Mercer teams and team freight?

Umm. What? Sorry if trying to teach you something is offensive and combative. Enjoy yourself. Good luck to you, but you might want to not attack the next guy that tries to help you. Later gator.

 

There was no assumption or condescending tone on my part. I'm blunt and I don't sugar coat, however I don't ridicule or insult or get smart ###, unless we become friends. I pick on my friends something fierce.

I'll try again to express the point I was trying to make. It's that important to stop caring about miles. It's all about net profit. Sometime this means running a 1500 mile run, but more often than not it's the 6 to 8 hundred mile runs that pay 2.20 and up that lead to the biggest bank account. The thing you need to look at, with each load, is how much money do you make after everything involved. Miles only get involved in the equation by how much they cost you to run them. That's it. in the long run, low miles high revenue adds up to the most income. your truck lasts a Lot longer, you spend a LOT less on maintenance, from less oil changes to less tires bought, to less brake wear, and so on.

No matter what you do, or who you lease to, i really do hope you succeed at earning your maximum income potential. It's in my best interest that every driver makes the most money possible. The less people pulling cheap freight the better off we all are.

Oh and I really really hate my cell phone and its stupid auto correct. No way I think I'm the best. That was supposed to be "next"

 

Keep a few things in mind, one, I don't run teams so I only have so much info to offer you. I do see team loads on the load board, but only pay so much attention to them, just as I do for rgn and double drop loads. I see them and think, well that looks neat and move on to something I can actually load.

There is lots of long coast to coast runs, but most of them are cheap. If I was in your position, I would get with mercer while at orientation and get clearance for the high value loads that require teams and satellite tracking. They don't pay as good as they once did but do pay a little more than regular freight. Unfortunately they aren't consistent, so look at them as a nice bonus when you see one. your meat and potatoes will be made on regular freight. it will be frustrating for you at first cause a lot of our freight is appointment only, they just are not gonna reschedule a crane for you so you can unload a day early. You could avoid this by not taking any loads requiring a crane to unload, but you will leave a lot of loads on the table if you do. Same goes for construction sites. The crew might not even be there to unload you until the original delivery date. And nobody loss or unloads on weekends. I've literally had two weekend puck up or deliveries in the last four years.

Imo, your best bet is to forget you are running team while booking loads. once you get dispatched on a load, call the agent and ask if you can deliver early. And one loaded call the delivery point of contact themselves. Half the time you probably can. That will allow those 900 mile loads to be delivered next day so you can start working the board to get the next good load.
Remember, even if you never get a team load, you will still net more money here than you have running 6k miles a week of cheap mega carrier box freight.

 

Read the mercer page that's 1118 pages long, that's the ones to read.

 

It's an unpublished book

 

R u still with Mercer r the non husband wife teams still staying busy

 

He is still here and a happy camper. I don't know a lot of teams, but the ones i do know say they are keeping busy and making decent money.