mercer transportation

How much are you guys paying for insurance. Raymond told me $535 covers trailer and cargo. He also said physical damage is usually $26 per $10k you truck is worth. So that leaves me with liability, bobtail and workman comp. Thanks for your input. I'm paying cash so I wanna make sure all ducks are in a row.

 

ok, knew that one , but any recruiting as you say is redirected to mercertown.com. that's more of a site for potential customers.

 

well I decided about 5:00 pm yesterday to change a seal in steering gearbox . it got dark, I am old, half blind and its hard to hold flashlight, fish out a retaining ring, drill a hole in a seal, screw in a screw and yank a seal out and install a new one. must thanks to a landstar driver parked next to me who participated in this repair. I told him he would fit in at mercer. really nice gentleman. but I am up and not leaking.

I made a note to myself , in winter months it gets dark early, don't start repairs at 5:00

 

How can you love mercer even more?

- how about saving 1.27 per gallon at the pump?
yes, I just filled up last night at flying J at 1.98!!
245 gallons of savings!

 

I paid $1.83 a gal the other day. I wasn't sure what to do with myself. Lol

 

It's been a while since I've posted but I got my application for Mercer last night keeping my fingers crossed

 

I think you got a bit confused, the 535 covers trailer and physical damage for the trailer. the 26 bucks is correct, you will need bobtail 20 bucks a month. cargo and liability are paid by mercer , and we aren't required to have workmans comp , its optional.

 

Best of luck to you. I'm new here, but I think you will like it.

 

I beleive we do actually pay for cargo insurance thru 1% of each load before the they take their 25percent so it amounts to us getting approx. 74.22 percent. Not monthly or weekly, just per load. Workermans comp only required if you have a hired driver.
Liabilty is almost always paid for by the carrier wherever you work, because liabity falls on the carrier when pulling a trailer commercially.

 

that's actually a surcharge on the insurance , at landstar and other places its 2 per cent. they also require either w/c or one of those occupational accident policies.