OFFICIAL miles statistics for EVERY company

To the OP, thank you. Heartland drivers get around 2400. My friend John who is an o/o for them gets 2000 so that figure is around average give or take a few numbers.

Hunter

 

excellent will do

 

I agree in that Id like to know how they figure out those numbers because it seems low across the board to me.

Dedicated runs can bring down mileage sometimes based on how they are run. I myself dont log in more than 2100ish miles a week. I know another driver who I think doesn't even get 1800. Another that I work with, if I do my numbers right, just gets a tad over 1700.

 

I agree more information is needed to make an intelligent decision. I would want to know how many of those trucks are on a dedicated route, how many are team, how many are local, how many are regional. Have each category of driver separated with days worked and days off listed as well. This would give a clearer view of what each division is actually doing and what it takes to get those miles.

 

Using the FMSCA/Safe stat to gauge doesnt work very well. Problem is they don't keep up to date on the carriers actual truck count. Easiest way for the publicly traded companies, look them up on yahoo under the stock exchange symbol. About a month or two after a quarter they release their earning results. Go to the numbers, not their summary, and take a look at their miles and truck count. You can do the division from there(Miles divided by trucks, dived by 13 weeks in a quarter gives you the average miles per week). Keep in mind that OTR trucks actually average higher then that, but probably not more then 10% higher per week. If the company has lots of dedicated, local, rail trucks etc.. then they reduce the overall average miles per truck as a company. Hope that helps

Wes

 

Well Konaboy,
I prefer the old way of finding out about a companys miles and getting the truth, just ask the recruiter. And also ask other drivers (it's like asking a fisherman "How big was the one that got away?)
Just jerking ya chain ,driver, Thx for input,B safe.

 

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Please note there is ONLY one definition for the term "average", which is defined formally as the ARITHMETIC MEAN. Median and Mode are NOT "averages".

All comments below refer to the Barron's Professional Guides, "Dictionary of Mathenatics Terms", 2nd Edition. The page number is included after each topic.

ARITHMETIC MEAN (19) = for a group of numbers, is the sum of all the numbers divided by the number of terms. This term is commonly called the AVERAGE.

AVERAGE (20) = for a group of numbers, it is the same as the Arithmetric Mean.

MEAN (210) = for a group of numbers, it is the same as Arithmetic Mean.

MEDIAN (210) = is the number such that just as many numbers are greater than it is are are less than it. Median could be the same number as the Mean in some circumstances, but Median is not the same as Mean OR Average or Arithmetric mean.

MODE (212) = is the number that occurs most frequently in a group of numbers.

Otherwise, good discussion and comments.

 

The Safestat records show miles driven . They don't say how many are loaded or deadhead . By the number of trucks and number of drivers you can approximate how many teams they have but you could have a solo driver get more miles per week than a team . These figures also have likely been reduced significantly by many carriers since records were last posted .

 

W/S average looks about right to me based on when I was there.

 

Thanks for that info, i just ran swift thru that and now i cant believe anyone would work for that many miles /week. now i can look at any company and see if they're worth the effort to move to.