MY EXPERIENCE AS A Mercer FLATBED DRIVER

boardhauler, the man gave ya what he had. i can get the same info for my individual truck for each month or a year to date .

i dont think they do it at a mean or median avg. the person you talked to isnt stupid, they simply dont have the figures how you wished.

and the y guy is right , we work on percentage , not miles.

i see all this talk about miles, miles dont mean jack crap to me. what matters to me is revenue . i set a goal of 4000 gross revenue each week as a min. if i can do that driving 10 miles i am a very happy man. if i can do it with a 1000 miles , fine.

you see the point? you got to get in a most revenue for the least amount of miles mentality.

and i got to tell ya , if in talking to a mercer recruiter, who most agree are the most straightforward around, you have decided they are stupid, you might not fit in well.

look everyone is different some guys like running east west only and may avg. 1.50 for all miles. some who concentrate on short hauls at higher rates may avg 2.50 a mile. but one may run 130,000 miles a year, while the other may run 65,000 miles a year.

now if you are not stupid , you should easily know that with the avg figure he gave you , they will some higher than that and some lower than that. the main difference is in what a guys preference is, on how hard he wants to get after it, what areas he likes to run or wont run, etc etc etc.

what a smart man could take from that , is in a company with no forced dispatch, drivers completely pick their own loads, some dont work at all in winter months, and some dont work during the summer months, and some work 2 weeks and take off two, and so on and so forth, is that if a 2100 truck fleet can avg. 1.70 or so to the truck for all miles ran, somebody is doing something right.

see myself i get a good of loads well over 2 bucks a mile, why ? cause i will do some thigs some other s wont do, like taking a load that delivers at disney world at 3 am, 11,000 pounds and 2.47 a mile no tarp: like a load that you may have to sit on an extra day, but at 2.75 a mile i generated more revenue than if i had run that extra day at 2.00 a mile.

i also get some hazmat loads cause nobody above has hazmat or wont pull it,

the revenue here at times is directly a result of someones personal preferences.

in 33 years i have seen the ebb and flow, but i bet the mercer guys on this thread even though some may be ticked off a bit right now, would still tell you they aint going anywhere .


by the way , where are you at now and what is there avg for all miles and do they have a median avg?

 

you make 2 dollars for all miles, are ya running 20,000 miles a year or 140,000 miles a year?

 

see, there was a while back i did some short runs, 3 miles one way from the port in savannah to a jobsite. i did one and was asked if i would do more, i said yeah. did 3 more the same day, them babies paid 750 each to the truck, then i drove home 60 miles and smiled the whole way.

i love short loads.

another story, happened in md. unloaded in dover, de at the afb and ended up at the trailways t/s on us 301. me and another mercer drive who had just signed ona month before.

i saw two loads come up out of annapolis , md going to norfolk naval base, va 225 miles paying 1250 bucks ,no tarp , next day delivery. i took one and told the other guy about the other, he said it wasnt enough miles i said man its over 5 bucks a miles, he says its not enough miles and he turned it down, when i finished breakfast went out to truck and he told me on cb he had a load in baltimore than was 560 miles , next day delivery that paid 2.10 a mile , like 1180 dollars revenue.

absolute true story. which one of us made more money? he got his miles, but i got the money.

 

lol, but as you say you are just taking it easy. i think once the shock of the election wears off and and christmas is over, things will even out. heck if we made it the last 4 years, we can make it the next 4 years.