Highest personal driving mileage years

[Max Rockatansky]

In conversation I had off forum the topic of who would drive the most this year came up.  During said conversation I noted that I have not dipped below 30,000 miles driven since 2009.  My highest mileage driven in any year was 2012 which was somewhere between 90,000-91,000 miles.  During 2012 I spent 156 nights on the road in hotels and put about 84,500 miles on my daily driver.  For context I worked over a region spanning five states at the time and it was rarely opportune to fly somewhere.  The second highest driving mileage year for me was about 68,000-70,000 in 2011 when I was at the same job.

What is everyone else's highest mileage years for driving?

[CtrlAltDel]

Well, you definitely have me beat. My last car I had for eight years, to the day, and put a total of 60,830 miles on it, for an average of about 7,603 a year, and I don't think I went over that by all that much at any point.

[7/8]

My highest mileage year in my own car is probably 2015, my estimate being ~13 000 km (~8000 mi). I was commuting daily to the University (30 km roundtrip) and had a roadtrip to Branson, MO that was about 3500 km.

[Big John]

1996 when I commuted 30 miles each way.

[jeffandnicole]

I never truly tracked my mileage, but I would put it around 40k - 45k. This would've been back around 1999 & 2000 driving to work, when my commute was 45 - 50 miles each way.  In 2001, after gas jumped from below a dollar to something expensive like $1.35 a gallon (those were the days), I started carpooling to work.

Somehow, 21 years later, that same carpool still exists.  It easily cuts my mileage to about 1/3 of what I would be driving with work if I didn't carpool.

[US 89]

Mine is almost certainly 2021. Drove from Atlanta to Salt Lake and back, as well as round trips from Atlanta to Nashville, Durham, Birmingham, and a whole bunch more smaller day trips.

[Bruce]

Did over 30,000 miles in 2021, with a few roadtrips and tons of work driving.

Hoping to go well over that in 2022.

[SectorZ]

I had a couple 30-35K years due to long commutes and lots of gallivanting around in the early 2000's. Having a Honda Civic that got low-40's highway gas mileage with gas being sub-$1.50/gallon was nice.

For both 2020 and 2021 I drove my own car less mileage than I rode both of my bicycles.

[ftballfan]

2015 was my highest as I was driving from Manistee to Ludington and back for work each day (roughly 60 miles round trip).

2022 will likely top it as I'm currently driving from Kentwood to Allegan and back for work each day (roughly 72 miles round trip). I started my Kentwood to Allegan commute at the end of March 2021 and I've put close to 20,000 miles on my car since then (and that includes my car being in the shop for a couple of weeks)