How many miles a year do you drive?

[Clifton Tesh]

I'm somewhere in the 100,000 to 120,000 a year range.

I get a new truck roughly every 3 years and they're usually close to 400,000 miles when I retire them. However, this past year I didn't even break 100,000 until 3 weeks after having my truck for a year.

 

[Meriweather]

about 7000.....retired

 

[Dan Murphy]

I'm somewhere in the 100,000 to 120,000 a year range.

I get a new truck roughly every 3 years and they're usually close to 400,000 miles when I retire them. However, this past year I didn't even break 100,000 until 3 weeks after having my truck for a year.

Tractor truck?

 

[Clifton Tesh]

Tractor truck?

Yes sir

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yes sir

Lots of driving. Amazing how those tractors just keep on going and going.

 

[Clifton Tesh]

Lots of driving. Amazing how those tractors just keep on going and going.

Yeah and let me tell you, we do not baby these things.

If they built cars the way they build our tractors, the automotive industry would die

I was a diesel mechanic for years before I started driving and it was not uncommon to see trucks with a million miles on the original engine. The transmission had a couple of rebuilds but the engine (especially old Detroit's and cats) would just keep going and going like a battery powered bunny

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yeah and let me tell you, we do not baby these things.

If they built cars the way they build our tractors, the automotive industry would die

I was a diesel mechanic for years before I started driving and it was not uncommon to see trucks with a million miles on the original engine. The transmission had a couple of rebuilds but the engine (especially old Detroit's and cats) would just keep going and going like a battery powered bunny

For sure, Clifton. They are amazing machines.

 

[tvguy]

Insurance on our Camry went up $100 a year because we got bumped from the 5,000 to 7,500 mile category to the 7,500 to 10,000 annual category thanks to a 3,600 mile vacation by car we took last year. As I posted up thread, California law requires insurance companies to get your odometer reading once a year and must consider how many miles you drive each year in setting rates.