mercer transportation

Yep Mercer has some really crappy rates. I'm loading today, 1300 plus miles at 2.31/mile. Next weeksis already booked up. Will be just over 4700 $$ on 2 loads, 1700 loaded miles, and just under 500 empty. Some #### cheap freight right there.

 

When I came here granted last summer Mercer was throwing money at me if I finished a month under $20,000 I was trying to... The beginning of this year was extremely difficult falling fuel prices and a slow first quarter was tough and step rates a starting to increase it gets old staring at flat rates some paying $1.00 more than step, but here in the last 2 weeks things seemed to pickup for me a few $4.00 & $5.00 rates help out a lot

 

Thats great. I've done well here consistently. My point is that certain loads that were go to's in certain places and you always know a phone call and it's there have dropped and that that particular agent simply said why pay x when now I have an influx of guys who will haul it for y. Simply anecdotal and doesn't refer to anything you're doing or may do.

 

lol, look at your name, VANgtransport, rotflmao, van man was reference to that , it makes no matter what you pull. and in an overall picture there isn't much difference in rates out of a facility, sure every now and again a rate may up when someone has forgot something or something needs moving asap, but overall its pretty much the same.

the rates as a whole overall are down a bit because of a lesser fuel surcharge, I don't know where you read into my post they seem to fluctuate wildly on a daily basis. I am simply stating that out of that facility in Eastman they has been a steady downward movement over the last several years.

that's a fact, I am a bit familiar with that neck of the woods, I was born at the hospital in Eastman. I have somehow survived 35 years in this business, so I have figured out a thing or two about rates.

I also haven't seen loads on mercer board bounce around like you are saying. I see cattle call rates from 3 pl go up as the week goes by.

you also seem to confuse me with the ones who think the sky has fallen and rates have crashed, I still avg what I have for the last 4 years here, I just have to work at it a bit more selectively.

you also may not realize several of us posting here on the mercer thread have had our authority , for many years. I simply got old, decided to cut back and quit screwing around trying to keep 2 of my own and 6 leased on guys loaded every week. I simply wanted to cut back back.

several of us have been there and back and got a box full of t-shirts.

myself I have no problems or complaints about anything at mercer, it ebbs and it flows , its a long race, not a sprint, my old behind will be there at the finish

 

hey you always got the guy who blames everyone else for his troubles, but never blames the guy who looks back at him in the mirror for the stupid decisions he makes

 

I don't think anyone said anything about crappy rates. I can say 2 weeks ago I loaded for $2.70/ mile, which is true, but it means nothing unless it's in line with the rest of the market for that lane.

 

do you think that agent cut rates just because he feels like it, or its the market around him with an influx of trucks, the agents gets paid a percentage of the billed charges why would he cut rates that are billed??? this is like the old deal about brokers screwing everyone, no one ever seems to thinks shippers tell folks what they will pay.

 

spyder I am with you, you just have to work your deal, be smart, make the right decisions, no one said it was going to be handed to us on a silver platter.

 

You are misunderstanding something with How Mercer works. If you are leased to Mercer, the agent can not decide to give the load to a cheaper truck. The only time the agent gets to play with the money is when brokering to an outside carrier. And they can only broker our when every single available Mercer truck declines the load.

Or maybe you are trying to stay the customer has gone with a cheaper carrier?

 

Hey i haven't any idea how an agent pays. I thought shipper paid x amount to move the load to the agent then they pay the least to move it. Don't know, don't care, wherever the influx of trucks, ie supply and demand hits it trickles down. At the end of the day it pays what people do it for. I hope everyone makes a fortune.