The reason HHG and rand mcnally miles are still paid today IS NOT to short the driver or rip him off in any way. Its about competition for freight. If you are paid HHG miles, the company is being paid HHG miles too by the customer. It seems many drivers think the company is charging the customer hub miles, paying the driver HHG miles and just pocketing the rest. Thinking its all some big conspiracy so the CEOs can get a new yacht. Simply put it goes like this. Company A bids for freight with 600 paractical miles.....Company bid comes in and bids for freight with 560 HHG miles.....>Who gets the freight?
Personally, Im convinced if everyone went to paractical miles, just as many people would still be griping that practical miles is still not hub miles.
A little side story for you Cluggy on the same subject of miles, I think you will like.
I "inadvertantly accidently" lied to a driver yesterday. Yep Me, a recruiter who prides himself on being honest actually lied......
I had a job opened up yesterday. Local day cab job which actually paid Hub miles. (first job Ive seen like that) I told the driver about the job. Was honest about the pay. I then told him he would be running about a 150-200 mile radius of his area and home every night. ( just an educated guess). he was excited about the job and I set him up for an interview. About two hours later, I get a call from the manager over that account who interviewed him. He was laughing and told me everything was going great with the interview and all of a sudden the driver stood up and started cussing about me lying to him and stormed out. I couldnt figure out what I could have possibly lied about and called the driver back. After being cussed out for a moment I finally got him to calm down and tell me. It seems when I told him he would be running 150-200 mile radius, it was more like a 200-250 mile radius. Keep in mind, this was still a daycab job. Home everynight and off every weekend. For some reason the driver didnt like the fact that he would be getting a few more HUB MILES than I originally told him......Go figure