Gettting Paid empty

This is something that varies from company to company.

Most of the large companies (and just about any that pays mileage pay) will pay for all authorized empty miles. By authorized it's generally limited to any deadheading involved when getting from point A (where you just delivered) to point B (where you're to pick up your next load). I once deadheaded over 1000 miles (from Spokane, WA to Salinas, CA) to pick up a load on New Year's Eve. This was due to the shortage of available trucks at that time of year.

As to going home and coming back out, this varies widely from company to company. A lot of companies won't pay you to go home (if you're going home empty), but will pay for you to come out of the house and pick up a load. Some others won't pay you either way. Again, this is only if you go home empty.

Some companies pay you on a percentage of the gross amount the load pays the truck. In these instances you won't be paid for any amount of deadheading.

Hope this helps.

 

Yeah empty miles when leaving from home time varies from company to company. Swift will pay me empty miles to the pickup from where I last dropped before going to home time. But if you are out on the road and deliver something and have to go somewhere else to pick it up you will get paid from that point to pick up point... Well from post office to post office miles.