Annual mileage for reps

arsebiscuits82

Now that the car is parked up more or less for the next 2 weeks, I looked at the odometer today.
241 got in April with 61,000km done since then plus I had another 22k km done from January to April.

So total for the year 83,000km or thereabouts. I’m on the road 4 or 5 days a week.

Anyone else doing distances like this for the year or even more?
just curious is all

colm reilly

Van ,parts country delivery driver .I average 10,000 km a month

elperello

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058385469/annual-mileage-for-reps

In a previous life I used to do to that sort of mileage.

Enjoy the break you've earned it.

Long term get into a different job.

That kind of driving is like banging your head off a wall. You only realise how bad it was when you stop doing it.

ted1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058385469/annual-mileage-for-reps

surely there’s a much more efficient use of your time.

If Covid thought us anything is that lists of meetings can be done remotely.

You are doing an average 360km per working day. Thats losing around 4 hours work per day

Buddy Bubs

Must be a more efficient way of doing your job. Sounds very outdated to be honest.

What do you think yourself? Could you do your job without driving so much? I commute every day, go home for lunch sometimes and use the car a bit for work as well as all my personal leisure driving and you're still at 4 times my annual mileage.

arsebiscuits82

I don’t mind the driving at all, usually on calls most of the time so the journeys are grand. As soon as I was young enough to reach the pedals I was driving something around the yard at home.

I cover half the country in the construction industry so site visits are part and parcel of the job. Some calls can be done remotely but the majority are site visits.

Even though I drive more now I actually do less hours than did in my last role.

It’s great in a way as I get to see parts of Ireland I never would and meet loads of people from all over, plus I know all the good hotels if needed and all the good eating spots around.

It’s not for everyone but I’m more curious as to average mileage for reps, not complaining one bit about the job, bloody love it!

Buddy Bubs

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122987541#Comment_122987541

If you've to see sites in person in makes sense. There's reps (i call them project managers as they're not really trying to sell anything) in our job we would install our products in customer sites and would need to be scoped, measured etc

I've done a decent analysis on their driving patterns because I'm trying to get an electric fleet as much as i can. I've a full spreadsheet of daily mileages, total mileage etc

One guy is replacing his kodiaq for an enyaq in January and in 3.5 years he covered 180k km, he would be about the highest he takes opportunities to get out of office as much as he can. Despite the high overall mileage he would only really go outside the range of the vehicle once a month or so.

Another is in a bmw x5 and has no interest in changing its a 171 and has 250k kms on it he would be selective in visiting prefers to be in the office a bit more. He can't really get a new x5 as the price is ridiculous now so he's holding on as long as he can he loves it.

So neither approaching your mileage really, but the bulk of the work would be in greater Dublin area, we have other guys looking after munster and ulster but they tend to let our service crews do site checks for them.

Our engineers that install, repair, service can do up to 200k km in vans in 3 years in large vans like Renault master/traffic, different sizes of transits. Some of them would visit milultiple customer sites in a day. At that stage the vans are invariably acting up and a bit unreliable and we replace most of them every 3 years.

We are a long way from making this work with electric vans so just the company cars for now.

vandriver

I do 50,000 km a year as a full time taxi driver .

romperstomper

I test drove a 22 plate XC90 during the summer that was fresh off the boat. I thought there was a mistake (dash is a display), but the salesman said no that's normal for UK rep fleet. Needless to say, I didn't proceed

extra-ordinary_

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122988654#Comment_122988654

(You left out what mileage the salesman said was normal for UK rep fleet)

romperstomper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122988683#Comment_122988683

Hah! 190,000kms in a 33 month old car

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122988711#Comment_122988711

I’ve bought 3 year old UK company cars with over 250k km’s on the clock

romperstomper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122989021#Comment_122989021

Discount for the mileage or not because that's considered "expected"?

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122989139#Comment_122989139

Of course there was a massive discount compared to lower mileage cars. To be honest OP probably should have known the mileage wasn’t a mistake as I’m sure it was reflected in the asking price..

