I just got my Comdata card for Swift on Friday last week. I'm new to driving and this card. How do you do the checks? I would only want to use them for tolls/scales and other reimbursable expenses, will I be racking up fees that I have to pay for? Also, I heard you can do advances on the card, is that true? I'm trying to get my DD set up on Swift's site, but there is a broken link. I'll call the student DM tomorrow if I can't get it working..
Comm Data cards fuel etc
Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by LucianTHX, Nov 21, 2008.
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Was your CDL a B or A.And if an A why do you have to go to school?
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If you don't have enough to cover the expense loaded on your card, we just send a QC to dispatch, and the amount needed is loaded within a couple of minutes. I have run across drivers for other companies who have a difficult time at this point... getting the company to fork over the necessary bread.
And... someone at payroll can screw up the tape that goes out to the banks for DD. It's happened to me in the past. It's not so bad if you're at home in a regular life, but on the road it can be a complete disaster - another good reason to have something extra available.Lurchgs Thanks this. -
very similar to how I operated... I rarely touched the company side of the card other than for fuel and comchecks. A couple times I had to get oil and anti-freeze was it.
When I got paid (Thursday night) I'd immediately transfer all but $200 to my "DD" account - my wife's checking account. That $200 was my 'everything' money - tolls, food, ice... whatever. Usually, come the next week, I still had about $100 in the account from the week before, so it sounds worse than it was.
Word of warning: running the I-80/90 corridor from Chicago to Boston costs about $180 just in tolls. If I was heading that way, I tried to make sure I had access to that extra $200 (in each direction - total $400)
Always got reimbursed, but any way you slice it, occasionally running the toll roads up there is a tremendous PITA. If you run that section of highway a lot, the I-pass/EZ-Pass is an absolute necessity )IMHO(. If company won't spring for it, it's probably worth dipping into your own pocket for it. -
Lurch, have you landed on your feet yet ?
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BigRay,
Thanks. Not quite yet - but I can see the ground coming up. I may be in orientation come Monday - but there's a hurdle or two to deal with first. This being a heavy holiday week is not helping.
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