How is mileage calculated?

Some carriers still use household goods miles, but those numbers are dwindling. Most pay practical and some pay hub miles. More and more are paying practical. That is pretty close to actual miles. It is the most practical route for a big truck. That would be a good question to ask a recruiter.

 

Some like to modify HHG miles even further by calling them zip code miles. So they might have the driver pick up on one side of the big city and deliver to the next town over, but zip code wise is only 1 mile paid for sometimes 7 hours of work, live loading, unloading etc.

 

One word answer:

Short.

....those orange obama-roads man...

 

Schneider is hhg miles. I'm on the lease side and most of the time even PC Miler short route is longer than the paid miles. Also the route that's in the QC. For your load will often route you on a longer route than what your getting paid.
I've also been told straight out its hhg miles when I questioned them about not being paid appropriately for an empty I chased

 

the trucking company is always going to pay the miles that favor them in some way. b safe out there

 

one instance of a load you'll get screwed on. is any town on the east side of yellowstone going to any town in any state on the west side of yellowstone.

your mileage pay routes through yellowstone. to which trucks aren't allowed. so you'll get screwed out of 150 miles.

now that may work accordingly with different companies, but so far i've worked for 3 and that's what happened. they go by mapquest miles. which isn't designed for trucks.

 

Mine pays city to city, from google maps.

Those mother #######.

 

It depends upon the company. I've worked for one that still paid HHG, didn't stay there long, but that was over a decade ago. I've worked for those that paid practical miles, still not correct but closer. Some actually pay hub miles like where I'm at now. Fed Ex has set miles that my line haul runs pay (USUALLY within a mile or two) but my contractor pays me the hub miles I run because some of the runs, like South Bend to Detroit (Livonia), Fed Ex uses the google map directions 80/90 to 131 to 12 all the way to 275 for paid mileage even though Fed Ex routing routes us 80/90 to 69 to 94. And sometimes, in some hubs I can drive around 2-4 miles chasing trailers that aren't where they're supposed to be.

I do understand why most companies do not pay actual miles because as it is said, it only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole bunch.

 

Others may or may not agree with me on this, but I believe that paid mileage is the number one rip-off that companies get away with in this business. I would get some loads that were about 20% off when calculated by shortest route. Some drivers compound the problem by sticking to interstate driving only. They never seem to learn that there are a lot of really good state roads out there.