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It's easy to find sites claiming that Colonel Sanders drove at least 250,000 miles per year.

TV Tropes makes this claim:

Even in his advanced age, he drove himself upwards of 250,000 miles a year in his own car visiting individual restaurants and promoting the chain.

The University of Houston goes so far as to claim that he maintained this pace even up until 90 (though this source does not, strictly speaking, claim that he drove):

At the age of 90, the Colonel was stricken with leukemia. Until his death in 1980, he traveled 250,000 miles a year, visiting the KFC empire that he had founded.

Even Wikipedia makes the same claim, albeit with a bit more nuance:

Sanders died in 1980 from pneumonia at the age of 90, having continued to travel 200,000–250,000 miles a year up to this time, largely by car, promoting his product.

My skepticism here comes from the fact that at a reasonable average pace of 60 miles per hour (the legal speed limit was between 55 and 65 miles per hour for most of the later years of his life), this would mean, on average, driving more than 11 hours per day, 365 days per year, a very punishing schedule.

Did Colonel Sanders travel 250,000 miles per year? If so, did he drive 250,000 miles each year, and particularly, did he drive himself?

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    and he had to check out the restaurant when he got there, and he had to run the business. A lorry driver only manages about half that distance. Commented Apr 6 at 19:59
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    "Mike, once a long-haul truck driver, is now a medical courier who drives 16 hours each day, five days a week. Many people say they like to drive, but few have this level of love (or even tolerance) for the activity. From June 2012 to June 2013, Mike drove the Fiesta another 196,000 miles. From June 2013 to June 2014, he topped that at 198,000 miles, driving six days a week for much of the period." At least we can say it is possible to drive 200,000 in one year for work. caranddriver.com/news/a15348454/… Commented Apr 6 at 22:03
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    Most of what I can find says that he drove his car around a lot when he was restarting his business after the new highway bypass killed his old one, and also says that he later travelled 250,000 miles a year promoting the KFC restaurants. Somewhere along the line someone must have combined the two unrelated facts into one.¶I strongly suspect the 250,000 miles was actually mostly by flying, especially since his home was in Mississauga, Canada, and anyone that drives 15 hours a day doesn't have time for a home. Commented Apr 6 at 23:43
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    Only the first quote says "drove" and it's from an unreliable source TV Tropes, which is an editable Wikipedia-like resource that is much less reliable than Wikipedia. The other two quotes simply say "travel". Wikipedia does say (vaguely) "largely by car", but this doesn't mean he did the driving, which is what you're asking about. So, this is not a notable claim from a credible source. You claim, It's easy to find sites claiming that Colonel Sanders drove at least 250,000 miles per year. If it's easy, please edit them to your Q and not just have one quote from TV Tropes. Commented Apr 8 at 9:06
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    @user92011 - You appear to be mistaken about how the site works. It is only necessary that a claim be notable, which means that it is seen and likely believed by a lot of people. A popular wiki site is more than sufficient to surmise that many people will have seen and believed the claim. Credibility, on the other hand, is what we are here to determine. Commented Apr 8 at 13:03

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It sounds like two disparate bits of information were warped into a single, wrong factoid.

At the beginning of a contemporaneous New Yorker article (1970), they describe the Colonel's situation as a millionaire who's still deeply involved with the franchise he started:

He travels two hundred thousand miles a year in pursuit of publicity and good will for Kentucky Fried Chicken

A ways down, they describe the origin of his franchise:

So that year [1956], at the age of sixty-six, the Colonel resolved to go into the franchise business in earnest. He put a couple of pressure cookers and a bag of seasoning into his car and hit the road. When he came across a likely-looking restaurant, he would go in and beg the owner to let him cook some chicken for the restaurant employees, after the noon rush or after closing time. If the employees were impressed with the chicken, the Colonel would offer to stay around for a couple of days and cook for the restaurant’s customers, with the understanding that a favorable reaction from the public would be followed by franchise negotiations. It was a slow and costly way to sign up franchisees. To offset his travel expenses, the Colonel got a free meal from friends in the business wherever he could, and often slept in the back seat of his car.

The part of his life where he's slumming around the country entirely in his car is divorced from the part where he's a successful businessman, separated by over a decade. We're left to imagine how he travels 200,000 miles per year in the 70s, but common sense would dictate that much of that is air travel, with cars taking him the rest of the trip. For comparison, that's solidly between the yearly air travel of Simple Mills' CEO (140k miles) and MongoDB's (300k). It's aggressive but not unimaginable.

Of course, there's no particular source for any of the information in the article. It could be that the 200k figure is just the Colonel's rough estimate of his yearly travels.

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