as bad as 1.5 hrs. Usually about 50 min to and 60 min back. There a few different routes, but the choices are A.) shitty, B.) real shitty, or C.) fuck this I'm going home.
 
.7 miles to one job, 4.8 to the other. If I leave my primary and go to the secondary it's 5.5 between the two. 10 days a month to primary job, 5 to 7 days a month to secondary job.

Duane
 
8 miles down 16 from Mountain Island Lake to 85. Some days its 15 mins or this morning it was 45-1hr...
 
5-7 miles, all country roads except the few back roads to my shop (and it's on my side of town)

Used to run 75-200 miles a day when I was doing service calls.. now it's all at one place
 
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Use to be a guy here in my office that lives in North Wilkesboro. Grew up there. It was all he knew. His commute was 55 miles driving directly into the sun on 421 to come to work in Winston. And 55 miles home driving directly in the sun.

I mean, if you add all that time up over 20 years.....
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basically me and I think it blows chunks...sober chunks. Reading some of you guys makes me cringe and I thought mine sucked. Been doin this pretty steady for 8 years. Before I commuted ten minutes.

Once I commuted to third gear! Two turns not counting my drive. Young and married was some good dinner breaks....
 
25 miles and 50min, including taking my kids to school.

17miles and 25 min if I don't.

My company is moving from hickory to NW Charlotte which will change the commute to 30mi/~40min without dropping of the boy.

Not sure if I'm going to make the commute yet.
 
I drive around 50k miles each year. My commute is anywhere from ten minutes one day to 6 hours another, as my territory is from Asheville to Greensboro to Charlotte. But I make my schedule and sometimes do overnights.
 
I'm right at 30 minutes one way... And I end up driving more during the work day. All said I'm between 40 and 50k a year. Luckily not my vehicle or fuel. Lots of listening to music and plotting what to do in my free time.
 
71 miles each way. Been as high as 90, but not less than 65. Since 2006.

Oh yeah, that’s I77 through Mooresville twice a day. Elkin to Charlotte and back home.
 
CasterTroy said:
Use to be a guy here in my office that lives in North Wilkesboro. Grew up there. It was all he knew. His commute was 55 miles driving directly into the sun on 421 to come to work in Winston. And 55 miles home driving directly in the sun.

I mean, if you add all that time up over 20 years.....



The older I get, the more valuable my time is. I've passed up MANY offers that involved D.C. Charlotte, RTP that were for considerably more, but there's a "cost" associated with everything. I like living where, in every direction when I live my neighborhood I have to drive past a cow pasture, but yet I'm only 12 minutes from anything I want.
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I did the east/west, sun in the eyes for years @ a couple of 10 hr. jobs that started @ 7am. It was nice for some of the year w the clouds and sunrise/sunsets every day. Driving into the blinding sun when the time changed sucked and I'm sure my eyes have suffered from it.
 
My old job included driving from Lexington to:

Asheboro on Monday
Taylorsville on Tuesday
Asheville/Arden on Wednesday
Charlotte or Greenville on Thursday
Wilmington or Ashboro on Friday

I had a company truck, but it got old after a while.
 
Old job was 25 miles, and would take 27-50 minutes in the morning, and 35-45 minutes in the afternoon.

New job is 3 miles further on almost the same route. Takes about 4 extra minutes in the morning, and 10-35 extra minutes in the afternoon :shaking:
 
mommucked said:
I did the east/west, sun in the eyes for years
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I commuted to college (NCA&TSU from Winston) for 5 years. Well, WS to the OTHER side of GSO, back to Rural hall to UPS for my job, then back to south WS every day (about 115 miles a day) with the sun problem. Swore I'd never live west of where I worked
 
3.5 miles, 5 min's there and back. It would be quicker but I have three stop signs along the way. The problem with being so close is that there is no way to make up a minute or two alng the way if you get a little bit of a late start. I floor it to 80 in the straights or poke along at 45 and my total time difference might be 45 seconds. :lol: my biggest hangup is when I'm a few min late leaving and I don't beat the school bus.
 
About 3-4mins here. Unless there's a hurricane and the creek floods, like the other month, then it's about 10mins.
 
I'm about 10 min. Now ,was 30 min for almost 20 years , and 50 min for about 1 year ...that got old fast...

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Commute is 12.5 miles door to door. But the last 3 miles is on an army base so it's slow. Takes average about 22-23 mins with no traffic (I come in late and leave late). During the main commuting time it could be 35 to even 45 mins. Fawk that.

IMO I wouldn't want any less than 15 mins. I need that time in the morning to wake up and get the juices in the noodle flowing, and get time to think about anything else before hitting the door at work. Then in the evening I use it as sort of decompression time to finish off whatever I was thinking about or doing at the end of the day, and by the time I hit the house and see the wife and kids, I've forgotten all about and ready to be Dad.
And it's juuuust far enough away to not be too inconvenient to run in at other times.
 
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