Actual miles vs. Paid Miles

Well I do get paid all miles wether they are empty, loaded, or deadhead. I pretty much have no say what I do though. Forced dispatch to a point so the closest driver gets the load. Right now with our freight so slow its hard to be picky. My trainer was telling me about 3 months ago it was pretty good cause we had freight going all over so getting home and going where you wanted was pretty easy. Now I just have to take what I can get and hope I will make enough to live. Once I get some experience then I have a few companies that I am going to try to get on with that pay well and get ya home a lot. The jobs are out there just have to push to get one and right now I only have 2 weeks experience so I don't have much pull. LOL

 

More and more companies are switching to PC Miler, some out of industry pressure. It is the up and coming thing. It will never match actual miles. Our company USED to pay hub miles, until a few drivers would intentionally go 200-300 miles out of route every week - thus forcing the owner to switch to practicals. We haul mostly meat from the midwest, and the shippers pay the company based on SHORT miles, so in a way it is costing the boss to continue to pay practical miles. When he switched us from hub to practical, he increased our cpm by .02pm. So he is trying to do what he can. One of the advantages of working with a smaller company with low turnover. The thing about practical miles, though, is that we don't always get to run the practical route if it includes tolls in select states - like Ohio and Indiana, which fleece drivers who go on their toll roads.

 

What would be better? .32/mile on practical route or 34/mile on HHG route? Thanks

 

I would personally take the .32 practical, but right now I'd settle for practically any miles being paid. been off work for a month with no end in sight. Maybe crime does pay........

 

I hear you, I've been out of a job since Dec. 9 (getting unemployment for now) and nobody is hiring.

 

You looking for OTR, or something else?

 

I worked in a carpet mill for past 20 yrs they shut down on Dec. 9. I'm scheduled to start training at Millis Transfer on March 2. If I can find a local factory or anything else that pays enough, I will do that. Trying to keep several options open, but hard to do that when no one is even taking applications.

 

Pretty soon we will all be on welfare. Gotta love our government for letting it get this way.