Looking at Mercer

I am currently looking to move a couple of our older trucks that we are replacing. I have narrowed it down to a few companies to haul flatbed. Mercer is one of those companies I am looking at. We will be moving at least three trucks this year. These trucks are being moved because of California EPA laws. They are good trucks just can't go to California after January 1st 2014. How is Mercer for someone who would run a small fleet with? We currently pay the drivers by the mile but I will be hiring flatbed drivers for this. Would it be better to pay by percentage or by the mile? When I drove flatbed years ago I was paid percentage. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have read a lot of threads on Mercer and it is actually at the top of my list to move these trucks too.

 

I am planning on flatbed. I haven't even looked at a step deck because I have hauled a step deck before and missed out on a lot of loads because of it. I am not even considering landstar. My conversation didnt go far with them when I told them we had 9 trucks and I wasn't going to bring all of them over there. They wanted all or nothing and that's not going to happen. We will not take trucks away from FedEx it is good steady money there running teams. Solo at FedEx isn't that great unless you have a dedicated solo run. All of our dedicated are team runs. So I am moving these older trucks to a company running flatbed.