Prior to the railroad using time tables, and an act of Congress setting up time zones. Each town set high noon when it was really high noon according to the sun. We now now enjoy a Universal Coordinated Time (UTC), or its sometimes referred as Zulu or GMT. In the year 1593, by an act of the British Parliament and signed by Queen Elizabeth I, it was 5,280 feet in a mile. The U.S. defined the mile many years later, but it's still 5,280 feet. There's also an official standard for the kilometer for our friends to the north and the rest of the world. In the trucking world, there's hub miles, odometer miles, route miles, loaded miles, empty miles, paid and unpaid miles. If we as a nation can agree on time and time zones, then why can't a mile be a mile? With the advent of GPS, computer assisted routing using satellite imaging, and other means to track actual miles, it should be easy to figure out the real miles for a run. Routes approved for trucks and non approved truck routes should be well defined and easy to plug into a "Truck Routing Computer Program". Any company with over 1,000 trucks should not have to use a car based system such as Google Maps to figure out a correct route with little variance between paid miles and true miles.
Miles, miles, and more miles.
Discussion in 'Swift' started by Caboose, Jan 19, 2013.
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