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1000 miles a day is probably illegal.
At highway speeds, he'd need 13.5 hours of driving non stop, not accounting for bathroom or meal breaks, or even time to fuel up.
Commercial truckers cannot drive more than 12 hours a day.
Not that Hertz is right here but this dude has to be on the road 16 hours a day at least. Which suggests to me that he's not the only one using those miles.
My state has 80mph speed limits, which drops this to 10.5h non-stop driving.
That said, since this is on TikTok (that's where the link goes), this has to be a stunt for attention. So I wonder if these were even highway miles, he could have taken it to a race track or something to get the miles that high, or even just put it on a car rack with a brick on the accelerator.
I mean, it takes NASCAR 3 hours to get to 500 miles. That's with a pit crew keeping your car running and not every car finishes. Sure some crash but most of those failures are like, tires or engine failures.
Cars just aren't made to do that.
It would take a minimum of 12.5 hours to get to 1000 miles without stopping at 80 miles an hour.
After 8 hours a 30 minute break is required. We're at 13 before we calculate in stopping and refuelling, non highway miles, accelerating, and traffic.
At the absolute fastest speed he can legally go.
Dude's breaking the law somewhere. Or he's exaggerating. Or, much more likely, he's having multiple people rack up miles pretending to be him.
Either way, fuck Hertz, like they have cause they can just kick him off the program. They ain't gotta bring the law in to it.
What about a brick on the accelerator?
That'll take you all the way to the scene of the crash
I'm talking about when it's propped up on a car lift or something.