What dummy would switch from practical mileage pay to HHG?

Actually, I'm stongly considering it. When I started out I understood that Household Movers Gide was zipcode to zip code and practical was more or less address to address. So being how our mileage bonus works I didn't want short miles to keep me under any bonus threshold. Besides everyone I talk to is on practical or would like to be. I've heard many explanations of the difference and turns out they were all wrong at least to some degree as I came to learn today.
see when goggling hhg vs. Practical top results came from this site which were truckers who apparently were as confused as I was. So I finally got to a FAQ's on Randy McNally's milemaker website, ya know the software that dispatchers use for routing, and there was the answer from the horse's mouth. I will summarize and then later post a link to where I read it:

Both are zipcode to zipcode. HHG is shortest TRUCK route and practice takes time into account which I characterize as fastest route. But both are Truck routes allowing for 80k and 13'6". So our company pays 6% more on newbie side of scale and 5% more on experienced side of pay scale(2 cents across board) for HHG vs. Practical in an effort, I assume, to compensate for diff in shorter route paid.

Now I almost always have heard there is an avg of 10% diff between the two but once I understood short route vs fast route I run some routes that I be done recently through Randy's intelliroute gps. What I found was a 2 to 3% diff in miles meaning I would have been in the$ by 3-4% on these routes.

Please don't make a pay decision based upon this thread as I'm not sure I have all my facts straight but I may be getting close enough for me to jump over to hhg and test it out. But please do your own research and don't believe everything you read or hear. A lot of good intention folks just have there facts mixed up so find out for yourself.

 

http://trucking.randmcnally.com/ctonline/support/support_milemaker.jsp

This the page I got it from. I believe the FAQ is the 21st from the top, or there abouts.

 

We log what we drive and are fortunate that company let's us choose the route we want to drive. Basically just get from a point a to b in an efficient manner.

Also I would love to have someone talk me out of changing and would like to figure out how to get my hands on some software like milemaker even in a demonstration format.

 

If you mean if we could get paid hub miles, Absolutely! As far as logging the electronic logs aren't flexible and by this time next year the entire fleet will have them as everyone will have 2008 trucks or newer.

 

Can't argue with that. Id choose hub miles but our hours are more valuable than many things we have to waste them on.