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...

Wow, this is such a good idea; i'm planning on returning full swing to the "OTR game" soon and this will be helpful in my research.

Thanks.

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.

That's true;

i think it would be benficial for everyone to post their weekly mileage.

If every driver on TTR posted his (honest) miles here everyday and named the company he worked for, I still would be left with meaningless info. How many hours of sleep did Driver get to make those miles? How many hours of unloading or loading babysitting did Driver have to do off the clock? How hot was it in the cab while Driver sat for 10 hours waiting for a load in NY without being able to idle. We need a comprehensive information distribution system and only FMCSA can make it happen. Never will happen under a Republican President though. Only thing that will change trucking industry is several catastrophic HOS related accidents in a very short period of time. Truckers will still lose though because for all you newbies out there that haven't realized it yet, You CAN"T make any money running legal unless you have a hand picked dedicated route.

There may be inherent problems with this but if one is comparing similar types of companies it would give some information that could be helpful. Any information that helps in research is better than no research or the info often given by recruiters. I did have one recruiter say that the current miles were a lot less than the advertised miles which is better than most will do.

i agree that miles alone aren't the complete story; You can easily make $1,000-$1400 all drop and hook here at my company, but you won't be able to sleep. Hence, my researching for other companies. In fact, i'll name my company----GREATWIDE dedicated.

i will introduce a new concept for comparing companies, possibly in a few weeks, which deals with sleep patterns.

Please stay tuned.

Wow, didn't take too long at all to get into a political line of BS and blame it on the administration.

Schneider
1955
Crete Carrier
2331
Marten Transport
2004
W/S
1677
Swift
1637
Covenant
2157

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Wow my company sure was a shocker. They've got almost 200 trucks and the average came out to 1730 miles per week per driver. Something just doesn't seem right about that. I've been with them almost my entire career and know of about 25 drivers offhand that have been there 10-25 years. I could count on one hand in all those years the times I've had a 1700 mile week. I don't know what my actual average is but I think conservatively it's 2500 miles a week and I'd have been long gone if it was only 1700 a week. The only thing I can figure is we also have some daycab trucks or maybe even the contract yard jockey tractors that are skewing the numbers somehow.

Someone needs a hug.

And from the sound of it a new line of work.