Mercer Transportation

Well guys.....Ive read this thread from start to end. I am not here to say any one person is right or wrong......BUT I can say for a fact that Mercer DID screw Deputy881 on his trailer. They sold him a defective trailer and would not make it good. I can say this because I know him and saw the trailer the day the problem occurred.

I leased to Mercer the same time Deputy881 did. I leased a step deck from them, spent a lot of time sitting waiting on a load. Changed to flat bed and started getting more loads. I left Mercer as the oil industry hit south Texas hard and there was a lot of money to be made locally. When I turned in my trailer, which was like new still, Mercer did not pay me the escrow money held on the trailer. They said it was to replace tires, brakes ect. I know for an absolute fact that the tires and brakes were perfect on the trailer and the next person got the trailer with no other work being done to it. As a matter of fact there was over 300.00 of upgrades I did to the trailer that remained with it.
Would I go back to Mercer.........possibly. BUT I would not lease purchase one of their trailers.
Thoes of you who are there now and having a hard time.......you need to learn the areas to stay in to make money. It would be a great benifit to get a laptop with wireless internet. Keep an eye on the load board and make sure your parameters are up to date. My origional load cor. had me starving. I was then assigned to Tim Allen. He stayed on top of his game and I almost always had a load on the trailer and two in the pipeline. Did I make the money Mercer claimed I would be. NO. But I wasnt starving.

Be safe.

 

Driver told me last year he made 323,000.00 with mercer
sound pretty good to me if true?

 

Do you actually believe that???
The 6 months I was with Mercer I only did 71802.34. And I was only home for 3 days.
The only time I made the type of money that driver told you he made with Mercer was in 2009 hauling cars (10 car car hauler) with an average rate of 4.25 per mile. That was before swift, Waggoner’s (sp), foreigners, hot shotters, and others started cutting rates!!

Years ago I might believe stories such as this, but when someone tells me these days that they make that type of money, I ask if they were hauling LEGAL freight.......LOL

Not to say it is impossible, Im sure there may be some out there doing it. But I doubt it is being done with a flat bed. And Mercer is a flat bed company. Sure, they have RGN's flat beds, drop decks, and now van freight, but Mercer's majority of freight is in their flat beds.

Dupty881.....was good talking to ya again today. Be safe out there!!!

 

The only way I can see someone doing that here is if they are a team running high security military freight. No way that could be done running off the load board.

 

I never said I believed it, it's just what he presented to me.
I calculated it out over 6000 a week every week of the year.
Now just about the average of anyone else I talk to claim in area I'm
more inlcined to believe. The best guess I would have is the averge flatbedder makes gross between 125,000 and 180,000 a year.
With that said it all boils down to how much profit you make per mile?

 

What it really boils down to is how much you hang onto. You going no where if you spend $10.00 for every $7.00 that you make. Mercer's average is $144,000 per truck per year.

 

If you spend $10 for every $7 that you make you will indeed be going some where, BROKE!