HGV1 Driver

Same here used to get on train to london, now 5 mins to work on the push bike (weather permitting). Scoobs for the weekends and holidays (next week good).

Jon.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I have contemplated doing an extremely long commute from Ireland to London

I'd probably only do it on a weekly basis but it is feasible as a daily

Leave home in Ireland @ 08:00, drive 40 mins to Derry Airport, catch 09:20 to Stansted, arrive 10:30 & be at work 11:30

Leave work @ 17:30 & fly 19:10 & I'd be home 21:00

So feasible but prefer not to. Those are really the times I leave now & generally return home too

JoeyDeacon

As part of my degree I had to do a year in industry and had a 70 mile round trip each day. My main memory of that year is sitting on the M25, looking at the time every 30 seconds thinking "**** i'm going to be late". Trouble is the Journey was so unpredictable that sometimes I would arrive half an hour early and the worst case was when I arrived 2 hours late.

I left the job at the earliest opportunity (I think I had to do 48 weeks so didn't even take holiday so I could leave earlier) and after being there a few months I was counting the days. I still remember driving home on the last day with a massive grin on my face feeling totally relaxed knowing I would never have to do it again. I actually drive over the M25 on my way to work everyday and when I see the motorway at a standstill it takes me back to when I was part of it.

I now have a 4.5 mile journey to work and wouldn't swap even if I was offered another 10 grand a year. It's not just the stress every day but also the fact that I was wasting over 2.5 hours a day travelling.

So does that give you any idea of how much I hated it?

[Edited by JoeyDeacon - 5/9/2002 2:10:57 PM]

carpet

It takes me 5 mins ( 2 miles )to get to work now, used to take an hour, and if I stayed with my other half at my old job it was 120 miles round trip ( near on 3 hours a day in the car - if it went well !! )

personally I love being near home, can nip home if nobody is watching ( not that I would ever think of doing that of course )

dont do it, you will hate it !!

just makes your week soooo much longer - I know its a trade off between living in a nice house / area, but you will be knackered !!
even going in for 7 and leaving at 3, what if something goes **** up at work and you have to work late, youre gonna be mightily p1ssed off, my mate used to try that, but binned it after a coupla weeks....

thats my 2 pence worth !

[Edited by carpet - 5/9/2002 2:48:27 PM]

John Catlin

Did 250 miles a day, plus travel afterI arrived.

6 miles to M4, 6 miles off M4, 113 in between going west. No real problem.

As I stopped doing this garage manager shook my hand and said how sorry he was to loose my custom.

Leave early at both ends and its not so bad.

Now only a round trip of 40 to 50 miles each day, all across country.

Most enjoyable.

All the best,

John Catlin

[Edited by John Catlin - 5/9/2002 8:26:22 PM]

Shark

Serious reply now

Thats a wopping 36800 miles a year (assuming a 48 week year). So thats about £3200 in diesel fuel alone. Also concider that a 80 miles journey has to take at least an hour, more like hour and a half. Thats 3 hours a day, or 15 hours a week

On a bad week you could spend 20+ hours getting to and from work

Sounds a bit much to me, esp if the journey involves M25/M1/M6 (J4-12) or any other bad motorways I don't know.

IMHO - don't do it.

David

Edited cos I forgot bank hols - only rough figures anyway

[Edited by Shark - 5/9/2002 9:12:23 PM]