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B-201281 1 (1981-07-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjno0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION .Th3 OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-201281 DATE: July 7, 1981 MATTER OF: Mr. Earl D. Cleland - Mileage between home and common carrier terminal DIGEST: Defense Logistics Agency employee who was driven on two round trips (each trip over 200 miles) by privately owned vehicle to and from an airport primarily for personal convenience when travel by common carrier was reasonably available may not be reimbursed for the difference in the mileage allowance and one round-trip bus fare between the same points. The Accounting and Finance Officer, Defense Contract Administration Services Region Atlanta, Defense Logistics Agency, requests an advance decision concerning payment in connection with an employee's temporary duty travel of a claim for the difference between mileage allowance for two round trips by privately owned vehicle from Columbia, Mississippi, to the New Orleans airport and one round-trip bus ticket between the same points. Payment of the claim is denied since travel by -common carrier was-reasonably available and the use of personal transportation was made on the basis of personal preference or minor inconvenience to the traveler from common carrier scheduling. Mr. Earl D. Cleland, a civilian employee of the Defense Logistics Agency, was ordered to travel on tempo- rary duty from his home in Columbia, Mississippi, to New Orleans, Louisiana, to San Antonio, Texas, returning the same way. He accompanied others departing by airline from New Orleans in a last minute substitution for an individual unable to make the trip. His supervisor authorized round- trip mileage from Columbia, Mississippi, to New Orleans, for a distance of 400 miles in his travel orders and he was verbally instructed that his wife could drive him to the New Orleans airport and pick him up at the end of the temporary duty. However, bus service was available from Columbia to New Orleans departing late Sunday afternoon and Monday morning at 5:30 a.m. which would have enabled him to arrive in New Orleans prior to departure for San Antonio. Bus service was also available so that upon his / ; c, 7 _ Ile 0 ~

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