Driving force: County worker logs $34G in mileage
Well, this one woke me up this afternoon. That’s a LOT of miles. Mater of fact that’s more than half the top-performer mileages for a lot of over the road truckers.
What will the investigation show? Well I guess the safest thing to say if that Paulie Gaultieri (you know, Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos?) has to work weeks sometimes to make 34 large, but this lady did it in one expense report.
When managers think about GPS Tracking they mostly think about the “motor pool” sort of things … excess idling, getting the vehicles in for service on time … honorable but greasy finger nails sorts of things.
But front office management is always impressed when they actually take GPS tracking for a test drive. I have yet to find a government agency or a commercial fleet where drives aren’t cheating. Sad but true, and if you don’t beleive me, just challenge me to a tryout.
The real joke in the Pennsylvania saga above is that this employee claimed she ran up all those miles running children to doctors and court appearances. Friends, have you ever take a child to the doctor or worse yet, a custody hearing? If you have I know you can spell ‘dead ass’ … I mean talk about boredom and delay?
71,733 at a generous 45 mph average is more than 1500 hours behind the wheel, The normal public employee work week is only 2080 hours. You mean to tell me that she did all that doctor’s office and court waiting, plus vacation, sick leave, personal days off, etc, etc in the less than 500 hours a year she wasn’t in her car?
If ya do, stop by tomorrow, as soon as I blast a hole for the sign post I’ll have my ocean front property in Arizona up for sale.