07-27-2012, 05:44 AM
Owl, 75,000 miles driven in 6 months is 12,500 miles per month (just averaging here). Many car insurance companies will up your premium if you exceed 14,000 miles per YEAR.
Apart from truck drivers, I've never heard of anyone putting that much mileage on a car. I personally can't see this being recreational miles; almost always, you see this kind of mileage in a cross-country CDL driver situation. Bottom line is that averaging 12,500 miles a month when most people drive 14,000-16,000 miles a year should raise some eyebrows. That's a lot of road to cover, a lot of people to meet, and a lot of enemies to make.
I'm going to throw a bunch of numbers at you so hang in there with me.
75,000miles/6months = 12,500/miles a month (average)
Driving 1,600 miles nonstop takes around 26hrs to complete (granted, LOTS of factors come into play with this, just doing a reasonable estimate based on reasonably consistent results from googlemaps)
1,600 goes into 75,000 46.875 times.
Since now we know how many times 1,600 goes into 75,000 (46.875) and we know that 1,600 miles take approximately 26hrs to complete, here's our math:
46.875 x 26hrs of driving = 1,218.75 total hours of driving in 6 months.
To simplify this (too late for that) lets just round it up to an even 1,219 total hours of driving in that 6 month period.
1,219/6months = 203.16....hrs of driving time per month (again, just averaging). We can round that up and make it an even 203hrs of drive time per month.
One month has about 730.484 hrs in it...again, lets round that to an even 730hrs.
So if there are approximately 730hrs in a month and Johnny's car was driving on average 203hrs per month, that would mean that Johnny's car was on the road nonstop for 27.80% of any given month for 6 months straight.
If anyone wants to check my math that's cool...its crazy early here.
Anyway, (x/y * 100 = the %). So that's 203⁄730 = 0.2780.
0.2780 x 100 = 27.80 (27.80% in this case).
Granted these estimates; some months might have had heavier driving than other months. However, that's not the point, the point here is to give you a better idea of how extreme this amount of driving was.
To give better perspective,
I'm gonna freak if while doing all this someone posts that the mileage driven was miscommunicated in court lol. Believe it or not, math drives me nuts.
Apart from truck drivers, I've never heard of anyone putting that much mileage on a car. I personally can't see this being recreational miles; almost always, you see this kind of mileage in a cross-country CDL driver situation. Bottom line is that averaging 12,500 miles a month when most people drive 14,000-16,000 miles a year should raise some eyebrows. That's a lot of road to cover, a lot of people to meet, and a lot of enemies to make.
I'm going to throw a bunch of numbers at you so hang in there with me.
75,000miles/6months = 12,500/miles a month (average)
Driving 1,600 miles nonstop takes around 26hrs to complete (granted, LOTS of factors come into play with this, just doing a reasonable estimate based on reasonably consistent results from googlemaps)
1,600 goes into 75,000 46.875 times.
Since now we know how many times 1,600 goes into 75,000 (46.875) and we know that 1,600 miles take approximately 26hrs to complete, here's our math:
46.875 x 26hrs of driving = 1,218.75 total hours of driving in 6 months.
To simplify this (too late for that) lets just round it up to an even 1,219 total hours of driving in that 6 month period.
1,219/6months = 203.16....hrs of driving time per month (again, just averaging). We can round that up and make it an even 203hrs of drive time per month.
One month has about 730.484 hrs in it...again, lets round that to an even 730hrs.
So if there are approximately 730hrs in a month and Johnny's car was driving on average 203hrs per month, that would mean that Johnny's car was on the road nonstop for 27.80% of any given month for 6 months straight.
If anyone wants to check my math that's cool...its crazy early here.
Anyway, (x/y * 100 = the %). So that's 203⁄730 = 0.2780.
0.2780 x 100 = 27.80 (27.80% in this case).
Granted these estimates; some months might have had heavier driving than other months. However, that's not the point, the point here is to give you a better idea of how extreme this amount of driving was.
To give better perspective,
I'm gonna freak if while doing all this someone posts that the mileage driven was miscommunicated in court lol. Believe it or not, math drives me nuts.