Janis Rogers, an Uber driver in Virginia, drove a fare from Williamsburg, Virginia to Bed-Stuy in New York City. Picture: Chet Strange

Then, the 64-year-old turned right around and drove back to her home in Newport News, Virginia.

Even more impressive, she did it all without stopping to use the bathroom!

“I was wide awake and kept on going. I don’t have a problem with going for a long time,” Ms Rogers told the New York Post.

The fare was a young woman outside a Ben & Jerry’s in Williamsburg, Va., who said she needed to get to Bedford-Stuyvesant to see her boyfriend. It was June 9, at 11:51am.

The bill for the gruelling 645km, 7-hour-42-minute jaunt: $US294.09.

A New York City yellow cab making the same trip in reverse would cost $US1,182.

But the rider wasn’t exactly pinching pennies. If she had been, she could have taken a plane for $188; a train for $95, and bus for only $45.

Ms Rogers, a friendly 64-year-old Southerner, said she was happy for the long-distance haul, a departure from the average Uber ride of 9km.

Ms Rogers said her passenger looked “about 19 or 20” with “long brown hair.”

“She was pretty. She was sitting outside with a suitcase and a bag,” Ms Rogers recalled. “I did not get her name. I think she had been Ubering up the coast.”

Ms Rogers said that when the stranger got in the car she asked, “How far north can you take me?”

“I said, ‘Well, I’m not doing too much today, so I’ll take you all the way.’

“She said, ‘Really? That would be great.’”

The woman then curled up in a blanket Ms Rogers keeps in the back seat of her 2005 Prius and “slept the entire way.”

“She didn’t seem excited to see her boyfriend,” she said. “She was kind of blasé. She looked tired.”

A screenshot of the 645km trip from Virginia to Brooklyn. Picture: Chet StrangeSource:Supplied

One Uber rider paid a small fortune to get driven from Virginia to New York City. Picture: AlamySource:Alamy

Ms Rogers reached her Putnam Avenue destination by nightfall. The two said goodbye — no tip was offered — and the driver turned right around and drove back to Virginia, arriving home at about 3:45am.

Ms Rogers, who didn’t even own a mobile phone before joining Uber in May, didn’t make much money on the longest ride.

After driving 15 and-a-half hours round-trip and spending $32 for petrol and tolls (she didn’t spend a dime on food or drinks), the trip earned her about $9 per hour, she calculated.

“This was not lucrative,” she said. “I did it because it was an adventure.”

The trip was “a little bit scary for me,” she said. “I had never been anywhere downtown in New York. I’ve driven through New York to visit my sister in Maine. But never downtown.”

Ms Rogers said she first realised she may have made Uber history when one of her riders Googled “longest Uber ride” and up popped a story on Joe Strandell, who drove a woman 515km from Santa Barbara to Palo Alto in California in 2014.

Mr Strandell shared his story with Harry Campbell, an Uber driver who blogs about the ride-sharing industry.

Mr Campbell told The Post that Ms Rogers is the new record-holder. Uber itself did not return messages seeking comment.

Ms Rogers likens Uber driving to fishing.

“It’s like I throw my line in the water when I turn my app on — and I wait for the hit. And when I tap my screen, it’s like setting the hook. And then … and when I pick them up, it’s like reeling them in.”

And sometimes she catches a big Brooklyn fish.

This article first appeared on the New York Post.