Jan 12, 2021
Mileage has traditionally been used by truckload carriers as the basis for pricing loads, billing customers and paying drivers. In this low-margin industry, however, time has always been the more important denominator.
ELDs have been the impetus for motor carriers moving to time-based driver pay models.
Increasingly, motor carriers are converting to time-based measurements to create alignment between these critical business processes. As part of this effort many are using their data and information systems to create hourly and salary driver pay models.
Electronic logging devices (ELDs) were the impetus of this change by creating operational visibility of where time and money is being wasted. Beyond ensuring drivers are complying with hours-of-service rules, the technology captures a minute-by-minute record of the 14-hour duty cycle to see where time is used on productive and non-productive activities.