Fuel money for going on courses?

getmore4less

Car insurance often has commute to a single place of work,

ANY other commute would not be covered.

here is what DL say

Direct Line's Social, Domestic and Pleasure policy cover includes commuting. This allows you to drive to and from a permanent place of work.

By 'permanent' place of work, we mean a single office, site, location or place of work that you intend to travel to for the duration of your contract of employment.

If you are employed, for example, on a 3 month contract and will only be travelling to one location/site/office during the term of your contract, then Social Domestic & Pleasure is sufficient

iammumtoone

Leaving out the issue that the wife doesn't want to drive the route (which I completely understand she has my sympathies)

The course is only 30miles away lots of staff will travel that distance or more just to get into their regular place of work, does this mean that the OPs wife can claim but some of her colleagues on the same course will not be entitled as they travel that far anyway?

TELLIT01

iammumtoone wrote: »

The course is only 30miles away lots of staff will travel that distance or more just to get into their regular place of work, does this mean that the OPs wife can claim but some of her colleagues on the same course will not be entitled as they travel that far anyway?

Strictly speaking the answer to that is Yes. Travel costs should be difference in mileage between the normal commute and the distance required to attend the training. If somebody lives 5 miles from work but has to travel 30 miles to the course they would be entitled to claim he additional 25 miles. If somebody lives 30 miles from work and has to travel 30 miles or less to the course then they shouldn't be able to claim anything. Not all companies apply the rules as they should do.

sangie595

getmore4less wrote: »

Car insurance often has commute to a single place of work,

ANY other commute would not be covered.

here is what DL say

Interesting. I have never had one that said that! All mine have defined "commute" as a journey from home to a place of work and back again. But as I said, I have never had one that has charged anything for business travel either.

TELLIT01

As the definition of 'place of work' seems to vary between insurers it's certainly worth checking.

mattcanary

getmore4less wrote: »

Car insurance often has commute to a single place of work,

ANY other commute would not be covered.

here is what DL say

That's unusual, I'd have thought. Surely most insurance policies would not say that commuting to and from work, (a fixed place of work or not), is included within social, domestic and pleasure use of your vehicle?

trailingspouse

What's wrong with the car? Get it fixed!! No wonder she's lacking in confidence on a motorway, who wouldn't be, if you thought the car was going to konk out at any moment.

When did she pass her test? Motorway driving can be nerve-wracking, but the more she does it the more confident she will become. This will sound hard-hearted, but thousands of us drive on motorways every day - and some of us had to do it even though we didn't feel confident. And we did it, and we began to feel confident. Make sure she gets the car fixed.

I'm not sure what the link is between her lack of confidence driving on the motorway and whether she will get her mileage paid?

getmore4less

sangie595 wrote: »

Interesting. I have never had one that said that! All mine have defined "commute" as a journey from home to a place of work and back again. But as I said, I have never had one that has charged anything for business travel either.

mattcanary wrote: »

That's unusual, I'd have thought. Surely most insurance policies would not say that commuting to and from work, (a fixed place of work or not), is included within social, domestic and pleasure use of your vehicle?

My insurer before DL had a similar clause

probably worth a good read if you have been using the same insurer for a while.

it's been like this for quite some time with many insurers

https://www.moneysupermarket.com/car-insurance/business-cars/

some insurers/policies do not include commuting in SDP as commuting is considered a different class.

Also you have to look at travel to a secondary transport location like a car park to get the train to work that would be commuting.

JustAnotherSaver

iammumtoone wrote: »

The course is only 30miles away lots of staff will travel that distance or more just to get into their regular place of work, does this mean that the OPs wife can claim but some of her colleagues on the same course will not be entitled as they travel that far anyway?

I know what you're saying but in this case at least there is nobody else on this course.

trailingspouse wrote: »

What's wrong with the car? Get it fixed!! No wonder she's lacking in confidence on a motorway, who wouldn't be, if you thought the car was going to konk out at any moment.

When did she pass her test? Motorway driving can be nerve-wracking, but the more she does it the more confident she will become. This will sound hard-hearted, but thousands of us drive on motorways every day - and some of us had to do it even though we didn't feel confident. And we did it, and we began to feel confident. Make sure she gets the car fixed.

I'm not sure what the link is between her lack of confidence driving on the motorway and whether she will get her mileage paid?

If you'd like to come & fix the car then by all means go for it.
You seem to suggest fixing it is just a case of going out, changing this for that & job done. 5 minutes see you later.

The car has actually been to a garage & they couldn't find the fault. In fact two garages haven't been able to find the fault now & these are obviously people who know infinitely more than i do in this area, and with the course not far away (in terms of days, not distance before it's said) there's not enough time to just pop out & fix it. We need to find out what the fix is first which we're still on with.

Not sure what the link is? Well i'm not sure how relevant it is how many people drive on the motorway every day. We could have millions on there, never mind your thousands but if one person doesn't feel confident then does it matter what the millions of others do?

Have you thought maybe the lack of confidence on the motorway may not even stem from this car? Maybe it stems from the first time she tried to get on the motorway & was nearly ran off it as she tried to filter on? Maybe it's not helped through her (DVLA informed <- got to get that in there because i know if I don't what the reaction will be) disability? Maybe all these things combined have her with not the highest of confidence levels?


The link is that she's not the most confident of people on the motorway anyway (as previously stated). She doesn't particularly like driving in general but has to do it but it's specifically motorways she doesn't like the most. Add to this her car is as it is & it just makes it worse.

Add to that she then mentioned taking my car (because at least it removes the faulty car part of it) but my car drinks juice considerably more than hers which triggered my question of "does your work give you travel allowance" and the response of "no i don't think so" and me then coming here to find out if there's any right or not to it.

That's the link, but it doesn't matter what the link is, i just posted. This isn't a court room, we don't have to look at everything with a magnifying glass trying to find faults.

ohreally

If she explains there is no car available will they get her to the venue or push the dates back?