190,000km+ isn’t to be expected of any 3 year old car, hence why they need to be discounted in order to sell.

romperstomper

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122989289#Comment_122989289

Spiel I heard from the XC90 dealer was that rep/fleet cars (typically German hybrids) do big mileage in UK and then get sold on. So I'm my case the dealer was looking for 68k for a 22 plate XC90 with 190,000km. When I asked why not lower cos of mileage, I was told that as a fleet/rep car that the mileage was to be expected (normal) hence minimal discount. There was further guff about UK motorways being less burdensome vs Irish motorways and even more guff about fleet cars getting serviced every service interval on the button and therefore his 190,000km car was actually a better buy than an non rep car with 90,000km

Damien360

Been hitting 60k per year every year for the last 3. Used to be a steady 50k per year. Mix of Skoda and Seats. Currently VW Passat I bought myself to get away from fleet and BIK. Lots of hotel stays to keep mileage lower (down to 45k).

Just on above post and servicing. Leasing has always pushed the service interval to every 30k and then it gets the bare minimum. Talk to the dealer and they will tell you that they only do oil and oil filter. You never get cabin filter in my experience. Air filter not common either. Tyres are pushed to 2mm before change. Main dealer until 100k reached. I have colleagues in the UK doing similar and their servicing is never main dealer and they get sent to Halfords for servicing. I wouldn't touch a UK fleet car with a barge pole.

Bigus

Non rep related, but , Years ago I was offered a 6 year old Micra with 333,000 miles on it , an elderly non drinking couple ( in their 80’s ) used to go to every ballroom dance in Ireland and drive home to Dublin every night .

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122989318#Comment_122989318

I mean the dealer isn’t entirely wrong. Yes the motorway mileage they incur doesn’t cause a lot of wear and tear, and yes they will come with full service history. But the mileage between services is usually high like 20,000 miles otherwise they would be getting serviced 3 times a year.

You get all types of cars coming from the UK with really high mileage. Its not just big hybrid SUV’s. Either way they need to be priced lower than a low mileage example otherwise no one will buy them. They are bought very cheap at UK auctions. This is pre Brexit but I used to buy 3 year old Golfs with 150k miles for about £5000 from British Car Auctions

The Royal Scam

I work all over the country servicing equipment on customer sites so can only physically visit. Average for me is 80k a year. Get a new car every 4 years and just about to order a new Superb Estate. Somedays it can be tiring but if you love your job and what you do it can really make it easier, even the big milage. I have been with the same company doing similar work but very varied, on a lot of very high end technical equipment for 23 yrs so over my lifetime it is a lot of milage.

User1998

I think I would prefer to drive for 8 hours a day rather then work for 8 hours with over an hours commute either end

Glenomra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122987541#Comment_122987541

Interesting, re the discovery of places that you have not visited previously. As a matter of interest, what places have surprised you…positively…I have enough of negative comments re Irish places.

L1011

Back in the day I was a field engineer rather than rep, and I had just under 200k km on an early (February I think) 2012 delivery Connect when I left the job in early November 2013. Roughly 10k/month. Was doing six days most weeks for the overtime, Sundays were €350 and there were plenty of those available.

Fleet company knew about the mileage, obviously they were doing the very regular servicing and presumably delighted with whatever overuse charges they could make. Had new wheel bearings, new driveshaft bearings and would very occasionally go in to limp mode for no identifiable reason; but was otherwise ridiculously reliable and not very worn looking or feeling.

When I left that job, a few weeks later Applegreen Rewards phoned to ask if I'd changed preferred filling station! I think GDPR might make that an unsuitable use of data but it hadn't come in yet. Must have been paying attention to their high rollers and suddenly saw me go from three tanks of diesel and multiple shop/deli visits a week to nothing overnight.

arsebiscuits82

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122998663#Comment_122998663

I don't be in places for long so don't really have good or bad experiences. I was in Thomastown there a few weeks back, never even heard of it before, thought it a nice part of the world.

It's more towns I'd normally never get a chance to see or would need to be on holidays to go to, the likes of Tralee, Listowel, Dingle, Ennis etc.

The more I be in certain towns, I figure out the good spot to eat or even stay over in if needs be. Spent a night in Wexford town last year, really liked it.