Available to subscription: Enterprise
User role: Employee
If a business trip includes a ferry crossing, we recommend registering the trip in two parts and then merging them into one trip. This ensures that the distance is correct and that the 60-day rule counts at the right address.
Why does a trip with a ferry need to be registered in a special way?
When the logbook calculates a distance between two addresses, it chooses the fastest route. On many routes, the fastest route goes over a bridge instead of by ferry, for example across the Great Belt Bridge. In that case, neither the distance nor the route matches what you actually drove.
In addition, the ferry port must not count as the destination under the 60-day rule. It is the final destination, for example the customer or the workplace, that must count.
How to register a trip with a ferry
- Register both trips on the same day.
- Trip 1: From your home address to the ferry port.
- Trip 2: From the ferry port to the final destination, i.e. the address where the 60-day rule should count.
- Merge the two trips into one trip.
- Choose to add the distances together.
The result is one trip from your home address to the final destination with the distance you actually drove.
Important: Add the distances together
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When you merge the trips, you must choose between two options. Choose "Add the distances together". The options have similar names on web. Do not choose "Calculate the direct route". The logbook will then calculate a new route between start and end, and the distance will be wrong. The route may, for example, go via the bridge instead of the ferry. Please note that trips cannot be separated again once they have been merged. |
Example
You live in Aarhus and have a customer meeting in Roskilde. You take the ferry from Aarhus to Sjællands Odde.
- Trip 1: Home in Aarhus to Aarhus ferry port.
- Trip 2: Sjællands Odde ferry port to the customer in Roskilde.
- Merge the two trips and choose to add the distances together.
You get one trip from your home to the customer in Roskilde with the kilometres you drove. The 60-day rule counts at the customer's address in Roskilde. Had you chosen to calculate the direct route, the route would instead go across the Great Belt Bridge.
How to merge trips
The procedure for merging trips is described step by step here:
- On web: How to merge trips – via web
- In the Mileage Book Business app: How to merge trips – in the Business app