Practical Routes

eMILER Practical Routes represent distances and driving routes that a driver would normally take to minimize time and cost.

Practical Routes determine the trade-off between taking the most direct path and staying on major, high quality highways. Interstate highways are given a higher priority than toll roads, which in turn are given a higher priority than secondary highways, and so on.

eMILER Practical routings consider distance, road quality, terrain, urban/rural classifications, truck-restricted roads, and designated principal and secondary through routes.

eMILER Practical Route mileages and State Mileage distance breakdowns can be used to supplement your regular fuel tax reporting documents for many states. Many state audit departments have purchased licenses to incorporate eMILER into their audit procedures.

NOTE: A eMILER user may still be assessed additional taxes even by those states using eMILER in their audit procedures. However, your chances of being assessed additional taxes greatly diminish when you utilize a computerized mileage system in conjunction with your driver logs, trip sheets, invoices, and bills of lading.

In order to minimize the possibility of significant tax assessments, you must verify that the eMILER-generated route is the same as that reported on your driver logs and/or trip sheets. In addition, the carrier must add the appropriate vicinity miles to the eMILER generated distances so that the following equation is true:

TOTAL ODOMETER MILES = eMILER Miles + Vicinity Miles

NOTE: eMILER accounts for some vicinity miles if non-Keypoints (generally ZIP code locations and/or place names not associated with a downtown metropolitan area) are used as stop-off locations.

ALK Technologies continues to work closely with the member states of the International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA) and the International Registration Plan (IRP).