mercer transportation

I like the way it works because unless a guy is trying to connect a load to a better area it's typically yours. Down in Florida nobody's running local runs except guys home who's bored. I usually get those gravy runs outta Orlando heading to south FL.

 

@mtoo did I read somewhere that you run straight pipes no muffler? I couldn't remember the policy and waited to late to call earlier

 

Long Island is going to go past a lot of us, me included

 

NYC don't bother me as long as I got a early delivery time which was 4 am on this load. Paid $2700 to run up there outta Florida I couldn't pass it up. Luckily Spyder was out west at the time

 

No, I'm old. I like a quite truck. As far as Mercer is concerned, they wouldn't care if a truck had straight stacks or not.

 

It was probably 25 years ago, My wife and I were sitting in Seattle. It was close to Christmas, and a team load came up going to JFK. they had it up to $5000. I told them, when I get hungry enough I might go to the city. We bounced home to Montana for Christmas. And I have never been hungry enough yet to go.

I'm glad there are guys like yourself that will go. And I'm glad your paid well to do it.

$5000 twenty five years ago was a bunch of $

 

I'm sure back then that was a for break the bank load. I have a NE policy when I run up there which is it has to pay over 2.00 per mile and over $2000. Otherwise I ain't going. I had to explain that to my buddy at Landstar because he was debating on taking a load to NY for 1.80 to the truck and I said that ain't enough for me. I stand firm in that.

 

If you can stand north Jersey and the GW bridge, going to Long Island is a piece of cake. I used to multi-stop deliver new furniture to every major city in the NE for a few years, and I'm a southern boy. First trip ever to NYC was around 15 stops in 3 boroughs and half way out Long Island.

 

I've been doing it down here for the entire time I've been at Mercer. But the code is not a z here. I spent my first summer at Mercer just running local stuff while the kids were home. was nice to only spend a couple nights out on the road the entire summer. Coffee to think of it, that was my downfall. The first six months I ran my ### off and netted something like 80 grand. Took it easy and stayed local over the summer and haven't worked hard for more than two weeks since. mercer made me lazy!

 

I could of been home three months and wouldn't touch that for 2 a mile. But when I'm up around cinci and they are paying 2700 on the 700 miles to Brooklyn, I'm too greedy to pass it up, and bounce back empty for another. Repeat till they are all gone. but from Florida? Nah, I'll bounce to Brunswick or Savannah and get a load to ky paying over two/mile.