) I'm going to have to spend a bit more time on the road. Now I've always used the car for business but I didn't often have to go all that far so my business mileage is typically only around a couple of hundred miles a month, not that bad. Already in the diary is an additional 300 mile round trip every month, that doesn't sound like a lot but it's over 3.5K a year (without any other trips), and I normally only average 12K/yr. When I mentioned to a friend that I didn't want to be putting all this extra mileage on my own car he was like "Why? Your car was built for it". OK, that's a fair point, I'd rather sit on the motorway in my car than in most other stuff, but I want to keep the mileage down, keep the car in good nick and get at least 10 years out of it. I use the "fuel log" app to monitor my costs etc, so I know that the car is costing 24p/mile to run overall (not including depreciation) and we get 30p/mile reimbursement (so technically I'd "make" 6p per mile, but I'd have to up the mileage on the insurance etc).
We're looking into getting a pool car, but I don't personally think that's a very good option because it'll probably sit outside the office most of the time, then everyone would want it the same day! There'd obviously be a changeover point where it'd be cheaper for the company to rent and fuel up a car for the day, rather than pay reimbursement, I reckon that's around 250 miles a day. I think I'm gonna start doing that.
Or am I just being stupid here guys?
