Practical Miles or Practically Clueless?

You see those charts in the back of atlas that show distances between cities? Thats how you get paid miles !? Is that deceptive advertising on the part of companies that make their living off drivers, that you make xx cents a mile?

OK, the arguement is that pay will not change. Shippers will simply adjust their rates if carriers change calculations. So change is frowned upon. Bad. Very Bad.

It's bad when your dispatcher expects you to be on one side of town, pick up a load and be on the other side of town, and you get zero miles. You might get "accessorial" pay around $30 if you are fortunate, maybe a lot more.

Load planners become "practically clueless" because actual drive times can not be determined because drivers know the amount of time and the route, but have little if any imput on load schedules for some companies. Suddenly you have 45 minutes to make for because a load planner didn't calculate it becuase of household miles.

And if you are an owner operator, you can face penalties and excess service charges for such oversights and clerical errors.

I would like to see household good miles phased out so that sanity can come into the load planning phase. It eliminates deceptive advertising to new drivers? And cities should adopt zoning requirements that require businesses that accept big trucks to post visible entrance and exit signs, names on their buildings and directions to their facitilities as part of doing business. Seems like common sense, but a lot businesses loose time and money because it seems like too much effort?

Drivers go to a lot of effort to train and become drivers, facilities can spend thirty minutes to put up some couple of signs. We're professional truck drivers, not professional guessers (lol)?