What is the REAL average mileage a company driver runs?

Your calculations only work if every driver in the company is running in the same application. Any dedicated drivers, regional drivers, or local drivers are going to skew the average numbers down for everybody. If you want an average mileage for OTR applications, you'd need to know total miles for only the OTR segment, then divide by the total number of OTR drivers, which is a number you'd also need to know.

You said "take it for what it's worth", and what most of us are trying to say it's "It ain't worth a goat turd", unless you're simply trying to assign a single number to every tractor in a company's fleet.

Even my company, that does work exclusively OTR, wouldn't render a realistic number because we have a couple of part-timers and a couple of dray tractors that run back and forth into town to retrieve drop trailers. Those trucks are going to dramatically skew down the results unless they're tossed out of the calculation, and the only way you can know that is to get numbers from operations...and you're not going to have access to that before you work for a company, if at all.

Your method is a complete red herring, and has no use for the purpose you claim.

 

And I thought our trucks were slow.

 

Thats not going to be very accurate. Too many variables within any given company as no 2 drivers average the same or 'similar' miles on a consistent basis.

I advise new drivers to take this with a grain of salt. This is this is the same as a trucking school selling the American dream. Its just not going to end up the same for everyone.

Hurst

 

There's no shame in being uneducated, or corrected. Your method will of course provide a rawaverage, but it's not good for much. If a company has 12 drivers, though, it might suggest something. If they have 500, and ~100 of those are O/Os, who tend to always get more miles, it renders the raw average little if any use to the company driver.

 

Ask not, how many miles your company will give you but what you will get paid for miles driving with your company.

 

For instance. It would take the average truckload company driver about 3500 miles to match our guys at 2000. That's not counting the home time, paid time off, holidays, healthcare etc. If you'd figure that in. Then your looking at another Seattle vs Denver game.

 

First there are three different types of Averages. Not that it matters.

What Vito has provided is a tool. Only a tool for us to use if we are looking for comparisons. It has its limitations. But IT IS CLOSE ENOUGH FOR GOVERNMENT WORK.

Giving us another tool is always helpful so I thank you. I am doing my taxes right now. And I am sure I worked harder then what the bottom line says.

 

Well first of all these newbies think everything is a mathematical calculation. This is trucking!! Just when you think you have it figured out. There's another monkey wrench thrown in. I don't care how many Forum post you read. You will never know the deal until you behind the wheel. Here are a couple of rules from my soon to be best seller. SUPER TRUCKING FOR DUMMIES.

1. DON'T BE AVERAGE. Average drivers/Steering wheel holders get average miles. Be above average. Be SUPER. Be an Asset to your company and not a Liability, and your miles will be above the average. Fuel mileage, Safety, Being 2 steps ahead of your dispatchers and planners. PS. It's kinda hard to be SUPER if you are at a Super MEGA who don't really give (2 girls 1 cup).

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