Y'all have now!

I'm out of here for the time being. Have to go get my stuff together & head north to Louisville, KY. Going to go lease onto Mercer. Orientation is Monday & Tuesday.... Hopefully it will be a quick & painless transition.

I'll have my laptop with me, but not sure if wifi will be available...

 

####... I left in such a hurry Sunday night... I forgot to finish the title of this thread. It's suppose to say Y'all have fun now...

Anyhow... I'm sitting up here in Louisville, KY. 2 days of orientation so far & we are finishing up in the morning. As for all the paperwork.... It seems to be very similar to nearly every other company I've been with.

We were suppose to have lunch with our load coordinator's today... But just as my luck at home with the ladies, mine stood me up. She had a doctor's appointment & I would agree that would be more important then a dumb ol' truck driver. So instead of meeting with her.... I went & had lunch with notarps and his coordinator.

They have a on-site 3rd. party repair truck. I do recommend that if Mercer's inspection shows something that needs to be repaired... Then call around to other service shops before agreeing to have the on-site 3rd. party handle it. I'm not saying that they do bad work... I just don't agree with the $100 they charged me to put the headache rack on my truck. I'm sure it could have been done cheaper elsewhere but didn't know I had that option until afterwards.

So far I'm impressed, but still a little nervous on whether the revenue that I'd like to see is here. Every driver I have spoken to here says that they've been here many years ranging from 2 to 15. I also asked these drivers if they'd share their average revenue per mile with me. I had a few say numbers such as $1.75 per mile, but the majority told me $1.40 per mile. That is a number closer to what I was figuring the average would be. I did see a load today on notarps coordinator's computer that paid $656.00 to the truck, and the loaded miles were 21... He dispatched that load while we were sitting there.

 

$100 may be the minimum at the trucks stops & such... It also could be in certain regions. But I have a business card in my hand for a shop just a few blocks down the road that specifies their shop rate at $65.00/hr.

Yes I could have done it myself... But it was done while I was sitting in orientation & at that particular time I had other matters to deal with. I ran into a electrical gremlin on my Peterbilt... So myself & another driver spent last night trying to find that little rascal... I can't take the credit though, the other man found the gremlin & I removed him after he was found.