Practical-HHG-Short Miles...The Scam On Truckers

And if you check out the miles with practical miles, you're getting shorted with those also.

 

What did you read. 1. The owner didn't question the driver until the mile went form 30 to 35 miles over the actual ( not hub, practial or hhg ) miles. 2. How is the owner scaming the driver that drives 30 miles off route to see his friend. 3. The owner is paying for the miles, about $28 in extra fuel, not to mention the extra wear and tear. This could amount to $140 a week time 6 trucks is $840 dollars. Now tell me who is getting scamed?

 

Let see the driver is being ripped off because the company complains that the driver is out of route by 30 miles, because he wants to go see his girl friend and wants to be paid for it. REALY???

I hope there are not a lot of people that think that comment makes sense.

 

Well...as far as I would be concerned as an owner would be this....

I wouldn't have no problem paying hub miles,even paying the extra miles if driver had to take a detour due to some unforeseen circumstance like a road closure or something of that nature.

I wouldn't pay the extra miles just so someone can go see a friend...I as an owner wouldn't be paying you to go on a trip to see friends but rather deliver a customers freight.

 

exactly my point. True story: A number of years ago when Qualcoms were first being put into trucks my boss called me into his office. He asked me if I wanted to take a look at the something on the Qualcom so being interested in the new gadgets I said sure. He told me that one of the drivers average miles always seemed higher than everyone elses and couldn't figure out why as we all did the same trips. He then showed me the screen on the computer. The guy was on a return trip from LA to Phoenix which we did all of the time and the Qualcom showed the location of the guys truck and asked me "The guys going from LA to Phoenix on I 10, what the hell is his truck doing in Las Vegas?" What the guy was doing was angling for Friday loads out of LA and going up to Vegas for the weekend coming back to Phoenix Monday morn for his delivery. He then spread the extra miles out onto his other trips during the week so his average trips were always longer than everyone else's to hide the miles.
Guys like that are why we get HHG. Most companies and certainly the larger ones don't have the time to research every drivers route.

 

I "fixed" my problem. I run 48 states and Canada by the HOUR! You and the majority of the industry are still crying and job hopping. Be a man and do something about it and if you don't/won't quit yer batchin'.

 

I thougt Baldwin was all fleece purchase or O/O