What has been your longest commute by miles or time?

[PWMDMD]

SW CT to central MA 5 days per week - took about 2:15 in the morning and anywhere from 2:30-3:30 depending on traffic going home. It was about 280 miles round trip. Works started at 7:30 am and I like to be there by 7:15 am and so I'd leave every day at around 4:45 am and would get home around 7 or 7:30 pm. Eat, shower, and go to bed. Before I made this switch I traded in my Audi S5 and I bought a 2014 Mazda3 with the 2.5. I did that for about a year and the Mazda3 was a champ. Now I live 8 miles from work...I prefer it this way!

I only did this because our house didn't sell and my start date for my new position came and I didn't really have a choice. I couldn't float the mortgage for both houses and so I did what I had to do. It was only doable because I knew it was for a finite time. What sucked was having 4 or 5 showings per week which would get our hopes up and no offers. At first, I figured a few weeks at most. Then maybe a few months. Then we were at 10 months before a serious offer and I was like ***? Another 6 weeks of looking for a house up here and closing and I believe it was 11.5 months from start to finish.

BTW...it was a great house - a 3600sqft ranch with 5-bedrooms, well cared for, a new roof, new central AC, freshly painted inside and out in a very nice community bordering one of the oldest country clubs in the US. The problem was it was a ranch and everyone wanted a colonial. The people who finally bought were older and wanted to be on one floor but had lots of kids/grandkids who visited and so the size and bedrooms were needed.

 

[Lyman]

Many people here commute 3+ hrs 1way to los Angeles every day.

The rest stop north of San Diego is full in the early morning hours. People commute from Mexico to LA everyday. It's a terrible drive too. Traffic is awful. I drive it once in a while.

 

[SHOZ]

Most of my working life was a 20 mile one way. For 4 years I drove 60 miles one way, all Interstate. I wore out two Festivas and had to quit a good job for closer work.

 

[ZZman]

345 miles one way from house to employee parking lot at LGA or JFK.

NYC traffic. Driven twice a week for a couple of years. Truly miserable. I was driving 50,000 miles/year for work.

Still about 340 miles from my driveway to employee parking at EWR these days, but I only drive it every other month. I typically fly.

Yuck

 

[walterjay]

About a 30 minute commute through nice country was my longest. I enjoyed the ride home as it gave me time to unwind. I traveled opposite of most commuters so the ride was not too stressful. I now enjoy my new commute time. Retired and 15 second walk to my morning coffee.

 

[JoelB]

Just to be opposite my wife currently has a 0.7 mile "commute" to work. That the shortest I've ever heard of since working from home clearly isn't a commute.

 

[Kestas]

I once read that throughout the ages, if a person had to commute daily more than one hour each way, he would change his circumstances, whether it be job or home. This was true for the hunter-gatherer in the bush hundreds of years ago has well as the modern city dweller.

 

[Zaedock]

I've commuted to Boston/inside 128 for years. Approx 75+/- miles one way with commute times of an hour to two hours from W.Mass.

I've typically always had a company vehicle and gas, so that's a big plus. As I moved up the chain, I now work from home often but retain my car/gas which includes personal use. I also play in a couple of bands and use the Escape, which is an added bonus.
It's been a good gig.

 

[Zaedock]

I once read that throughout the ages, if a person had to commute daily more than one hour each way, he would change his circumstances, whether it be job or home. This was true for the hunter-gatherer in the bush hundreds of years ago has well as the modern city dweller.

My retirement plans include opening a part time small engine shop. I've always been the "go-to" guy for friends and family(I get calls every storm for genny repair), so might as well make a bit doing something I enjoy. I look forward to the commute to the garage in flip-flops.

