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Who pays for the driver on a group trip?

The EvenRound team · EditorialPublished 1. Mai 2026Updated 29. Apr. 20265 min read

You're going on a trip. One of you is driving everyone's bags and bodies for six hours each way in their own car. The question: do they pay petrol, or does everyone else?

The answer is "everyone else", but the maths involves more than you'd think.

TL;DR

Petrol and tolls split equally among everyone in the car (including the driver). Wear-and-tear and depreciation are real costs the driver bears alone; either ignore them for short trips or add a per-mile rate for longer ones.

The four costs of using a car for a group trip

1. Petrol

Splits equally among everyone in the car, including the driver. Worked example: 600-mile round trip, 40mpg, £1.50/litre = ~£93. Five people = £18.60 each, including the driver.

2. Tolls and parking

Same as petrol. Equal split among everyone in the car. Add to the group's tracker as soon as the driver pays.

3. Wear and tear (the contested one)

Driving 600 miles wears the car. UK HMRC's mileage rate for personal vehicle business use is 45p/mile, which is the closest official number for what these costs add up to. Two patterns:

Short trips (under 150 miles): ignore.The driver covers wear-and-tear from goodwill. Group covers their petrol share and that's it.
Long trips (over 150 miles): add a per-mile rate. Often something like 20p/mile (less than HMRC - they'd still spend on a portion of these costs anyway). On 600 miles, that's £120 the non-drivers split, paid to the driver.

4. Time and effort

Driving for hours is real labour. The right way to handle this isn't money - it's social. Driver gets first choice of accommodation room. Non-drivers buy the petrol-station coffees. Driver's first night dinner is on the group.

The "I'll drive but it's your petrol" pattern

Some drivers explicitly take petrol-only and decline the wear-and-tear charge. That's their call to make. Accept it gracefully and pick up the dinner.

What we'd do differently

For trips over 200 miles, agree the wear-and-tear rate before getting in the car. Quoting it after the fact feels like renegotiation. Quoting it during planning feels like organising.

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Log the petrol fill-up as a group expense the moment the driver taps their card. Create a trip groupif you haven't already.

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Who pays for the driver on a group trip?

TL;DR

The four costs of using a car for a group trip

1. Petrol

2. Tolls and parking

3. Wear and tear (the contested one)

4. Time and effort

The "I'll drive but it's your petrol" pattern

What we'd do differently

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Who pays for the driver on a group trip?

TL;DR

The four costs of using a car for a group trip

1. Petrol

2. Tolls and parking

3. Wear and tear (the contested one)

4. Time and effort

The "I'll drive but it's your petrol" pattern

What we'd do differently

Try it

Try EvenRound

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