Picking my own freight baby! My journey to & of being on Schneider choice, the Adventure & Numbers!

I was leased to a company once that the miles were always short, sometimes by a large amount. One of the dispatchers was a lady who worked from home (small company), she was honest to a fault. We talked a lot and one night as I was complaining about the short miles she said something very close to the "yeah, I wish we could dispatch practical miles like we used to. They said it was costing the company money. What we do now is bid practical and dispatch shortest".

And that is why companies do it. Because it makes THEM money.

 

therefore......going forward. I honestly believe that the courts are going to find Swift liable. You can't dodge responsibility for paying people properly by asserting, "this is how we figure our miles." Furthermore, if upon disclosure it is found that Swift is actually charging their customers the proper miles, yet compensating based on HHG miles, the poop is gonna hit the fan at warp speed.

 

The really crappy thing about that load board is it uses air miles to calculate deadhead. You get some major variance there.

 

the point is, Whipper, they don't because they don't want to; not because they can't

 

No. Of course not. But what's the issue exactly if you are on percentage. Even in the big cities that have a wider range of inaccurate miles depending on what side of the city they are on...it still shouldn't be enough of a variance to affect the rate more than a couple pennies.

Different if you are a mileage guy.

 

Tell me why there systems magically are all different?

From Vandalia OH to London KY we all know shipper and consignee, once they enter in miles it's done, it does not calculate every time a load is entered it just pulls up stored info. So why not fix the stored info? Because if they put correct info in then the tool we all use would show alot lower rate per mile.

Just because it's like it is don't mean we should just accept it.

 

Difference is because we're all really mileage drivers just a sliding mileage scale then when you book it our accepted rate per mile drops even more because the miles can be really far off.

If we were truly on a % program, they'd list Total LHL rate, FSC rate, Access rate and then show our 65% cut without FSC. Along with pick up and delivery points.
No mileage whatsoever.