Toll Reimbursements

As much as it kills me not having EZ-PASS I have to agree with gort. I have been watching this like a hawk week in and week out. Make sure you fill these out like gort said...PRO # , NAME , ID # on each and every receipt (a bit ridiculous but it does work).... I send in the receipts with the trip sheet, every pro number is seperated on each toll reimbursement sheet and sent in with the trip sheet with that pro number to make it easier for the office people to understand. I agree with eckz that they should call you but they don't! and won't! Yes its the drivers job but they can sure try a little harder at their job also...I have been averaging between $150 and $350 week in tolls being I run in the toll central NorthEast so I have to keep on top of it..

 

This will not help now, But I would make a copy of the receipts on a page or two and keep them for my reference!

 

They just scan them to TMC at the truckstop, you get the originals back.
I save all that stuff for proof if questioned , just to be safe

 

Not to be a jerk, but it kind of is. Of course the driver should be filling their paperwork out correctly, but if an error comes up it is implicit that they should contact the driver and let them know that there is a problem with the paperwork that is going to keep hundreds of dollars off their check. Also, it's not always that the paperwork is not filled out properly, I have had several occasions where they said they did not receive the paperwork even though I had the trans-flo receipt in my hand with the date/time/transaction number on it. When we take on the responsibility of being a creditor for our company it is implicit that they will pay us back.

I have every trans-flo sheet I've ever sent in still. When I called my FM to tell him my last check was light $200 he said mail them in to me and I'll take care of it. That was 6 weeks ago and it still has not been taken care of. My trainer who has been with TMC for YEARS told me two days ago that his toll reimbursements are starting to not get reimbursed. A driver who has been with the company for years knows how to fill out and send in their trans-flos. Something does not jive here.

 

I had $175.00 deducted from my paycheck for a comchek that I apparently never submitted any receipts for, best I can do is remember that I spent close to $175.00 on tolls and re-send the receipts I sent in a month ago. I have no way of knowing which tolls I was reimbursed for and which I wasn't.

comcheks are a pain in the ###, paying tolls is a pain in the ###, trying to keep track of advances and pro numbers is a pain in the ###, fighting with your FM over this problem is a pain in the ###, reminding him every day for a week about this problem is a pain in the ###, stuffing money back in your wallet pulling out of a toll booth is a pain in the ###, sending in 19 toll receipts for one trip into New England and back is a pain in the ###, and working all week and bringing home $450 because of all these pains in the ### makes me want to work somewhere else. sick of tolls affecting my paycheck. sick of it.

 

Tell your FM to contact payroll and that you want a print out of you toll reimbursements, they sent it right out when I had discrepencies. Yes another pain in the ### but worth it when its your money!!

8 pains in the ### that an EZ-PAss would take care of!!!! Drives me CRAZY too!!! Absolutley ridiculous!!!

Made a delivery to the Home Depot DC in Norwood Mass. last week...Ready for this....All the dedicated guys up there have nice new EZ-Pass transponders.....boy if that doesnt really really piss me off!!!!! Love to know what TMC's explanation for that would be!

 

I am suprised they let you go the PA pike on that trip.
If you skip the pike in PA, you don't hit a toll till youngstown, which cuts out a rather large toll in PA, depending on weight, and only adds 26 miles to the trip. So if the truck gets 5 mpg at 3.00 a gallon it is 15 bucks. The PA Pike that far is every expencive. It is easy to cut out OH also, but not really worth it since Youngstown to the state line is only around 21 bucks. Indiana is about 21. But it is not worth the miles to go around, and IL is like 8.
Of course if they have the PA pike set as your route I guess there is not much you can do about it.

 

Yeah I saw what must be a dedicated(day cab 379) in schodack NY with an ez pass, not that you wanted to hear that