Zip Code To Zip Code?

Just wondering if this is accurate? I've heard the dispatch miles.of a run are from zip to zip. Which means if you zip codes are 800 miles apart, but you are physically located 20 miles inside your first zip, and your destination is 20 miles inside your second zip, that there is 40 miles on that run you don't get paid for?

Just wondering if that is accurate

Yap, that's accurate. Normally the paid miles will be around 5% - 10% less than the actual miles you run. Once in a great while it will be a little more than that, but it shouldn't be.

Here's the thing also. Pay attention to the actual miles versus the paid miles and make sure it doesn't go above a 10% difference. If it does, let dispatch know. What happens is that the salespeople that book freight like to try to keep the rates higher so sometimes they'll actually negotiate the number of paid miles for the run. So instead of dropping their rate from $1.50 per mile to $1.40 per mile they'll agree to drop the paid miles from 1,170 to 1,010. Whatever they negotiate the paid miles to be is what they're going to pay the driver. Sounds strange, I know, but that's one way it's done.

So if by chance you see the paid miles are too low for a run let dispatch know and see if they'll raise it a little bit. If it's off by like 15% they normally will. Now that isn't to say you're going to be able to negotiate better miles all the time. But once in a while you'll find a big discrepancy and the company knows they're going to have trouble keeping their best drivers if they heavily short-change them on miles.

It makes a huge difference in trip planning at times. Figure you are told it's a 1000 mile run..add 10%... now it's really 1100 miles... . That just added 2 additional hours to your trip planning.

It sucks... but if we got paid actual..Iles I imagine drivers would be circling customers for hours hahahaha