mercer transportation

Still has at least one more load after this one to run van. And while it is still early-ish days, I don't have him set up on a weekend run next weekend yet.

 

Question: does anyone know the weight of the flatbed trailers from Mercer?

 

I think you're missing what CJ is saying. You'll be limiting yourself because this is a flatbed company that gets predominately flatbed freight. CJ been here a while and I'm sure studied how he could make a Con work to maximize his rev. I suggest you give it 6 months pulling a trailer from mercer then if you feel like you'll make good money with a Con then do it. And a 53 step Con is Finacial suicide over here.

 

@JLT I am curious about your background now. What are you doing/pulling right now? What's your experiance as an OO? I believe asking questions is a good thing I'm just not sure you are asking the right ones. Don't mind me as I can be a jerk but I think you might need to ask yourself a few more questions. Sounds like you might have a little capital which is a good thing. I just hope you don't blow it on things before you learn how to make money here or anywhere else for that matter. You can't just spend money to make money.

 

Mine was 10400 empty. But I got a Fontaine. Seems Great Danes are more popular and I don't know their weight. I'm sure is similar tho.

 

Well let's see, my empty weight is around 32.5k, my T680 is about 19k, about 1K in equipment, that leaves about 12k for the trailer. Unless my truck weighs less, then the trailer weighs more

 

Waiting on roshea and cactus jay. At maybrook , NY. The old guy beats them again, lol

 

With ELDs no less?

Lol. See they are not so bad after all.

 

Well since you asked, I had 107 trucks up until 09, half reefers and half flats, in those flats were 3 QuickDraw conastoga's . I hauled for UAC out of Canton, Ga to Ks, ca, WA . To Boeing . A lot of people owed me a lot of money and I had just purchased 10 acres and built a show right beside Quest trucking in Cartersville , Ga. When the recession hit I could not give the property away and that is where most of my liquid money was in. So like a domino JLT Enterprises, Inc. fell too. All of my drivers and employees were paid and I got them jobs with a friend of mine that owns Taylor Transport in Cartersville , Ga. I set him up with UAC and thought we had a deal, but on half the money he said he thought that was all it's worth , he had about 35-40 trucks then now he has 160, so i learned a valuable lesson. And the rest is history . Now how I made my first million was in the garbage business , I had about 3000 customers and about 1000 roll off containers and after 1996 Olympics I sold BFI , started JLT in 1996 and then started in the roll off business again after none compete in 1999. I had my own inert landfill got stumps and had a $ million dollar grinder making mulch and selling to Home Depot and boiler fuel to big plants to burn. I had my own transfer station in the city limits of Dallas, Ga with a fleet of walking floors hauling to land fields . I sold the waste business out again in 2006 this time had more customers and about 30 roll off and waste trucks.Thats when I started the reefer division in JLT, bad , bad move. Fast forward to 09 and out of business . I got 3 new reefers and trucks and started hauling for old customers again, if you can't have at least 15 - 20 trucks it's hard to compete . I sold them all but one and here I am. You can't grow with out capital and after Dodd-Frank it's impossible to do that with bankruptcy . Now you can make fun , call me a dimb$@@ , and I don't really care, you know I like the golden rule, so when you came back with that smart ### remark, that's why I said what I said, and it pissed you off. But don't Bragg about making money and getting a new tarp system and then tell someone else because I don't know the lanes bs that I should get just a flat, I think everybody on here saw through that and I thought it was childish and funny . CJ you do a lot of talking on here and seem to know more about everyone else's business too, but I don't have to go thru you or anyone else to get to Mercer, all I was doing was my due diligence with Mercer, but all companies including mine, have the guys that I can't figure out for the world why they are in trucking and not the President or something, waste of talent I guess. I'm sort of like Trump, I want mess with if you don't mess with me, if you look back you can see I was polite and thanked you for all your help, but you wanted to keep on so here you go. Now I'm sure you gonna comeback with done macho text, but if everyone reads ALL the past texts on here they can see I was nothing but polite. Have a good day and good luck.
JLT

 

He was being honest about the 53 step conestoga, not being funny. You can do that if you want, but you're setting yourself up for failure, and that was cj's point. Every company runs different lanes. You haven't ran here yet, so you don't know Mercer's lanes. The point is, a 53 step conestoga is a highly specialized piece of equipment to be trying to put into a fleet that you haven't ran in before. Good luck finding loads. Once you have ran here, you can figure it out and make the change, but we are a flat company, that's where the money is and even our flat conestogas are not in high demand, a step just cuts it that much more, and a 53 makes it even less likely you will find loads.