mercer transportation

Called mercer this morning. They poured out my shot of koolaid.

If anyone around here gets the call to pick up my trl please be gental with the rate. Lol

 

Well you know what rates have been for mercer you should be ok $1.25/mile......LOL!!!

 

Probably will pay more than some loads.......... LOL

 

I am not paying anything. They have my escrow money. If they want more then that they will be added to my impending bankruptcy filing.

 

I can't seem to find anything on this, so can one of the "kool-aid drinkers" tell me what percentage of the "mercer loads" on the mercer board are actually just from agents sitting at their kitchen table scanning Internet Truckstop n putting the load on as a "mercer" load.

 

i couldnt tell ya dude, and i am the kool-aid king. as long as it pays a rate i am happy with and agree to i dont give a rats behind where it comes from, who has it, where they got it, how much they are making on it, whether its doubletriplequaddruple brokered, whether he is sitting on the crapper, sitting at the table, naked watching porn. as long as i get my rate i desire, i dont concern myself with such matters.

i know what my operational costs are to the penny. i know the rate i desire to be happy . so why does it matter where the load comes from??? are you one of the ones who worry about what everybody else is getting? and how muck the broker is making? instead what you are getting?

 

True, but I would not pay 25% for something I could get for $30 a month.

 

where there again is an oversimplistic not well thought out reply. you actually would not get all that for 30 dollars a month now would you?

in order for that 30 dollars to be useful, you would have to have authority, the required liability insurance, the cargo insurance, belong to a drug testing consortium, main a set a dot compliance files to include ,even for a owner driver, logs , driver qulaification and on and on. you will also have to invoice for payment, possibly give up 3 per cent for factoring to get paid quickly, and on and on. and the ifta tax filings, ordering tags , and on and on.

i have authority, inactive , had it for 15 or so years and hauled exempt commodities for several years before that. i know full well that in reality you arent giving away 25 per cent at all. some seem to see it that way, but never actually figure the actual dollar cost and difference there might be.

couple that with say normal broker fees and the difference becomes even smaller.

here i dont even have to pay ifta, or file it. and after i scan paperwork, i am paid within hours. i really dont miss the days of chasing money or paying 1 or 2 per cent just to get paid quickly

as i stated with previous posts, its whats you end up with after all expenses are paid that matters. to many are worried about giving away "25 per cent" instead of worried about profit.

so as i said , i am only concerned with meeting my goals for revenue and making profit from that.

to do it right and survive all that would be a necessity.



next batter step up to the plate

 

Guess it doesn't matter what the load starts at, long you get $1.25 a mile, huh, skateboardude?

 

If leased operators are willing to pull brokered loads from agents then agents will feed them brokered loads as it is a lot easier then getting and keeping their own customers. The companies rates will continue to drop and they will become O/O mills to fill up the ranks.