I'm not a driver any more, but hubs is and the question is about a paycheck

That has become my first question in finding a job. "Do you charge drivers for your business expenses?" If the answer is other than never, move to the next company.

Sure it's reimbursed but it never should have gone through the drivers paycheck to begin with.

 

Oof.

We even pay our drivers mileage pay (up to 500 miles) no matter how they get to orientation (on top of paying for the method of transportation). We rent a car for them to drive? Mileage pay from home. We buy a plane ticket? Mileage pay. They hop on one of our trucks passing through? Mileage pay. Any method other than rental car? Your first load is back to/through your home to pick up all the stuff you'll need on the truck.

Truck breaks down on the road? Call dispatch, and they will arrange for a hotel with the company CC. Need parts/fluids/additives? Put up to $100 at a time on your EFS card. Bigger repairs? Call the shop and they will authorize repairs and cut a money code for an EFS check. Tolls? That's what the I-Pass is for.

I'll never understand this whole "reimbursement" scheme from a lot of places. If the company's not paying it up-front, there is a good chance they will play games with the money on the back side, as you just saw.

 

If I am reading it right. This was for a hotel room while the truck was getting fixed. They reimburse for that at most companies. Assuming you get them the receipts to show it is valid. Hence why they took it out as Fuel Adv. No receipt, at least on time, it was treated as his expense. Pretty standard. I would say. Not like he's being charged for the repair.

 

Never had to do this yet. Don't think I'd want to. The idea of tying up my money till hopefully my next paycheck seems like a imposition to me. Submitting and tracking receipts to ensure reimbursement. All of this just sounds like a headache.
A company credit card seems a lot more convenient.
With my luck a $20 receipt would get lost in all the paperwork and they would refuse reimbursement. I'd hate to have to quit over $20 but I would.

 

I've been at my company almost 7 years, and have never once paid for anything out of pocket. I think that's how it should be.

Now granted, I guess I've never stayed in a hotel at this company, but I've had a few unforeseen things happen, and it's always been paid for by them, up front.

 

The company paid for it. Like using a t check for a lumper. But he didn't get the receipt to them to show it was actually used for the hotel and didn't just go in his pocket.