Mileage Billing Discrepancies: The Audit Blind Spot Mobility Teams Overlook
Mileage billing feels like the easiest part of mobility ops. You log a trip, multiply by a rate, send an invoice. But ask anyone who's done fleet billing for a few years, and they'll tell you: the miles that hit the invoice rarely match the miles the vehicle actually traveled. That's not because anyone's cheating—just because the systems were built on assumptions nobody checked. The trickiest part is this: mileage isn't a single flat number. It's a stack of records—odometer snapshots, GPS track points, geofence timestamps—each with its own failure modes. You'll see where the gaps hide, what works to close them, and when you should stop trying to fix mileage billing altogether. I've watched teams burn months on perfecting a broken process. Sometimes, the right move is to unplug it.