mercer transportation

$750 off my plates yay

 

Do you guys know what flatbed and van rates are averaging a kilt over there and is that before or after mercer gets their cut. Thx

 

The pin only keeps the stake from bouncing out of the picket. Nothing more. If you chain it or not depends on the load. It never hurts to chain them tho.

 

That has nothing to do with Mercer. As a business, you have to make x amount daily to break even. That's paying yourself and all expenses within your business, but no profit. That is in any kind of trucking no matter whose name is on the door.

Mercer breaks it down to x amount owed for deductions per day. So yes, it will pile up if you sit and are inactive with your funds. But any of that is hardly Mercer's fault.

 

I don't think you're offending anyone in here. Mick offered constructive criticism about your attitude and you reply with snark and misplaced conceit. To which more replied about your attitude which beget more snark and so on and so forth. It was almost as if they were trying to help you.

But hey I'm as green here as you are so what do I know.

 

@TruckerPete1990 OK buddy, I always talk about owing you dinner. Well forget that, you owe me for life......

4-5 weeks ago Pete passes me on the highway. Gives a shoutout and I break down a few miles later. Get a sensor changed for like $370 bucks and back on the road so I figure “No big deal, I didn’t get Pete’s bad luck after all.” Wrong! I go down make my pickup on a load from NC to NJ, like 700 miles for $2200 easy peasy. I get a couple hundred miles and boom truck dies again with all the bells and whistles. I limp to Chesapeake, VA (my second pick was there and get to the shop. 4 1/2 weeks later I get my truck back (Thursday).

Long story short. Injector #1 was overfueling. Blew something out. Had to replace the injector, turbo, the pdf and def (including the one box) and everything aft of that (filters and stuff). Total bill? $17k (not including hotel). Western Star covered the whole repair (including the one box) under warranty. Of course I was still out 4 1/2 weeks of rev. But ask me and WS treated me right.

So Thursday I call and put myself back on the board. I haven’t even looked at it in 5-6 weeks. Coordinator calls with some crap loads. I tell him I’m not hurting for $ even tho I’ve been out for over a month (and ironically had to cover 2 Truck payments as timing would have it). He says OK and while we are still talking my favorite agent calls when I’m in VA. I swap calls and here “Hey CJ looks like you are back up?” After a little #### chat I’m asked if I can grab a load from a customer I love heading to MN? I don’t even ask the rate and say yes (now it’s a conestoga load and I load there a lot so I had a good idea of what the pay will be, wouldn’t recommend someone new here doing that). Hang up, call MN agent and ask her if she can get me a load out of another place that likes conestoga heading south for Monday. She laughs and ask if I had anyplace in mind. VA of course! She says how’s $2.33 a mile? Works for me. So that’s done, I check the details of the load going up there. About of 2.8k. The load coming back 2.2k. I love conestoga life.

 

you mad bro?

need to put your big girl pants on?

get back in the kitchen and make sandwiches.

 

$1275.00 for me...

 

Oh, as I caught up on my reading someone was talking about conestoga freight in WA. When I first bought this I lived up there. I didn’t have a big problem. Tons of military freight. Don’t know where you live but Renton had counter tops, Kalma coils, Kent I would grab crates, Tacoma I’d get different stuff out of ports (no premium for being a conestoga there tho.). Also Spokan area I would get signs (like storefront signs) or I could always skip over into ID and grab stone (heavy as it was). Most ran to CA and if all you wanted to do was run I5 you could do fine. I usually ran to SoCal as I have a customer there that pays well heading all points east. Trick is learning the customers. I will say it’s “easier” just running flat. But I wouldn’t switch back for nothing.

 

Lmao you think don't sit at Mercer.. The system isn't desonnde to hurry hurry and go..