Difference between practical miles and hub miles?

Miles they screw you out of.

 

practical is city center to city center. it keeps drivers from taking a loop around the city or the long way to get more miles, basically in place to keep driver's honest.

hub miles are actual miles from terminal to terminal and are usually mapquested/google mapped before hand and pre-determined.

actual miles are what you "actually drove from point a to point b"

 

Hub miles is what the odometer shows. Practical miles came about based on the route for which it is practical to operate a semi tractor and trailer weighing 80,000 pounds. Hub miles on average are three to six percent more than practical .... usually.

 

Just hope you don't get the Household good miles, always at least 10% off

 

I think 10% is about average.Some bigshot exec. gets a big fat bonus every year for screwing his drivers out of those miles.
Those that can't make it,steal it.
All others buy politicians and dictate compliance.

 

three to six percent

 

Rand McNally serves as the Practical miles folks. http://maps.randmcnally.com/mileage-calculator.do This is their calculator. If you have a Garmin or some other GPS that does trucking routing you will have to enter the information in the GPS to figure out that. Or drive the route and find out. Remember, no one will ever change the rules of a game to help the other guy. Hub miles are what you so be paid for, but you also must make sure you don't drive out of the way and screw your company.

 

and im sure there were dishonest drivers at one point that thought it was cute to bilk the company for an extra 20-30 miles at each city. do that long enough, often enough it gets expensive. two way street.

in my opinion, they should make point it to point, but they pre-determine the route and if you deviate, that's your fault and you're liable for the extra fuel used and you don't get the extra miles.