It’s not necessarily traveling out of town “overnight”. The driver’s log should show that he was required to take a layover due to being out of hours for the day. I had a driver from a local company that would leave Indianapolis at 10 pm and run a round trip to Chicago and be back by 8 am. His previous tax preparer had been taking the per diem meal allowance because he was gone every night. He was real upset with me when I would not take the deduction. I think he went back to his old preparer.
The trucking companies and the unions should do a better job of educating their drivers. I can see a lot of ugly audits coming from this.
Ed Pierpont
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