UK drivers spend a whole week on the road EVERY year

PR Log (Press Release) – Feb 10, 2010 – A study of typical travel habits of British drivers has found that they drive the most miles out of all the UK’s supposed 9-5ers, racking up nearly 3,000 miles every single month, whilst the research also looked at the number of miles Brits drive, how much they spend on petrol and more.

Leading user-courier matchmaking website www.Boxby.co.uk, which allows users to post delivery jobs for bulky or fragile items which couriers then bid on to transit have looked into the number of miles Brits drive.

The average Brit spends 25 minutes every day driving, which equates to 152 hours, or 6.33 days nonstop driving every single year according to the research, with 64% of people admitting that they’ve slept in their car overnight at some point in the past.

The average person drives 16 miles a day – or 5,840 miles a year – the equivalent of driving from Lands End to John O’Groats seven times.

There are 36,535,724 registered drivers in the UK, meaning that on average, 213 billion miles are travelled on UK roads every year.

At current petrol rates and at 35 miles per gallon, this would mean that the average driver spends £853 on petrol every year.

According to the study, at the rate of 33,600 miles a year, it would take the average courier just 7 years in the job to travel the equivalent distance of Earth to the moon, which is approximately 239,000 miles away at any given time.

The research showed that ‘mobile office’ sales workers, or people who travel to and from business meetings, are second in the list of employees who travel the furthest distance every week, with car-bound professionals clocking up over 100 miles a day on average.

Taxi drivers travel approximately 85 miles a day according to the research by Boxby.co.uk.

Sandra Patterson, co-founder of Boxby.co.uk had the following to say,

“Driving is such a huge part of life that you don’t really think about just how long you spend actually doing it.

“To find that couriers travel such long distances – nearly 6 times as far as the average person is amazing, and testament to how hard they work.”

ENDS

EDITORS NOTES  

For more information, contact Gabrielle Lofthouse at 10 Yetis PR Agency on 01452348211 or gabrielle@10yetis.co.uk or on Twitter @Gabriella_PRowl

Boxby were Scotland Finalists in 2008's HSBC Start-Up Stars.

Despite only launching officially last year, thousands of Brits have already sent items across the country with nearly 2000 registered couriers across the country.

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