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Mileage Reimbursement Rate Headed Up?

GOV availability

Rural Development Specialist
USDA/formerly DOD
Wed Jul 16, 2008 8:15 AM

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Seems to me that if the GOV is available and you choose not to take it because of restricted use, that is your choice. I prefer to grab a GOV every time if available to save wear and tear on my car and of course the cost of gas. I understand the restrictions are a pain but they are like that because of liability. We have a MOU with other USDA agencies so we can share cars. Makes availabilty more likely.

as for POV mileage going up, it's about time, I do hope GSA will increase asap. But, budget breaker for the agency so....who knows what will happen.

Mileage

Consumer Safety Inspector Relief
FSIS-USDA
Thu Jul 17, 2008 7:09 PM

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That is good, but this don't help me and a whole lot more relief drivers that work out of town and choose to drive there on vehicle, because of the restriction they have on the government cars. Like myself I do not go home, I stay out all the time. And on the weekend, well if you were driving a government car, well you would have to stay at the motel, because you can't go no where but to work and to eat and back to the motel. You are not suppose to use it to go to a movie or mall or nothing. You are tide down. And if you are staying in a motel well you will have to get out of it or you will go crazy, you be there all week long. But they don't ever say anything about giving the high-mileage driver nothing, they haven't giving us nothing in the last three years. You don't have to drive nothing but 700 miles per month to be considered a high-mileage driver. I wish some one would address this for the high-mileage driver. Write something about it or write something about it.

Mileage

Consumer Safety Inspector GS-10 Relief
USDA-FSIS-OFO
Tue Jan 12, 2010 3:00 PM

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Everybody is talking about the rate you get when you put in for a government car and they don't have one then you claim the 0.50 cent per mile until they get the car. But no one are saying anything about the high-mileage drivers that get the 0.28.5 cent a mile when you choose to drive your own because of the restricting they have on the government car. The last time they gave us anything was 1.5 cent per mile and that was about 5 years ago. Raise it from 27 cent to 28.5 cent. Even when the gas was almost 5.00 a gal., well they still didn't give us any more money. I have been work for the agency for 31 years and working relief for 27 years. When I started working relief well you had to drive 2100 mile per month to be called a high-mileage driver, now it is down to 600 miles per month and you are considered been a high-mileage driver. Most all of the relief peoples I know choose to drive there own vehicle, than to have the problem that goes with the government vehicle.

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