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The IRS periodically increases the standard mileage rate, but many think it is further than ever behind the true cost of operating a vehicle.
Local standards limit housing, utilities, and transportation expenses, including vehicle ownership as well as operating costs.
He was fired after being cited for "operating a motor vehicle while subject to an impairing substance, " while in a personal car on personal time.
But it has been well known for a long time that the rate didn't really cover all of the cost of operating the typical vehicle, especially a new, expensive one with higher first- and even second-year depreciation.
For instance, Renault had done a good job on cutting vehicle development costs, but its operating margin was still subpar because it was uncompetitive in other areas, including logistics, distribution and marketing costs, Pelata said.
Microsoft has spent its energy helping its partners create applications for its mobile operating system, rather than turning the mobile operating system itself into a vehicle for ads.
Mr. Ballmer styled the new tablet device as a vehicle to exploit its forthcoming Windows 8 operating system, and a variant called Windows RT that relies on different kinds of computer chips.
Europe's firms can help themselves by forming closer links with their American counterparts (as British Aerospace has done by co-operating with Lockheed Martin on a new scout vehicle and on America's new Joint Strike Fighter).
John Nicholls, chief operating officer at SCAS, said that "our vehicle off road rate is too high at the moment".
Aside from the obvious fact that any such tax would be passed along to consumers in the form of even higher fuel costs, such an artificial increase to the operating costs of every personal, business and construction vehicle used in the country would have a chilling effect on our fragile economic recovery.
Putting humans in a vehicle with millions of parts, atop thousands of pounds of explosives, and then operating it at high speeds while monitoring thousands of variables that rapidly change is hard stuff.
This is where people put fake number plates on their vehicle so that if they're photographed by one of the thousands of speed cameras operating in Britain, they don't have to pay the fine because the camera's photographed the wrong number.
The Ministry of Defence said the soldiers were part of a patrol travelling along Route 611 between Forward Operating Base Ouellette and Patrol Base Lashkar Gah Durai in Nahr-e-Saraj when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.
Robots are getting better at co-operating with each other: in some car plants a big robot now lifts a small one inside the vehicle to assemble components.
BYD, the Chinese electric vehicle maker backed by billionaire investor Warren Buffett, plans to locate the U.S. headquarters of three separate operating divisions in Los Angeles, according to an announcement on the Web site of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC).
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