mercer transportation

mercers is more like sni pre workflow. mercers board you can see the loads. it tell you loads that meet the restrictions you have set for yourself (dh mi, min rate etc) you can select a load to commit to but you wont get it untill it is offered to any guys ahead of you. on.sni you click on it and its yours.

 

it is hard because you have to book one before you can see if you can book the others. like i have said that is my one complaint about mercers system.

i will say though it usually wprks out pretty good pre booking loads. because most the guys are looking for a lpad NOW it seems. so when you want a good load but it is four days from now the guys usually will beturning it down because its too far off to wait. the worst times i have had finding loads here is once you deliver and dont have another load booked. once you are sitting it seems to get a lot harder.

 

that was the one.nice.thing about schneider. i could be at home and book a load out tomorrow and a load straigt back home before i ever left. here you need to be willing to be out a little while longer.


what wasnt nice was the $1.20/mi average and the hand holding. i went there to do.local stuff by my house but after.one.year when they called me and told me to stop at the yard for anual recertification i went not know wtf it was. when i got there and they sent me.out for a frigging road test!!! that was the end for me. it was bad enough doing a road test to get hired.on.but i will be ###### if i.am doing one every year. i hadnt taken a road test for anyone in in many many years before them amd i didnt appreciate being sent out with some kid who had a cdl 6 months to jusdge my driving

 

I've been staying midwest for that reason. It just doesn't quite pay enough to deadhead off the East coast back to OH. If you sit and wait, it could be awhile to find a profitable load going back. Meanwhile, your average daily net number is looking worse than the girl's selling you coffee at the TA.

I try to pu/del in midwest metro areas. Just ping pong back and forth until the freight picks up in Spring. I'm also thinking about parking it until March.

 

I was understanding it that you had to unload before you could book your next load?

 

No you do not have to be unloaded to book a load. You have to be unloaded to be on a waiting list for a load. If you're under a load, you will remain the last guy on the list. A lot of areas have no list, so you get the load. Or if your heading to an area and there's a load, that's a few days out, it goes down the list immediately, then's it's yours..
Once I'm under a load, I'm looking for the next load. There's been times, that I'll have 3 loads booked in advance. My coodinator like to keep on booking them. Myself, I don't like anymore than 2 at a time. You get very many booked and one goes bad, it creates problems for the other loads.

 

i dont like to get too far out either. and i also tend to sit a bit between loads because i get nervous about booking my unloads and reloads too close together. if i know i.have an 8am unload i will book a 3 or 4 pm reload but i wont book a noon. i like to be positive i can make it. you never want to get empty and not have a reload if you can help it though. sometimes you just cant help it

 

i have said it before. i still dont know how it all works but it does seem to work

 

LOL. I have been following you guys. And it sure has me confused!!!

(Which isn't hard to do anyway)