mercer transportation

Anyone have any opinions on what I should do over the next 3-4 months? My truck will be down while it gets rebuilt. I've been off a week and I'm going crazy. I spent a ton of $$$ a few months ago and didn't foresee this extended vacation coming. I've looked at rental trucks but Ryder and Penske want a 1000/week plus 20cents a mile which is outrageous. I got my truck payment pushed back for 3 months so that's real good. I'm fine on money now but it's going to get real tight in a few months. So I must get a job... Just not sure who would hire me temporarily.

Not to thrilled about going back to being in a company driver position... I've had my own trucks for the past 7 years

 

Try PacLease. They are usually less expensive and easier to deal with. I've leased trucks from them several times in the past. They are at a KW or Pete dealership.

 

How about working for one of the fleet owners at Mercer? I'm thinking they pay 30-35 percent.

Wow Why is it going to take 3-4 months?

 

Yes, mr huds. I'm back baby. Picked up the truck friday afternoon. I don't have the total bill yet, but they let me put some money down on so I could get rolling. So far its running very well. The vibration is almost gone. Their trick of drilling a hole in the slip yoke then installing a zerk and filling it with grease seems to have worked. All of the internal parts of the engine looked very good as well. So far so good.

 

if assuming it was the other guys fault, why not sue them for downtime?

 

Talk to contractors relations. Driving for one of the fleet owners here, not much would have change for a few months.

 

Honest opinions - Flatbed or Step Deck with Mercer? I am in Van now and I am planning to go over to Flatbed mid October. I want to go to Canada, I have a HAZMAT and TWIC card for ports. I know this is when FB slows down, but I have done FB during the winter before and it is not a big deal to me (As long as it is not Ice Road Trucking LMAO!!). Any Feedback?

 

A law suit can take years to be heard and you have to make yourself available for the court dates costing you even more time off work that is not recoverable by a suit. There is no guarantee of recovering anything at the end and if you do you hand a pretty good chunk of it over to some lawyer. A court will also want to see some evidence that he did his best to mitigate damages by seeking another means of getting a paycheck.

Law suits are rarely worth it to anyone but the lawyer.

 

So what are you going to do with the dry van? <BR>Why would you want to change to flat going into the winter?<BR><BR>I'd recommend going flat vs step. I bet you'd be surprised how much the step will hurt you in the winter. Right now the freight for a step is half as much as flat.

 

his insurance company would handle that, its no different than getting a rental car after a 4 wheeler wreck. it wont take years.

and you have evidently not ever participated in a worthwhile lawsuit. you hire a lawyer on a contingency, he gets a percentage of what he wins. you don't have to be there for court dates. I know this. had a drunk hit one of my trucks in key west. I had progressive ins. the drunk sued us with one of the tv lawyers that advertise. I countersued . 4 and 1/2 years later I got a check in 5 figures . never had to be at any court date.

most of them work on 33 per cent, 66 per cent of something is way better than 100 per cent of nothing.