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By Greg Bartlett

Working for a company that pays for your travel expenses sounds like a great benefit, especially with today’s much-fluctuating gas prices. However, it can be tempting to misuse this benefit and report more miles than were actually driven for work purposes. With current economic problems, companies are searching for ways that they can be more efficient. And the last thing that businesses need is to pay out more than they really owe their employees for traveling. Tracking mileage is one area that can easily go from over-estimated and difficult to simple and efficient with the help of today’s technology.

GPS tracking systems are not brand new technology, but it is becoming an increasingly beneficial thing for businesses as well as employees. By putting systems in business vehicles, it will be a cinch to track which miles are truly for work and which are for the quick run to the store. The knowledge that they have a GPS ‘keeping an eye on them’ will help employees keep work and leisure time separate. In fact, they won’t even have to worry about tracking their own mileage, because the system can do it for them.

GPS tracking systems work in the employee’s favor just as much as it would against them. Although they might not like the idea of a babysitter that makes sure they behave, when shown how a GPS system will work for them, employees will not resist having a system in business vehicles.

Businesses can and should encourage employees to put tracking systems in their own cars as well. Those who have to report work mileage on a personal car can be increasingly frustrated trying to keep business and personal mileage separated. It can be difficult to remember to track and log all of your business traveling time, but the GPS can do it for you! Employees will no longer have to remember all the errands that they ran each night after work that added significantly to the day’s mileage. Instead, they can view a list of their travels or they can look at each day’s mileage on a digital map.

So put away the notebook and pen and save yourself time and frustration by switching to a GPS vehicle tracking system that will take all the hassle of out reporting company miles and just leave you enjoying the benefit of being paid for company travel time.