List of Excuses not to take a load.

All the above has to pay good to be worth doing. Just because you pull a flatbed doesn't mean you should do all the above for little to nothing.

 

Why turn down load?

 

The only way to get good rates is to differentiate yourself from the herd.
If you are just getting work because of your rates then you at best will make a living.

I regularly turn down loads , not because of what they want us to do but for what they want us to do for free.

 

That's with any carrier about some low rates.

 

Dang and here I thought it was going to be a joke type thing. <sigh> oh well.

Add $100 for going to/through NYC or the San Francisco area. ( love to charge that for haveing to go a-r-o-u-n-d Atlanta.)

 

I don't have much issue with turning down loads until my coordinator is out and I have a temp in trying to push a 300 mile DH for a 250 mile load that wants 8 foot tarps on a porcupine type load. And then they act like they don't understand why you don't want it. Don't call me I'll call you. Maybe. Probably not. I'll just book myself until my bud Doug gets back.

 

Can you book you own loads at mercer?

 

yes as long as its on the mercer load board. you cant broker from outside sources if that's what ya say

 

What are the abbreviations on their load board. Some are pretty obvious, others make me try to think of words beginning with certain letters and leave me empty handed...
any of you mercer folk care to give a list of definitions?