mercer transportation

The contractor you're working for has given your coordinator specific instructions on where he wants his trucks to run whether he admits it to you or not. Just get your own truck and you wont have to put up with this stuff anymore.

 

You might've had a chance till he marked it refused depending on your position number. If you was in the top three. Otherwise he marked it refused to save time to get to the next load.
When there is no chance on the load, it is best to turn it down to move the system quicker.
Little complicated but works

 

I can go wear ever I want. I am planning on a truck purchase next year

I was number 4 on the list.

I don't want him to ever mark me as refused if it meets my requirements. $2.55 on 1200 miles fits all occasions , especially when I see many 40' containers going with in 10 miles of the house. I wonder how many other loads I have been passed on due to my coordinator. I feel like he just lifted $1000+ out of my pocket.

 

If you can make $1,000 off that load tell your guy I need a job ill park my truck for that kind of money....

 

No you didn't. That's why I got out way to much favoritism going on. Refused on a load you never had a chance to get but there are people here that will tell you it's your fault. Lol. Just drink some more cool aid.

 

Would have been more if I owned the truck.

 

rusty as someone posted above, it many time just makes things faster, if you commit to a load and you are at number 8 for instance, and the number 2 guy has already committed to the load, you aren't going to get it anyway, so by putting refused or expired it helps you and the coordinator go on to the next load. and come on rusty you didn't stay here long enough to nowhere near learn the system.

you simply spout the tired old speech of those who couldn't navigate it here. and even if you show refused you can go on the loadboard yourself and match or commit to it. you could almost bet in BD's situation if a load was paying 2.55 on 1200 miles , 1, 2, or 3 would have taken it, aint no one in their right mind passed that up sitting at 1 , 2 or 3 , think about it.

you must assume the 3 guys ahead of you were dummies, and fact is at position #4 on a load paying that you had no chance at all.

just like today when I snagged an EMPTY 20 foot container paying 2.47 to the truck on 870 miles numbers 2 ,3,4,5 and 6 never stood a chance in heck.


see, you got to learn which board position gets you a chance at a load. say you're # 5 , sitting in Louisville and a no tarp 2.40 a mile load comes up weighing 10,000 pounds. you don't stand a chance in hades, but you can bet everyone in the drivers room down to 50 will commit to it. while there also on the board is a 2. 50 a mile 4 foot tarp weighing 20,000. it will sit there like a plum. cause when the others are commited to a load they are locked in for a bit and you can waltz right in and get it even if you at position number 12. you gotta learn that, if not , you will be sitting there once again saying , THEY PLAYIN FAVORITES.


ya spend more time whining than paying attention to the old dogs, you worried more about truck numbers than learned how to work things to your advantage.


you also have to learn how to read the weights of the loads, that comes with experience, example a while back I am in new caney, texas loads comes up to Alabama out of Cleveland,tx very short deadhead, I look and it says its a load of aluminum irrigation pipe weighing 48,000 , aint no way to load that much on a flat, load only paid 1.75 but I was out of texas and in Alabama on Monday, I was there with 6,000 pounds of pipe.

I checked my log yesterday on jan 1 at the start mileage , and checked it by todays speedometer, so far this year I have a total speedometer miles of 75,000 miles since jan 1, my gross to the truck is over twice that in dollars. you can keep whining and crying and the rest of us will keep taking the candy right from under your nose.

 

well at 2.55 x 1200 that's about 3100 and if hes at 30 per cent , 930 is close enough. the part he aint figuring is sitting cali for a week and pullin one back for a 1.40 to the truck.

its loses all the shine after that, BD don't know it but he probably got done a real big favor.

 

Ya I missed that my truck or someone else's I wouldn't pull the trigger on that.

 

I found out my coordinator refused that load. As of yesterday, there were 65 Mercer contractors in the area. 8 40' container loads going straight to Louisville for about $1.80. I have no idea if I had a chance, but they were all high cube that would have fit nicely on my step I've been here since February and haven't used my container locks yet.

All those loads are now gone.

Everything else is about $1.55 going as far as St. Louis.

I'm trying to get home from Iowa, but it isn't looking very good