mercer transportation

This was posted on the loadboard blog. Exact numbers and even how many got exempted that didn't have hookups , it was actually a handful, , it want anywhere nerve even a hundred. But you can run but you can't hide from De. 2017

 

No actually we are working

 

Dang that was desperate, that ain't the greatest pay there at all

 

LoL. You got me, those loads were a fluke & mercer is the best thing going & probably was a handful that quit because that's what management said, oh & the eld thing was a small part why I left & how do you know that I'm not exempt. Do you know any thing about what happened to Fikes? In the chance the mandate is struck down there will be a mass exodus from mercer.

 

I thought this thread was like 1400 pages long. What happened to them? I'm only showing 895 or so.

 

What happened to them, now that you mention that name I haven't seen any of them in a quite a while.

 

Fikes came out a few years ago and announced they were going to ELDs, I forgot the % of trucks that left them but it put them in a bind, so to make up for it the owner decided to buy trucks to make up- that didn't work either & it broke them. They also said they started worrying more about money & forgot about their people- which sounds like Louisville. I believe they were around for 75 years when this happened.

 

They went out of business. A division of P&S Transportation took over their operation. They lost a bunch of O/O when they went to elogs & they tried to make up the difference with company trucks. From what I understand they grew to much to fast & ran out of money.

 

Files went out of business. They had a lot of ops leave at 8ne time because they did an immediate ,all at one time transition to old. But in reality that only one piece of the puzzle. Quite a bit different than the long phase in time at mercer, basically what landstar is doing.

 

Man, you're making this difficult. I just was looking for a simple MD allows 9'11" and less to run 24/7 or night travel is only allowed with an escort or something like that. I will be running from Indy to DC (Bethesda), 68-70-270 basically.