Where the trucks sit between loads, and where empty miles are counted from and back to.
Also called: Hub, Home base, Terminal.
Does it pay the driver? Not a pay item.
A place, not a pay item; it is where empty miles begin and end.
The yard is the fixed point in a driver’s week. The empty miles to the first pickup start there and the empty miles after the last drop end there, which is why an owner who pays empty miles needs the yard on the map.
For a single-truck operator the yard may be the driveway. It is still the place the empty miles are figured from.
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Empty miles — Miles driven without freight: from the yard to the pickup, and back to the yard after the drop.
