An Uber driver has clocked up what is believed to be the longest the company’s history when Janis Rogers drove a passenger just under 400 miles from Williamsburg, Virginia to Brooklyn.

It was a romantic mission with a young woman wanting to visit her boyfriend in New York.

According to the New York Post the Odyssey started outside a branch of Ben & Jerry’s with Ms Rogers, 64, being asked to take her passenger to Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The 396.58-mile trip was rather a departure for Ms Rogers. The average of an Uber trip is 5.4 miles. The previous record is believed to have been set in 2014 by Joe Strandell, who took a woman 320 from Santa Barbara to Palo Alto in California. When she picked up the fare, the passenger asked how far Ms Rogers was willing to drive. Without any other customers on the horizon, she volunteered to go the whole way.