Miles are off and change.....

That sucks.

 

You need to decide are these issues honest mistakes, in which case you send a message indicating they made a mistake and please adjust your pay. Make sure to detail the facts and then ask someone to adjust your pay or explain why no pay adjustment is coming. If you are very closely watching the details, and they know it, they may fix the problem or simply stop "screwing up" on your check.

If you think this is a deliberate practice, find another job. Don't make it an issue but warn other drivers. When you warn don't accuse the company but say something more like "have you noticed if XYZ is happening on your paycheck?"

This is why the most important thing to do when looking for a job is talk to current drivers. One of the questions to ask those drivers is "have you noticed the company shorting your miles or frequently "forgetting" to pay you for some of your work?"

 

Ask for an explanation

 

Could be they are skimming stuff off to screw you out of money, ask a higher up in the company about it. "I did this load from A to B 3 times and each time it had different paid miles from the exact same shipper to exact same receiver, why is that?"

Is the route you drive for each load planned by the company? If so, maybe the differences could be due to slight differences in the routing by the load planners. Including things like fuel stops away from a direct path from zip code to zip code (which is how most companies calculate miles).

 

Well u said u feel like ur underpaid for the work u do and that is the problem. There is to many good companies out there that will pay u what u think is fair . Why stick around at a place when u feel ur underpaid and on top of that they are cutting ur miles ? For what its worth most companies only pay zip code to zip code . U are always gonna be short or long on some . And they are always gonna caluculate the shortest route even if that route takes the longest and burns more fuel. Which happens out west .

 

You get paid either HHG(house hold mover guide) which is zip to zip or PCMiller miles (aka practical miles). With HHG you get a few percent less miles vs practical miles. But even practical miles sow you a little short vs actual miles. Both these systems were put in place to give consistency in routing miles from place to place so quoting costs are standardized on loads.

If there’s a significant difference, then you may not be following the route correctly. Often times, the system uses shortest routing, which takes you the slow way via small towns on US or State routing, even though using a turn pike or interstate would save you an hour or more. NJ is a great example where you may be routed via US1 even though NJTP would save a ton of time.

 

Some companies pay city-to-city. I drove from NW Houston all the way to the SE side and got ZERO deadhead miles. It's a complete ripoff.

 

I had a similar trip. I had delivered in Phoenix and picked up in Phoenix. Paid 1mi on a 15mi deadhead.