Looking for an ex Mercer driver

I glide 47 · Oct 24, 2019

JonJon78 said: ↑

Several reasons why I left Mercer.

I like to run short loads in the Ohio valley area and those loads here have all been washed up. Too many Mercer trucks and just not enough of those loads anymore.

$1.83 may seem good to you but for me that's terrible. Shorter loads should come with a much higher RPM than that as you arent getting a big gross number like you do pulling for longer run miles. Not to mention a lot of what I do is heavy loads of steel and aluminum that require tarps. The way to make it work here with doing shorter loads is to limit the deadhead miles and I've been finding myself having to deadhead further and further for those loads which just isnt making sense, business wise. $1.83 pulling a flat in 2019 doesn't cut it.

Way to many loads here are simply copy and paste from CH Robinson load board. I'm tired of giving up 25% of my revenue for that. Puts me in a tough spot to not haul those loads because then it's either sit or deadhead.

I live between Indianapolis and Chicago. I absolutely cannot stand the Chicago area agent that Mercer has. Lots of shady tactics and crappy shippers with loads going to horrible reloading areas with that agent in Chicago. The Indy agency isnt that big and has limited freight especially this year, so leaving out of the house is more than a hassle I would like to deal with anymore. Not to mention a couple of the shippers I liked loading out of in my home area Mercer has lost those accounts for more reasons than one.

That brings me to another point. They seem to continuously lose more and more customers here because of the "We hire anyone" business model that they have seemed to go with which a lot of the truthful agents and coordinators at Mercer will tell you. And for that fact a lot of the truthful drivers here that dont run around with blinders on should be able to tell you. Seems to be a problem that continues to get worse.

I could continue to go on but I'm not going to. Atleast you get somewhat of a idea why I left.
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Pretty much the same reasons I left about 7 months ago but I pulled a van,

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