Feb/March 2007

If you suspect that your drivers inflate their business mileage claims, fleet management specialist Chevin Fleet Solutions has a possible answer - a simple online mileage calculator, which is now available as a module for its management suite.

Described as a route verification and mapping module, it uses an online routing and mileage service to generate the 'best routing' for a given journey, and is said to return a highly accurate mileage for the trip. This value is presented to the driver as a default, although it can be overridden if necessary.

The company says the system generally leads to 'a noticeable drop' in business mileage claims, and it maintains that the potential cost savings are huge.

Looking at it in terms of fleet car use, the company says that if the standard whole-life cost of a typical fleet car were 40 pence per mile, the potential cost saving would be over £100,000.