how do truckers get paid by aeronautical or road miles

More than likely you will get paid paid by household movers miles. essentially this is shortest zipcode to zipcode routing (and they don't take truck routing into consideration if required). If you're lucky you will get paid practical miles which is a little closer to the miles you actually run.

 

aeronautical miles..???

new one on me...

i always thought it was "mile radius"


because if it IS aeronautical, then my recent trip to the moon and back, i should have been paid over 2 million dollars..

sounds to me like your instructor ought to go back to NASA and keep teaching those astranuts...

 

Pay varies with carrier . Drivers should refuse to work for drivers paying HHG miles . That's an antiquated system . The better carriers pay practical miles which is close to actual miles . Some carriers pay hub miles which is actual miles shown on the odometer . Instructors at CDL mills give a lot of flawed info .

 

He probably made a mistake and meant air miles.

 

Is that similar to 'as the crow flys'?

 

Then there's percentage to truck. I'm not paid by the mile, but a percentage of what is paid to the truck. This is based on weight or bushel if hauling grains. This can be better than by the mile and can be worse. The bad occurs when the pay is el-stinko for the load. I've hauled material that only paid $8.50 per ton, which came out to about $280 to the truck, then my percent came off of that. In other words, around $50. Most of these loads are short runs, only around 150 miles.

The bad, is the bounces or dead-heading. I get paid zip, zero, zilch, for driving an empty rig. I've done plenty of that recently. Our wise, know everything, uber-intelligent dispatcher has been bouncing us 300 miles for el-cheapo loads. Makes no sense when there are other trucks much closer to these loads. Don't know if the owner even knows he's doing this, or cares for that matter. But I would think it's sure way to sink a company.

 

From what I've been told, no - because crows never fly in a straight line, they zig and zag too much.

 

Household goods movers guide mileage would be most likely. Some companies pay according to PC Miler, usually the shortest route, although a few pay practical truck route miles, and fewer still pay odometer (hub) miles.

The HG miles are between 10 to 20 percent (but closer to 20 LOL) under what the actual mileage is so maybe that's where the instructor got the "aeronautical miles" from; one nm (nautical mile) being 1.15 sm (statute miles).

It should be noted that when distances are measured over roads statute miles are used and for distances measured in straight lines nautical miles are used, generally speaking. Aircraft and ships generally travel in straight lines when not avoiding obstacles or other restrictions on travel.

And then there are those that are paid a percentage of the invoice or a flat rate per trip.

I'm paid hourly for most of the local moves that I do and by the load for one of the clients that I serve.