National Distributors,Beware "Air Miles"

REALLY? OH MAN there are a lot of drivers getting bent and making it harder for the next slob to go to work for them!

 

I know I get % pay but if your on miles the company I work at pays practical miles from city center to city center. Sometimes it screws you a few miles and some times you make a few miles on it but if you take the shortest route you always end up ahead, always. If you get paid by air miles, that is a joke! I would hate to run say from Chicago to San diego on air miles. Probably be short by about 500 miles or so....

 

might as well be your dum#as@ paying for it !!

 

??? How do you figure? Not always and very seldon do you "come out ahead" because that shortest route can take you through a town or city with more lights and backed up traffic on a good day than you can imagine adding TIME to the route. It's the few miles that are saved on "shortest" routes but when you add the extra time then you lose more than you save. Every PC Miler route I've run and put in compare mode the short route, if the route is already "short" is longer in time. That log book with those 15 minute intervals is the most important thing in the truck. Every one of those little 1/4 hourly marks are worth more than those shorter miles ever will be! Even if you own the truck! Is your time not worth more if you lose it by saving a few miles? Not in my book! I'm NOT getting paid by the hour but if I were THEN shortest is the way I'll always go!

Most companies that rely on college educated graduates that did not take the preventive management class because it didn't add any credits because it was actually a free class in most colleges do not think about those things. They have those blinders on and think shortest is the way to go and looks great ON PAPER (we ALL know that joke!) and might scream when the drivers look at that route and say screw it and go the practical route which is another problem with many people on the planet. They do not know the meaning of words! Why do they think it's called practical? Because it might be the better way? Or as the book defines it: "having or put to a practical purpose or use."

Case in point: The practical route on from the TA truck Stop at Dallas Pike, WV to the intersection of I-70 and I-76 at New Stanton, Pa is stay on I-70 until you go through the toll and are now on I70/76. Paid miles is 62.0 and takes :58 minutes at posted speed (in the program!)

The shortest is 60.4 and takes 1:15. OK the hours will both be drawn ON a log as 1 hour and 1:15 so first you save a whole 1.6 miles! But it takes on paper where everything looks great only an additional :15 minutes BUT here is the actual short route and believe me if you follow it you WILL drive longer than that route I've done it due to that stretch of road either being shut down to the daily truck wreck OR construction because that whole section of interstate was and still is at what PA thought an Interstate highway should be built as and threw the federal "it really works" guidelines away! It CAN take an hour to go those less miles! ESPECIALLY if said truck wreck or construction back up puts traffic onto the route! It WILL take longer to go that "shorter" route on those fun occasions!

OR actual 31.7 miles on a two lane county road! Those are PA 136 and PA 31!

So what have we learned?
Be cause some idiot cheap arsed company thinks that just paying a driver those short routes is saving them money should make the drivers drive those routes! Not if they know the above!

You drivers that are paid those short route miles should drive those short miles and watch those morons in the office crap bricks when the bills and stats start to change! If everyone of you world refuse to bend over like a $2 street walker you would be treated better by those BFI scum sucking companies or at least paid a little bit better even if all those programs do still short you a few miles on the practical routes which on some you can actually drive shorter and not even do either of their program routes! I've done it many times and all I actually get is a few dollars but the thrill of out smarting my computer!

Drive smarter not shorter but do drive their shorter crap to screw the company out of that money they are putting in ...want to guess whose pocket?....... THEIRS!

 

i drive for ndl and the miles they dispatch im always with in 10% on every trip im very sorry that ndl was not for you but i really feel that the comany is and will better off with out someone like you i have been im trucking since 1989 and i have never had a company that treats drive with the respect that a driver gets here it is the last of sept. and i have made $52.000 year date

 

I have driven for a while and I have never heard of air miles. This is a sure way to screw over drivers, much worse the HHG. Just my .02.

 

Except that NDL pays PC Miler Shortest, not "air miles" (otherwise known as HHMG). And actually, with a lot of the routes/customers we have, I haven't seen much OOR here. Often it is the same as practical due to lack of legal truck routes.

[/shrugs]

 

Just think if they told everyone we are now going to pay you within 10% of what we actually owe you for the work you did.

OK so you don't mind getting soaked for up to 5.2k because you banked 52k, but I hope you know that they could tell you within feet how far it was from point A to point B.

Up to a 10% pay cut before you even leave the yard? Thats the kind of respect I can do without

Company's spend billions on new Tech but when it comes to accurately paying the drivers? well now, wheres the profit in that ?

 

FFS!
CHECK THE LAST POST DATE!

This thread is almost 3 years old - and on your first post no less.

Company shill for Nussbaum perhaps?

 

Soon as the mod's see it his post total will be back down to 0