how trucking companies determine miles on a run ?

Btw, the company I work for now uses Google Maps for mileage purposes. So, I rarely get screwed out of pay anymore. In fact, in some instances I discovered shortcuts that are actually shorter than what they pay me on a given dispatch.

 

I love the way we do it, the company has a book of flat rates for all cities, towns within the 9 states we operate. Since I'm, paid by percentage, I don't care if the mileage is off or not, within reason. But, here's the nice part, recently did a HHG load going from Denver to Delta, Co. They gave us the address of storage place, what they didn't tell us was only some things went there, the rest went to the house. Dispatch had me track my miles from the storage place to the house and back, then charged them $1.85/mile for those miles, about 61 miles. The customer was not happy when they got the extra charge, but TFB, if they had told us everything from the start, they wouldn't have had the extra mileage charge.

 

Move on to somewhere better. I get hub miles and don't have much more experience than you. It's out there.