@elcarev68 wrote:
Good job, OP.
Small complaint for the MSC - Before they changed the guidelines, you could take a few closed location photos and be on your way if the station was out of gas. Now you have to complete the whole audit... same work on site, same report at home, same mileage/gas expended to get there, but no gas equals $5 less in pay (if you count gas as pay, which I do.)
I had the same thing happen at a different station that would reimburse for two gallons of fuel in addition to the audit fee. The fueling area was closed, but the audit still had to be completed. This was back when gas was running at around $4/gallon, so I lost around eight dollars in compensation. Adding insult to injury, the station was preparing for an upcoming renovation and was in exceptionally poor condition. So, I had many, many photos to upload, plus several questions were unanswerable because I couldn't pump any fuel. That added still more time to the reporting process, as I had to get help from the MSC in order to complete and submit the survey. The supervisor at the MSC was sympathetic but told me that I would not receive any additional compensation to replace the lost reimbursement.
Frustrating, for sure, but I made up for it the next time that MSC called to ask me to cover an out-of-the-way location for that same client.