mercer transportation

Coming in from Indianapolis on the 27th or 28th to begin orientation, was told to be there a day early if I can to get everything set up with tablet and drug screen. How hard is it to get to the yard for orientation? I have never been to Louisville before

 

we use efs cards, I have my settlements put on there, you can go to the efs website and put in checking accounts you want to transfer money to, as many as you like, if you do the transfer by 5 pm , its credited to your checking account the next morning. I have five accounts I can transfer to. even got my kids on there in case those jokers need money.

when you load you can get about half advanced to you to pay for fuel, its not a fuel card where they deduct the fuel amount from settlements.

 

you pay the $1.75 anytime funds are loaded to your card, you'll see it on your settlement statement. While at orientation it is a good idea to talk to truck pay and arrange for your settlement statements to be emailed to you, unless you want to wait a few days for them to show up at home. You will know as soon as a load settles and see what will go into your bank, and what is in your reserve. Also you could catch a mistake in your pay but that has been exceptionally rare. At one company I maybe had one load a month paid properly, at Mercer I think I've only questioned three loads and in each case the agent had "changed" the pay. I kept screen captures of my dispatched load showing the pay I agreed to and it was immediately corrected in each case.

 

Ok CJndaTruck I gotcha. Thanks. Makes more sense now. I guess my next question is do any of you guys have a business setup. My mom who is a CPA was saying I should setup a LLC or S-Corp. I kinda thought it would be overkill for a 1 truck show and even more so for the fact that I'd be leasing on to a carrier. She was saying that in case anything happens then they couldn't come after my personal assests. But how would that work since I'll be running under Mercer authority. I know trucking is a whole other animal from the regular business world.

 

So how does that work that work not being a fuel card and not deducting from settlement

 

That's where the extra 1.75 comes in at for each upload on the card. Makes sense to use it at a minimum if at all.

 

you'll want to do at least a llc by your second year

 

U will have to up load on to it if u want the fuel discount I only use mine for fuel and def that is why I let it build to $3000 then stop loading on it till it drops back to around a $1000

 

Also if you transfer funds off the efs card to a bank or write a check off it there are charges for that to like roshea I belive those changes add up in a year just like getting 1% back on everything I buy at Walmart in a year

 

remember those fees are tax write offs...keep track of everything.