Practical Miles, Hub Miles, HHG Miles, what's the diff?
Subject says it all. If somebody would lay out the differences, 'twould be mighty helpful to noobs.
Respectfully, BD |
Practical miles: The miles on the most practical route (what most co now pay)
Hub : All miles driven even if you get lost miss turn lap around truckstop. HHG: hosehold movers guide, zip code to zip code , usually 10% or more less miles than practical |
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For every lap I make, I get paid. Hub miles, the only why to get paid by the mile. :D |
Wait, i thought that's what practical miles are: getting paid for every mile you drive.
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Practical mile is calculated on a practical route that is all truck routes from origin to destination and is usually pre determined by your company or broker. Hub miles you turn in the miles you drove and they pay on those miles. Double R You have a good gig there I haven't been paid Hub since the late 80s hang on to that one |
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So true I guess thats the only discount we get out here |
We go by hub miles. Our trucks have hubometers. Of course, we dont get paid by the mile, just by the hour. :? :P
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Practical Miles or Practical routed miles= The distance from post office to post office by the most practical truck route.
HHG or Household Guide= The distance from post office to post office by the absolute shortest route available regardless if it is a truck route. Hub Miles= The actual miles a truck travels between destinations. ================================================ Here is a FYI: Just because a company says they pay by PC Miler or Rand Mcnally miles, etc does not mean much of anything by itself. All it means is that they are using a computer program to determine the milage between destinations. They can still be paying you off of HHG miles. |
Sadly I worked for one company that paid HHG miles to the driver but charged Practical routed miles to their customers.
I did not stay there long once I found that out. Talk about the big rip. |
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I have found the greater distance your trip is and the more the interstates or primary highways are along your route the more accurate HHG will be. The more irregular you route, away from the interstates, the more inaccurate the trip will be, if you drive the interstate or primary state routes, on your trip. Much of the time it is faster to travel major 4 lane limited access roads even though it may be longer in distance from paid miles. Some of my trips from Post Office A to Post Office B have been alot less that the 10% rule of thumb. Others may be a little more, just depends on where A and B are in relation to one another. Even had the occassional (rare) trip where my miles driven was less than HHG. HHG and Practical are just means of determining the way to pay a driver. Since a company really doesnt know how well to trust a driver to drive the shortest or most practical route on a trip, I can understand why most do not pay hub miles. It would come down to trusting the driver to do the right thing. I do wish they would all switch to practical. Much more appropriate with todays highway system Do to many laps around the T/S or get "Lost" to many times you will soon find out how much longer that company will continue to pay you Hub miles. |
I get paid Hub Miles, but I am very honest with my employer. I have gone out of the way to meet a friend and told them to subtract the miles, I will note if there is an out of route due to accidents or construction, and I will run the shortest practical route.
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