 

[Sonic]

Long drives to work are the worst. We’ve moved a lot for my wife’s job and a few times it’s been close enough to drive the distance before moving. One move was in state and it put me like 48 miles from my job. I did this for 8 months before landing another gig closer to where we moved. It was a rural area and not much available. So I did around 96 miles a day and quite a bit of that 8 month period was a 6 day work week. Most days I carpooled, I’d park at a ride share and go the rest with a coworker. But still, about 100 miles a day just for work.
My wife had a 77 mile one way commute for almost 11 months. She took a new job in another state. House went up for sale but took forever to sell. 154 miles a day was too much obviously so after a while we ended up renting. I stayed at the house with the kids and she’d Make the drive either Sunday night or Monday morning then return home Friday night. Not a fun time. She lived in the apartment during the week. Finally sold the house and could buy closer. But it was a rough time for all being separated.

 

[Zaedock]

Just re-read the title and realized the question is what my longest commute was, not typical.

I think it was 1998. I was working in Boston the Wed before Thanksgiving and left the city around 4PM as I was helping a client.
As that is usually the busiest travel day of the year, I was on the Mass Pike for hours, finally making it home around 10:30+PM.

People were running out of gas and peeing on the side the highway. I think I remember a dude breaking out a guitar. It was awful.
I have taken that day off ever since.

 

[ARCOgraphite]

31 miles from Southern New Hampshire to Research Drive in Wilmington. I worked late so as to miss traffic. Couldn't get up 495N to NH at 5PM. People don't know how to merge or leave space to merge efficiently. I wondered why they never installed signs saying "leave 4 car lengths minimum ahead of you" and have law that ticket those who didnt.
and make the HS lane 75mph MIN. You would need special "advanced" drivers license and enhanced vehicle inspection to use the "THRU" lanes.

twice as many people in the U.S since I was born and 50% more since I was in H.S. That's a lot! And they ain't getting any smarter either!

If I were King !

ps.: the longest time wise was 4 hours to get home in the afternoon during a snow storm. Same 31 miles.
After that I mention to the V.P that I was taking vacation days if a big storm was expected during the day.
and one did come eventually but it was a dud and I got razzed the next day Scientists - an unruly bunch!

 

[Patman]

My current commute to work is about 50 minutes in the morning and closer to 60 going home. It's 60km each way (37 miles)
It costs me roughly $15 a day in gas if I take the Corvette and about $8 in gas if I take the Civic. I still try to take the Corvette as often as possible though It makes the long commute more fun (especially since the route I take has a lot of hilly and twisty roads)

 

[Nick1994]

My longest was 33 miles one way/40 min. Currently 16 miles/20-25 min.

I don't mind a longer commute. By the time you get home, you're not pissed off about work anymore

For 6 weeks this last summer, I had to take my sister to school across town, go to work, pick her up, then go home to finish working from home. 94 miles a day.

 

[Creekside]

My current commute is about 10 minutes, 20 if I take the utv and backroads. Longest was an hour each way. My dad made an hour commute for 30 years and my mom is approaching the 40 year mark on the same drive.

 

[wings&wheels]

55mi to Boston via 95 and 128. Could be 1:10 or 3+, luckily I traveled a lot and wasn't in the office that much, but when I was, as it was very early in my auditing career, I was usually in before and leaving well after the heavy traffic hours....do not miss some of those days.

My current commute is usually from the bedroom to the home office by way of the kitchen, and todays dress was a pressed dress shirt over my workout wear, just had to remember to not stand

 

[Yah-Tah-Hey]

Sixty seven miles one way when I first went to work for Arizona Public Service at Four Corners Power Plant.

 

[tyman]

30-35mi/40 minutes

 

[haggler]

5 years ago:
27 Miles in Los Angeles on the 110 fwy.
1 hour~ going if I left at 5:45 AM
1.5 hour~coming back at around 2-3pm
All with a 2008 G37s 6 speed manual. I sold the car after it took me 3 hours once due to an accident.
Now, even before covid, I work from home.
I'm one of the few people I know that isn't proud to be from LA. Bunch of ******es here. I hate this city, I'm planning to move out next year.

 

[Drew7a]

Wife has been in the hospital in Detroit and I have been commuting 1.5 hours each way to see her. I hate the drive. Made me think how the heck people could do this daily for years.

sorry to hear about your wife hopefully she gets better soon.

My longest commute was 320 miles RT. Did that for almost 10 years (Not daily)