mercer transportation

I was one of those new guys with no open deck experience. It comes down to the driver and I've seen both older and newer numbers with screwed up securement. I've pointed it out to newer and older drivers to no avail and been thanked for the help by others. I have also taken tips from newer and older guys.

I had one guy ask me if I'd mind taking advice because a lot of guys aren't willing to accept help. He seemed almost scared to ask if I would mind. It didn't even directly relate to securement, it was just a tip of how to secure some extra strap.

I've also seen some pretty rough looking equipment with lower numbers also. As much as someone whose been doing this a long time, you, would like to place blame on newer guys, it just isn't so. Again, it comes down to the driver, whether he's a long or short timer.

 

None of that looks terrible to me, but the guys at the scale houses have told me Mercer is in the 90% range and that is terrible.

 

I think an all oo company will always be at a disadvantage in csa because of the rank being a comparison to all companies in the size class. Other companies can just make a change to fix whatever keep coming up but places like Mercer have a harder time with it. Log violations used to be the killer here so the went to elog before the mandate and look at the backlash that came from it.

 

A lot of bigger companies require drivers to pull through an inspection bay everytime they come into a terminal.

Maybe they need to start requiring additional inspections here besides the 2 that they currently do.

 

Plate numbers do not correspond to truck number

Yes it does come down to the driver. Not all new owners are bad or doomed to fail. But it is a simple fact of trucking that the vast majority of them do fail. When money gets tight fixing things gets put off.

 

When new hires come in the Illinois plate number that they recieve continously gets higher...

So yes it does.

 

Plates turned in by guys that leave get reused.

 

Right, so everyone of those violations for OOS must be a new guy with and old guy that quits plate...

Gotcha

 

I didn't say that. We don't know how many are new guys and how many are old. You can't base that on a plate number alone

 

When I came to Mercer I already had 30 years driving, but being a "new guy" at Mercer must have meant I didn't know anything. Okay.