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B-230726 1 (1989-10-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnpm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L- C S.5 Th Co.nmpf*R General of tke United 9tates Wmahhti, DXC. 30648 Mark P.-Dulin - Reimbursement for Household Goods Matterof Moving Expenses - Auto Dolly File: B-230726 Date: October 3, 1989 DIGEST A transferred employee was authorized to move his household goods under a government bill of lading (GBL), and he chose to move himself. He is entitled to be reimbursed only for his actual expenses not to exceed what the government would have paid to move the goods by commercial carrier. The reimbursement, however, may not include the rental cost of an automobile trailer used to transport his car, since cars are not included in the definition of household qoods which may be transported at government expense. The fact that the employee loaded the car with household goods is not a basis for payment, since the rental of the trailer was primarily to transport the car. DECISION We are asked whether a transferred employee who chose to move himself, after being authorized to move his household goods under a government bill of lading (GBL), may be reimbursed for costs associated with towing his automobile filled with household goods on a dolly behind the truck he rented to move his household goods.l/ As will be explained below, there is no basis upon which the employee can be reimbursed for the expense of the dolly used to tow an automobile. BACKGROUND Under a travel authorization issued on July 30, 1987, Mr. Mark P. Dulin, an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was authorized, among other things, to move his 1/ The case was submitted by Mr. W. D. Moorman, an authorized official of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Finance center, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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