Actual pay for mileage

You might run 2500 miles (hub miles), but many companies won't pay you 2500 miles -- even if their own routing is a full 2500 miles. Paid miles are often 10% to 15% less than route miles.

 

Just hope you are paid practical miles not shortest route miles...

 

I was a little confused about the OP's post then went and looked at his profile and I'm guessing that you drove for 18 years 28 years ago and are now just coming back on the road. Good luck as I now understand why an 18 year vet would ask that question!Yes some will "say" one thing but look at the waythe ad read and the recruiter says it. When they tell you "up to x cents a mile" you can expect something less! Get them to commit to a fixed rate before you walk out the door to head to orienation! They won't!

A Comdata card is BEST used as your fuel card ONLY unless the insist that YOU do the check writing for lumperss and repairs but be sure you have a PO number or QC conformation to CYA!. Have direct deposit to your bank account! Use your bank card for your weekly allounance. I got mine when I stocked up at WallyWorld. No bank charges for getting your money! Use cash out of pocket and not your bank card when making food or other smaller purchaces. ID theift is a PITA to get out from under! I ONLY use my bank card at whereever it is I'm stocking up at that also gives me an option to get cash back. Screw thiose overpriced ATM costs! Do you really believe it costs $3 a person to make, stock and repair those things? Not in this lifetime!

It's a good idea to read the contract you sign when you hire on and not fall for the "we're in a hurry" line a lot of companies feed you in orienation and you sign your money away. Along with your sanity!

Go through the company hand book and highlight all the "we'll take money from you" items and then match them up with the pay stub! Those morons that fine you for being a few minutes late on a check call, being late when it's their fault that you got a dispatch after the load was to be picked up or drawing a line crooked in the book or charge you for mechanical problems on their POS equipment AND POS equipment they want ME to sign for in THAT condition will see my back and heels as I head out the door of that orientation room! If there are more than 3 chairs at a table in the "orientation" room then that is a good sign that this might not be the company for you also! Make a note when you walk in or even at the motel as to how many are "orienting!" LOL I just hope you didn't take a bus and drove yourself there!

Keep COPIES of all paperwork that goes through your fingers. This is EVERYTHING that you either took money out of your pocket or used a company account for.
Keep every PO number. Every receipt every scale, wash or washout ticket everything!
If you spent a penny out of your pocket on that truck, trailer, or company you want that money back and if you don't have a copy of that receipt as has happened and will keep on happening, receipts will commit suicide by jumping out of Trip Pack, UPS and any other envelope that you put them in! Lowlife can't keep their heads above water WILL lose a receipt just to keep that money in their bank accounts!

Do you have a computer and a scanner? Then scan them into the computer and then backup that information several ways! Email it to yourself. put it on 1 or 2 flash drives, burn it to CD, store it on one of those on line storage sites but keep a copy! (the computer, flash drives, cds, scanner and cost of on line storage site is tax deductible!) Paper copies just take up room! You can make a paper copy if you need to walk it into the office or send it in a trip pak. If this company is so far back in times that they demand a dino fax then ask them for a PO number for the stupid and wasteful cost of the fax! Me, if bozo and company can't figure out how to print from an email I'd be looking for someone that doesn't believe in wasting good money on the dedicated line, the cost of that dinosaur sitting in the room, the cost of sending faxes out bound abd that stupid cost that truck stops pound them for!
Not to mention that those who wait on the future live in the past!

Yeah I'll keep up with the world if you don't mind!

POINT: You KNOW that the route is 100 miles but every company out there uses SHORT MILES to pay you! So expect to get paid -12% on that run or the short miles. There are very few companies that pay off the hub or even close to the actual miles on the freaking POS route they send you! But it's "fair" to them isn't it! Not worrying about the real money makers in the company!

 

Anyone know anything about buchanan hauling out
of richmond.va

 

you put this in this thread why?? did you even google them ? did you use the search engine in the above menu bar? You would have gotten this: http://www.thetruckersreport.com/tr...info=1&photoplog_searchquery=buchanan+hauling When you join a forun everyone I've ever seen has a search enginge so before your first post look for the correct place to post and do a search first!