Difference between Pratical and HHG payscales

You get paid more miles with practical mileage. HHG miles are from the center of the city. If your delivery is 10miles to the east of the center of the the city then you would not get paid those 10 miles.

 

All true. You can think of it this way... HHG miles are a way of rating each load you pull, and assigning a monetary value to it. Companies that use practical miles (from what I've heard - no experience here) are totally down on you using the vehicle for anything but moving the load from shipper to receiver - that's because they're paying you for an exact number of odometer measured miles. My company uses HHG - if you go out of route a few miles to get to WalMart for a fridge restocking run, it's no big deal. Right now, with freight down and the rates depressed because of the economy, I really don't think it matters much which way you get paid by.

 

hhg is paid zip code to zip cod . so i f you are on the far side of dallass , tx and have to go to ft worth , tx abou 45 miles or so you get paid 1 mile cause you only change zip codes once.....i had plenty of experiance with this one cause my old company is in dallass , tx ....

 

For OTR I don't really think it makes much of a difference. If you're doing a run across Dallas on a regular basis, you'd be better off being paid hourly - especially in that traffic!

 

Maybe I'm wrong but aren't 'practical miles' just like HHG but a little more accurate? Both are predetermined and not based on the odometer like hub miles would be.

 

Neither - what's more important is your starting cents-per-mile, and how that progresses over time. HHG vs practical is a non-issue, promoted by companies trying to attract more talent than other companies.

According to the companies that promote this, it's based on actual miles driven - but if that's the way they're paying, you can be sure that they are going to be pissed if you take a little side trip to WalMart if it's more than just beside the exit from the big road.

 

Companies using Quallcom, can force a route change to make up the difference, (using the Laughlin vs Dam scenario), Swift in the winter would let us go over to US 95 from Bishop to get from Fontana to Reno, instead of staying on US 395, driver manager would show the route change in the routing and we got paid the miles difference. Same with Vegas to Phoenix when they closed the Dam, but, you had to get ahold of your DM and get the change done. They still don't advertise the fact you have to let someone know you are doing it..