Anyone here have a corporate car or car allowance??

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Current job is about to require me to do more driving and less flying. I work in sales but do not have car or auto allowance in my package, my previous territory wasn't drivable.

I have 2 options, rent a car every week or expense my mileage. I'm not thrilled about either of them.

Does anyone have any experience with doing a corporate car lease? Would that be cheaper for my company than renting a car every week? Or should i try to negotiate a car allowance? What's a reasonable amount?

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I like the car allowance, a little extra cash helps to pay for oil changes and expenses that I most likely would have had to get anyway.

Few friends parents have it. Usually give them allowance each month. But that allowance is usually way more than the gas + payment and insurance to account for maintenance.

I'm no help.

My brother has a truck supplied by his farm/boss. 2012 Titan 4x4, all gas payed, insurance payed, and all maintenance payed. I know :csb:

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Does anyone have any experience with doing a corporate car lease? Would that be cheaper for my company than renting a car every week? Or should i try to negotiate a car allowance? What's a reasonable amount?

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No experience with a lease, but if they are willing to rent a car every week, then they should be willing to lease a car, cheaper for them in the long run.

Something to think about if you are going to use your personal vehicle is you have to have a different coverage of insurance, the standard personal auto policy will not cover you as your car will be used for "commercial purposes" on the job, yeah you can just lie about it, but I wouldn't recommend it. This type of policy will double what you pay to have it added to your car.

So, either ask them for a car to use for the job, or figure out how much the insurance cost would be on yours and negotiate a mileage reimbursement (usually 30 cents a mile or so).

If they won't work with you, find a new job, no way I would do it with out being paid mileage as well as having a company card to purchase gas for company trips, if you are going to log 1000s of miles in a week-2 week period, they should be supplying the vehicle to rack up the miles as you will be losing money just using your car via depreciated value and future possible maintenance costs. You know if they pay enough for you to be able "to afford" this, but I doubt they do.