mercer transportation

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Ummmm how can u prebook when you go by positioning... And that Van guy isn't telling the whole story.. The rates aren't as high and you'll sit between loads no matter what because there are so many guys on the Van side that have Quality trucks who will take anything to get that payment paid everyweek. So if u end up position 4 and up you'll sit for a day or take some be to get moving... The customer base for flats is waaaaaay more extensive then vans... Flatbeds can prebook cause u guys have the freight to... Because I can commit to a load right now and chances are high that I won't get it by the morning...I came from a place where you had to prebook or you didn't run so I know all about prebooking.. I'm a master at it... It's not that simple here

 

Hi folks are any of the Canadian Mercer guys on here. Im looking for some thoughts on flat and eastern. Canada by the way you all sound like good people overall Mercer is impressive from my point of view

 

That's funny, I just got off the phone with a van guy that has his next three loads prebooked. You need to adjust something if you believe you can't prebook. And I look at the board and see more van freight then flat freight everytime I look. Also it's seems you don't truly understand how the board works. And if your trying to book a load on a Sunday? Umm nobody is in the office. And it's freight that nobody wanted.

I strongly suggest you just try something different. If others manage to prebook and keep rolling I'm sure you can too.

 

What part of east coast? Nb, NS. Eastern Pq.? Very little freight coming out of the east coast/maritimes. You would have to go as far as Quebec city or vauldray(not sure on the spelling) and its hit or miss? For those runs .
Ontario you have Kingston, Whitby, cambridge, those are pretty steady . Its steel, auto parts and you will have to be able to scale 46 to 48 k . Lot's of short stuff with a couple of long ones . longest get snapped up pretty quick.

 

Maybe I missed this before but is there any negotiation on rates if its just a little less then you'd do it for, can you ask for more?

 

Not to beat a dead horse but looking at the board there is 3-6x as many van loads as there are flats in the next three states I'm loading in, so how can there not be enough loads on the board to prebook? Everytime I look at the van loads I think about switching over. Rates run a little less then flats but not much.

 

You can ask , call the agent tell theme you need a little more for dead head or where it's going its tuff to find freight out of there. The worse thing that can happen is they say no and you move on. Just be polite about it.

 

If the agent needs to move a load there can be. Usually they will pay deadhead or something so they don't have to change the actual rate.