Practical Miles vs Hub Miles

Why not? It's their truck , their load, their authority and their P&L.

Of course they should pay you for it, it's part of the job is it not?

They won't, but I disagree that they shouldn't, darned right they should.

 

The company I work for pays off the ofometer, every mile no matter what we’re doing. Like today, I’m loading in Calgary for Idaho Falls but I’ll be paid to go home to Missoula for the weekend. I’ll never work at a place that pays computer miles.

 

Not well.

 

Since we started running our own loads again, we started paying actual miles. Any driver that wants to take the scenic route can then take the short route home, and take all their stuff out of of the truck. Never happened yet. Each ELD has a tracking history on it, so it's pretty easy to catch shenanigans, especially since we pretty much run dedicated routes.

I'm not sure I'd be capable of running a trucking company where both employees and employers are looking for ways to rip each other off. No way to live.

 

I read this, then read my reply again and realized I should’ve been more clear. We don’t do weekends in the truck. All of our drivers are home on the weekends, I didn’t mean to sound like I was going out of route trying to sneak one past the office.

 

I'm sorry if I sounded like I was implying anything, that was not my intent. All I wanted to convey is how far outside of the norm of normal business some of the behavior in this industry iis. Of course it is normal that someone goes home for the weekend, and if the business vehicle is the only one available, that's the vehicle they should take. Not paying a driver for driving to a save parking place en-route seems bizarre to someone who is outside the transportation industry.

 

I didn’t think your comment was directed towards me at all, it did make me realize that I wasn’t very clear with my original reply though.

 

It boils down to do you think you are fairly compensated for the work you are doing? Hub miles, HHG miles, PC Miler, hourly pay, salary, it doesn't really matter. What your paycheck is coming out to is what matters.

My company pays HHG and I make 52 cpm, and get pretty substantial bonuses weekly on top of that (I average $350 a week in bonuses). Over the years, my hub miles have been 9 - 10% higher than my "dispatched miles" that i am paid for. This percentage also includes quite a few deadhead miles where I headed home that are unpaid (frequently 200+ miles). I do get paid for the deadheads coming off of hometime.

For me, taking a job that paid hub miles
at 46 cpm would be a paycut, all other things being equal. Take out my bonuses pay, and the job would have to pay me more than 52 cpm to equal what I make.

 

Sounds like carrot and stick
They cheat you up front and then give it back on the backside as long as you jump through the hoops.
Why not just pay the 52 cpm up front?
Oh well, as long as your happy I guess.

 

I drive around 2200 miles per week. 2200 × 0.52 = $1,144 + $350 comes out to $1,494 per week.

2200 ÷ 90% = 2,445 × 0.52 comes out to $1,271 per week.

Clearly my company is cheating me.

 

On the zip code to zip code pay scale, what happens when say for instance you have a delivery in Montana where there’s like 3 zip codes? That’s a lot of mileage shorted.