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My wife had a job recently that paid her $0.56/mile plus a slightly reduced hourly pay for travel time. She drove her '97 Escort and made some pretty good money while she was on the road. The first year she drove something like 30,000 miles, and probably pretty close to 20,000 in the first part of 2013 before she got a different job. The company also paid a % of her car insurance as well.
It ended up being a pretty good deal for us. I got the car from a renter who couldn't pay his bills, so the car didn't cost us much as the property was paid off to begin with (just insurance, taxes, and regular maintenance to the house).
If I would have had to buy her a brand new car for this job, I think we still would have come out ahead provided it was pretty fuel efficient to begin with. I put in a new radiator, hoses, belt, shocks & struts, brakes/rotors/drums all around, 02 sensors, plugs/wires/pcv/tranny filter, oil changes etc as needed so there we no shop fees. The car definitely has more wear and tear on it then when she started, but its still on the road.
I helped her company do some work and they paid me in the same manner. I didn't put nearly as many miles on as her, but I got to ride the motorcycle around and get paid for it. If I could ever find a job that paid mileage + good hourly driving time + good benefits I would jump on it in a second.
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