Originally Posted by konaboy

Many of the posts in these forums tell you how many miles that driver is getting, which can vary greatly due to the driver's relationship with their dispatcher, their ontime service record, the amount of home time they fight for etc.

Here is a way to get a better idea of the miles each company gives to their drivers based on government statistics.

Keep in mind that this is an average! If you are a good driver, you should expect to get better than average miles.

Search for FMCSA Company Snapshot with Google and go to first link.
(I'd give the link here but it's against forum policy.)
Click NAME
Type the name of the company
Click the company name if you get options
Scroll down to MSC-150 Mileage (Year)
divide that number by the number of DRIVERS just above it.
Divide that number by 50 (figure two weeks off for repairs vacation etc.)
to get the average number of miles the average driver gets per week.

If the mileage year is a couple years old for a fast growing company, you may want to search for SAFESTAT ONLINE and look at the companies HISTORY to see how many drivers they had in that year, and divide the miles by that number instead.

Now if anyone wants to argue about which company gives the most miles on average to their drivers, you can give them the facts!!!

Oh, you can also see the number of vehicle (level 1 & 2) and driver (level 3) inspections the DOT performed on their trucks, the number of trucks registered to the company, and other interesting information such as fatal accidents, crashes etc...

Originally Posted by bigredinternational

I graduated from trucking school with a guy who got a dedicated route just out of school, I didn't. He had guaranteed miles, I didn't. He was home two days every week. I was home once every five weeks. If we take the average days home we each had about one day off per week. Funny thing is that average day off per week never got me a night in bed with my wife in five weeks.

Miles are the same way. My training driver got over 4,000 miles per week because he had a dedicated route. I got about 2,000 miles per week. We both drove for the same company. That means we each got 3,000 mean average miles per week. Wonder where my extra average 1,000 miles per week of pay is held up. Maybe it will come with my government stimulus check???

The only meaningful info comes from knowing all average measurements. There is mean average. I have just shown the lies inherent in those statistics. There is mode average which is simply the number of miles driven per driver that occurs most frequently in the period measured. Then there is the median which represents the middle of the bell curve of histographical data. It is generally meaningless for drivers that care about income. We need to know the mode and the standard deviation so we know what is the most likely number of miles we can expect. Wouldn't it be great if Safestat and TMC could tell us that. Then we'd know more of the reality of pay for drivers.

Originally Posted by konaboy

Many of the posts in these forums tell you how many miles that driver is getting, which can vary greatly due to the driver's relationship with their dispatcher, their ontime service record, the amount of home time they fight for etc.

Here is a way to get a better idea of the miles each company gives to their drivers based on government statistics.

Keep in mind that this is an average! If you are a good driver, you should expect to get better than average miles.

Search for FMCSA Company Snapshot with Google and go to first link.
(I'd give the link here but it's against forum policy.)
Click NAME
Type the name of the company
Click the company name if you get options
Scroll down to MSC-150 Mileage (Year)
divide that number by the number of DRIVERS just above it.
Divide that number by 50 (figure two weeks off for repairs vacation etc.)
to get the average number of miles the average driver gets per week.

If the mileage year is a couple years old for a fast growing company, you may want to search for SAFESTAT ONLINE and look at the companies HISTORY to see how many drivers they had in that year, and divide the miles by that number instead.

Now if anyone wants to argue about which company gives the most miles on average to their drivers, you can give them the facts!!!

Oh, you can also see the number of vehicle (level 1 & 2) and driver (level 3) inspections the DOT performed on their trucks, the number of trucks registered to the company, and other interesting information such as fatal accidents, crashes etc...