Claim for Travel Expenses of Two Government Employees Traveling in Privately Owned Vehicle

An employee requested reconsideration of a settlement which disallowed the employee's claim for additional reimbursement for expenses incurred as a result of travel performed between Washington, D.C. and Cleveland, Ohio. The employee's travel authorization provided that the reimbursement of mileage could not exceed the round trip air fare plus taxis and/or limosines. On the trip to Cleveland the employee was accompanied in a privately owned vehicle by another government employee. In the travel voucher the employee included in the constructive cost statement the costs the passenger would have incurred had he traveled by commercial air carrier. Costs for common carrier transportation saved by the use of privately owned vehicle when more than one employee travels in the same vehicle cannot be included in a comparative cost statement. The decision was sustained.