mercer transportation

yep, you'll miss a few, they only have to post for 5 min. i've been preselected 1st position, they lift the load for a short time and repost it, if you or a coortdinator miss the relist, someone else drives it away.

 

I have asked the same thing , of the coordinator and of her pod leader. the loads hit their screen first before they are actually running the board , a good many times they aren't set in stone, I have more of those loads cancel than ones on the load board.

heres a tip on that, when you look at the load board on laptop or smart phone, always check the matched load list and not just the advanced load tab, those loads that aren't on the board will often be on your matched loads list .

also , keep tabs on how the coordinator has your parameters set up on their screen, if they are set at 150 mile dh radius , you wont hear about the load 151 away.

I usually have the coordinator set at 175, while I check the load board further out.

also as soon as I am accepted on the load , I give it 5 minutes and call the agent to see why I haven't been dispatched and if its a good load, if they cant assure me its a good load or get me dispatched within 20 minutes, I usually tell em to take me off the load, cause while you are accepted , you cant take another load.

and I will add again another thing on being number 1 or 2 , when you get that high on the board it looks like many times your load has been stolen from you, besides guys at home swooping in at last minute in your area , you also have guys in other areas, who will see a load 400 miles away and decide to deadhead to it, if his unload time was earlier than yours , he just became number 1 .

and when I am looking at load board myself and commit to a load , I will my coordinator and ask if anyone is precommited that is ahead of me on the list, if so I will de -commit, but match myself and go on to the next load,

I don't beat dead horses or dwell over missed opportunities, same thing with pre booking a load ahead of time, I never look back in that area to see what I might have missed by booking early, I simply go on to the next one.

and another tip, my wife also checks the load board regularly for me, she calls about as many loads as my coordinator does.

my point, sometimes it looks like ya get screwed, and you may very well do get screwed, but don't dwell on it, go on to the next one.

I guess I feel like I get screwed less here than anywhere else I have ever been.

heres a tip if ya want to get screwed, pull containers out of the savannah port, do that and you can really say you got it put to you.

I guess what I am saying is I don't set back and wait, I get after it til the load gets dispatched and even then they cancel.

its really simple why its always the higher paying loads always cancel and never the cheaper ones. the shippers simply find someone to do it for a cheaper rate and "cancel" the load. which is basically why I never waste my time waiting on one of the loads that have "bid" up in the load number box

 

Maybe through orintation, they don't want everyone to know all the secrets as it took most of us a few months or longer to learn the above which gives the older guys some avantage.

Skateboad has told it very well, maybe this ain't his first job after all. Next he's gona wana a Mercer hat.

 

I think maybe its to get the guy into the system a bit and gradually work his way into it.

and I type to much, gonna put duct tape over my keyboard

 

So then do the coordinators see a board with considerably more loads? I'm a little blurry on the "5 minute" thing.

 

Reading how the "computer" board works is interesting stuff and alot of good info in here. When I was leased on all there was were the coordinator and the inbound truck sheets you'd find only in louisville. Be interesting to hear more of what went wrong with gr8whtshark, why he's more jaded, and how to avoid those kind of situations.

 

^^ 100% spot on. What's done is done and there's no reason to piss yourself off...

 

The way I see it as far as the "Good Ole Boys" club, If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

 

Currently dispatched on 10 loads, nine of them loaded now and picking up last one tomorrow. LTL is where the money is if you can work the board and agents to fill you up!

 

driver's first load was may 9th. don't know why he'd make it up?