Paid miles???

All the companiesI drove for got t got me home was within a 50 mile radius.My last company they always found a receiver in my city and come time to go out always picked up loads in my city.Either cookies or coke.You know companies could get a driver home a few days early or a few days late to save on all that fuel because a better load comes up but they wont do that and most drivers don't like the idea getting home later and companies don't like the idea getting drivers home earlier.Alot of companies really don't think on the fuel expense because they don't have to pay for it.I have deadheaded 400 miles once just to pick up a load.Unless that load is gold or diamonds who in their right mind would pay all that in fuel.

 

With my company I get paid from the last place I dropped..sometimes thats good .. sometimes thats bad. I have had a drop in Alabama.. dead head 200 miles home.. then 5 days later pick up from the same place in Alabama and get 0 DH miles. I also have dropped in Alabama or Georgia.. went home to Tennessee.. and then got a hot load out of St. Louis or somewhere north.. in that case I get all those dead head miles .. Last drop to next pick up. Regardless of what I actually drive.. I get all practical miles customer to customer. We all wish we got paid to drive home... maybe some do .. but at the same time.. I can run 50 miles out of route through the woods to get by my house under a load my company says nothing. I have had slow frieght on a weekend and Dispatch sent me to the house on my way south or north. It all works out if your with the right company.

 

Youre not stupid.How you going to learn if you don't ask questions.Yes empty means deadhead

 

Newsflash: the nearest city is 50 miles away. They get us as close as they can. Then they pick up the slack when we get a dispatch outta here. As far as I know we have one pick in Tulsa, and one pick in Stillwater. Other than that we run for rubber loads. If the Tulsa or the Stillwater load that week has already been run, we head to rubber country.

 

From 1996 to 1997, I commuted 15 miles one way to a 3rd. shift convenience store gas station job, making this 30 miles round trip. If I worked 5 days a week, that was 150 miles a week round trip. When I would work overtime, sometimes 7 days, that would be 210 miles a week round trip. I was eventually transferred to another station which was 4 miles away or 8 miles a day round trip. This was a HUGE savings on gas, not to mention wear and tear on my car.

I worked for that company for 10 years, (2/26/1996 - 9/17/2006), starting pay was $5.00 an hour, finishing pay was $8.47 an hour.

God bless every American and their families! God bless the U.S.A.!

 

Both companies I worked for paid differently for home time. My first company wouldn't pay any miles I drove from the last place I delivered to home or from home to the next place I picked up.

My current company actually pays my miles to home and to the next dispatched pickup.