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You're quite the exception Oragonads.

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I wouldn't say that. I would say it depends on the driver.....I am regional, I drive less miles than what they pay me on average(one run I do, I get paid for 239 miles, the way I go it is only 210), but I also don't follow the GPS and deliver to a lot of the same places, so I know a lot of short cuts.

 

i need some help badly to make a decision, im looking at leasing a truck from schneider but i would like to know how much of the lease payment goes to the actual value of the vehicle if at the end of the lease i want to buy it?

 

and you missed it on your pre-trip inspection

 

Gotta balance the shorter routing versus actual driving time sometimes, though. You guys certainly ARE the exceptions, however. Very rare were the times I drove fewer miles than paid miles on any given load.

 

Do most people here do 15 min pretrips? I was told a 15 min pretrip is fine but my teammate keeps doing 30-40 min pretrips even though he checks the truck for ten minute tops. He just wastes the rest doing nothing which makes me mad because that's losing money since the time is not being used for driving.

 

I think it's the fact you're in the Western area. I'm Midwest regional and almost all of where I go pays less than actual miles. The last time I looked at my records it was about 6% yet my out of route on the scorecard is 1.52%. When I go from Minneapolis to just South of Indie it ends up that paid miles are 10% less than actual. You Western area drivers also seem to get more weekly miles, got to be because deliveries are further apart.

 

Thats what im thinking. My out of route last quarter was -something

 

I have....the load I do, my route is shorter distance and time wise. I have another route I do, the route I go is exactly 5 miles longer than the route the company wants me to go......but my way takes 40 mins less.

SNI pays the way they pay. Everyone knows when they start with them how they pay, it should be no surprise to anyone, they are very very upfront about it. Heck, when I was OTR, I got a load from Columbus to Fontana......the paid miles were 78 miles more than what I drove to get there.

 

I will say this for SNI....there were several ocassions over the years where the paid miles were grossly short of the actual, so they were adjusted. The run that comes to mind was a load of water out of Maine going to somewhere in MA. The paid miles was basically impossible to do, and about 80 short of the actual needed miles (the paid miles was fewer than 300, so 80 represented more than 25% of the miles paid!). The amount was so short that they did change it. Many companies would not have.