If you personally pay for expenses incurred for site inspections and are not reimbursed by your employer, then these expenses are job-related expenses and are not deductible.

In fact, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the itemized deductions for job-related expenses subject to the 2% of AGI floor are suspended for expenses incurred after December 31, 2017 through 2025.

The best way for you is to get your employer reimburse these expenses to you through an accountable plan.

An accountable plan is a method under which an employee is reimbursed for expenses which he or she pays and provides substantiation for the proof.  These expenses are deductible by the Company and nothing gets to be reported on the W-2 or other tax documents of the employee..

Thank you for your reply. Last year I remember TurboTax asking me a question about certain job related expenses... it used the example of a person attending a conference as just one example. I conduct site inspection meetings during my travel, would this still qualify under that section?